blah

you can't express a full spectrum of emotion on blogs or you're sad whiney and pathetic

but i miss rachie and betsy.

anyways:

passover was tonight, and it went well. we had an all about passover event before and my job was to tell people about the orange on the seder plate. so: once upon a time in the 1980s a few students at oberlin put a bread crust on the seder plate, to say there was as much room in judaism for lesbians as there is for a crust on the seder plate. since bread is forbidden on passover, this sent kinda mixed messages, and some lady switched it out for an orange, that stood for jewish lesbians, gay men, and other marginalized groups. she liked the orange because it showed inclusive communites are the most "fruitful" and the seeds could be spit out the same way we ought to repudiate prejudice in our community. another explanation says some dude said "a woman belongs on the bimah (in the front of the temple) like an orange belongs on the seder plate" and the orange was placed on the seder plate to show support for the changing role of women in judaism.

ok, i better do some hw tonight.