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Many Paths Up the Mountain
In college, I was a Jewish representative on the student Multi-Faith Council. I have always been fascinated by other religious traditions, cultures and belief systems, while feeling strongly rooted and passionate about my own.
Like many in the more liberal branches of religion, I do not believe that Judaism is the one right religion, but rather, that there are multiple ways of living righteously and of reaching God or a higher power.
I picture a large mountain, with many paths up to the summit. Some paths meander by mountain lakes. Others offer wonderful vistas of the valley below. They all have rougher and smoother patches, and some are steeper than others. They all offer opportunities to challenge ourselves and rejoice in the beauty of the world around us. So why pick just one?
For me, I choose the path of Judaism for many reasons. It is the path that my parents and some (not all) of my grandparents walked before me. I have felt a sense of kinship and connection with other Jews who come from all over the world. I love the songs that echo through the hills and the teachings on signposts along the way. And I have found comfort and meaning on this trail at those key moments in my life—after my father died, on my wedding day and in sharing Jewish holidays with my son.
Being in an interfaith marriage adds another layer to this metaphor. I see paths that intersect my own, perhaps merging for a while to diverge and wander off again; maybe looping back on each other at different times. My husband walks his own path, although he does not adhere to another particular religion at this point in his life. (He was raised Protestant and drifted away.) And our paths definitely join together for certain stretches, particularly around holidays that we share as a family, and the core values we want to pass on to our son who we are raising Jewish. But I am walking on a deeply grooved part of the trail, while in this vision he is sometimes on the grassy edge.
Then I think about families who want to incorporate both religions into their homes and family life. Can one path be wide enough to actually overlap with other paths? What do you gain in experience and what might you lose in that image?
I also think about the fellow travelers I have invited to walk with me, my mother-in-law in particular. Even when we are walking together, I expect that her perspective on the view is a little different than mine. Her history is different, and maybe I haven't done as good a job as I could explaining the different rituals and holidays that we'll encounter on the way up.
I always love to hear stories from hikers on other trails, and maybe I'll join them on their path for a while to take in a special sight or moment, but I keep coming back to Judaism. My path is right for me, and I hope my son will find meaning in it, too.
But I like to think about intersecting trails. Interfaith families help form a bridge between paths. We don't have to shout across the chasms at each other, but can walk together for all or part of the way. This mountain has many sides, and all invite us to look with wonder, appreciation and amazement at the world around us and at the people who share in this journey.
What does your path look like?
Why We Should Come Out as Interfaith Professionals on College Campuses
Last month, I sat with 25 people who gathered over breakfast to talk about being part of interfaith families. As the Director of an InterfaithFamily community, there is nothing new or remarkable about that; I bring interfaith couples together regularly to share stories and support one another as they explore religious life. What is noteworthy about this particular group of people is that they were all Jewish professionals, working in Hillels around the country. We were attendees at the Hillel International Global Assembly and this was a first-of-its-kind meeting for people who work in Jewish campus life and are in interfaith relationships. Some of the participants in this discussion were "out" about their relationships while others hoped no one from their campus community or staff would know they had attended the meeting. Many others did not feel comfortable attending at all for fear they would be found out, possibly resulting in losing their jobs.
I have written about how one's choice of partner does not necessarily reflect one's commitment to Jewish life. This is certainly true personally, and I know scores of other Jewish professionals like me who are wholly dedicated to enriching Jewish life in our generation, and are themselves partnered with people from other cultural and religious backgrounds. With an intermarriage rate of around 70 percent in non-Orthodox Jewish communities, it is clear that Jewish-Jewish couples are about to become a rarer sight than interfaith ones. Many of those who marry someone from another background are active in Jewish life and have every intention of continuing that involvement. Some are so dedicated to a thriving Jewish community that they become Jewish professionals. Yet when they get there, they often feel that they can't bring their whole selves to their work for fear of being labeled bad role models.
I hear the worry that Jewish campus professionals, more than professionals in other Jewish settings, are especially poised to be role models for young Jews at the time in their lives when they are getting serious about dating and marriage. Being intermarried would sanction the decision to marry out of the tradition, the argument goes. But let's look realistically at the demographics of our current Jewish college students. According to a recent study, "Among millennials, born between 1981 and 1995, … partly as a result of the high rate at which millennial children of intermarriage identify as Jewish, half of all Jews in their generation are children of intermarriage" [the Brandeis Millennial Children of Intermarriage study, p.5].
This next generation is often trying to figure out how to honor both parents as they explore religious life on campus and chart a way forward. Furthermore, many if not most of them are interdating or have at least explored the idea. The same study shows that the percentage of young adults who think it is important to marry someone Jewish is extremely low for children of in-married parents and even lower for the children of intermarried parents [Ibid, pg. 43]. Pretending that Jewish college students are largely choosing only to date other Jews is causing us to miss out on some profound conversations. They are not merely deciding on a partner; they are contemplating how they will bring meaning into their lives, they are beginning to own and make decisions as adults for their own spiritual journeys, and they are determining what role Judaism will play in their lives going forward.
These college students need diverse role models, a plethora of professional exemplars so they can see how an adult makes Jewishly committed decisions when Judaism is not the default. They need models to demonstrate how interfaith families navigate raising kids in a still-conflicted Jewish community, and how couples have healthy conversations with in-laws and grandparents about religious choices. If they do partner with someone Jewish, they will inevitably have extended family members who marry someone outside of Judaism at their family holiday table. They need models and forums to discuss how we can best navigate the increasing diversity in the Jewish community.
We are also missing the whole picture when we think only of undergraduates in the Hillel picture. Many Hillels have vibrant graduate student and young adult communities. Large numbers of these young people arrive on campus already having made their decisions about a life partner, and many of those relationships are with people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. They also seek support and models as they begin their lives together.
Those of us with religiously diverse families are uniquely situated as Jewish professionals to bring wisdom, knowledge and compassion to interfaith families exploring Jewish life. Drawing on our personal stories and experience, we are poised to model for others how good communication, flexibility and introspection can help strengthen the next generation of seekers. The current generation of inter-partnered Jewish professionals aren't the first … and won't be the last. Judaism's greatest leader, Moses, married Tzipporah. Not only was she not a Hebrew; she was the daughter of a Midianite priest. Her father, Jethro, condoned this union and even offered Moses sound advice on leading the Israelites.
Hillel has come a very long way. When I began working for the campus organization, it was made clear that professionals would not be allowed to perform an interfaith marriage ceremony, let alone be partnered with someone from another background. Thank you, Hillel International, for providing the space for such an important conversation when field professionals were brave enough to step forward and express the deep need for community and support. I look forward to the time when all Jewish professionals can bring their whole selves to their workplaces, proud to be exemplars for the Jewish campus community as they dedicate their life and work to strengthening Judaism for the next generation.
When sacred text hurts others, how do we apologize?
This essay was reprinted with permission from J. Weekly.
Earlier this month I was the rabbi at the Fellowship for Affirming Ministries' biennial conference at City of Refuge Church in Oakland. I was invited to blow the shofar for the new Hebrew month of Av, and I lit candles to usher in Shabbat before the worship began. I returned to my seat, filled with love for the extraordinary Christian leaders I had met that day, honored to bring a taste of Judaism into their prayer space and feeling welcomed as someone who had entered that morning as an outsider, now an insider sharing a sacred moment.
Then came the scriptural reading from the New Testament: "Everything [the Pharisees] do is done for people to see. … Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! … You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness" (Matthew 23:5, 27, 28).
How should I react? Was anyone looking at me? Do I show my discomfort as a Jew listening to these words? I tried to be invisible, wondering if anyone who was standing up and calling out affirmations of this reading might be associating me, the very public representation of Judaism at this gathering, with a Pharisee. Were the rituals Matthew was criticizing related to ones I just performed? Were they viewed as empty, for show?
It was mere minutes later that I felt a tap on my shoulder. The presiding pastor presented a handwritten note. "Please forgive me for my choice of scripture, which I'm sure was painful to hear. … I felt pain as I listened. … and apologize for any harm this may have done to your heart just after you gifted us with a Sabbath Blessing." I caught her eye, expressing how deeply this touched me. Her apology doesn't erase the reality of the text existing, or being read as sacred Scripture, nor should it. But it brought me peace.
What followed was a regular part of the weekly liturgy at her church. The entire congregation recited a five-minute "Confession for the misuse and abuse of Scripture" that speaks, among other things, to the harm done to Jews and others as a result of the misuse of Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament. At this point, feeling a swell of gratitude, I wondered if we Jews ever ask publicly for forgiveness for any harm our texts have caused. In drashes, I have condemned our use of anti-gay verses, I have openly challenged Torah that oppresses women or further disempowers the powerless. But do we ever apologize directly to the people sitting among us who are squirming in their seats as a result of our words?
Because I was the direct recipient of someone's confession, my mind is fixed on the people who sit and listen to sacred text being chanted in our sanctuaries. For the first time in a long stretch of history, a large percentage of people sitting in services are not Jewish. Most of them have entered our holy spaces because they love someone who is, and many have made personal sacrifices to raise Jewish families. This Shabbat, they may open the Chumash and read, "You shall not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. For they will turn your children away from Me to worship other gods, and God's anger will blaze forth against you" (Deuteronomy 7:3-4).
This week, I would ask forgiveness from interfaith couples who came to synagogue in support of their Jewish families. They might historicize these verses (this addressed long-gone nations and a nascent people) or even think about our contemporary interreligious battles (Jews worry that their kids might worship the god of the very people who have tried to extinguish them for centuries). But at a time when more interfaith couples are choosing a Jewish life for their families, I feel what the pastor felt for me — that our texts, attitudes and parts of our liturgy may be doing harm to their hearts even as they gift us with their presence and the presence of their children.
If you could reach out to someone who may be hurt by our texts, who would it be?
Top 10 Things We Learned from Our Passover/Easter Survey
In March 2015, InterfaithFamily conducted its 11th annual Passover/Easter Survey to determine the attitudes and behaviors of people in interfaith relationships during Passover and Easter. The survey attracted 1,136 responses—an increase of about 21% over 2014. Of those 1,136 respondents, 730 said they were in interfaith relationships. Of those, 501 have children and of those, 444 (89%) are raising their children with some Judaism, though not necessarily exclusively.
To simplify our findings, here are the top 10 things we learned from just those 444 respondents. (Of course, this does not reflect the behaviors of interfaith couples in general, or the behaviors of all interfaith couples with children, and the figures should not be reported as representative of all interfaith families.)
1. Passover matters. The overwhelming majority of respondents—more than 92 percent—celebrate Passover, and for most, it had some religious significance. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being "deeply religious," 67% rated Passover a 3, 4 or 5. Only 7% said it was entirely secular. For those who were having or attending a seder—420 respondents—most said it would include a seder plate (94%), reading from a Haggadah or telling the Passover story (92%), food rituals like dipping parsley in salt water, making a matzah sandwich, etc. (93%), hiding the afikoman (85%) or discussing the meaning of Passover (76%). And going to a seder wasn't new—99% had been to or hosted one before.
2. It's about the kids. When asked why they celebrate Passover, the vast majority of respondents—more than 86%—said "to share the holiday with my children," and "sharing the holiday with my kids" was also respondents' favorite part of Passover. Almost 70% said they were looking for "ways to make the seder fun for kids."
3. And food. 86% of respondents said they would be eating matzah as one of their Passover activities, with 49% following dietary restrictions for most or all days of Passover. And the resource people wanted most, next to ways to make the seder fun for kids? Recipes.
4. If you're going to buy a Haggadah, Maxwell House is still the haggadah you count on. More than half who responded said they use a store-bought haggadah (54%), and of those, 25% were planning to use the Maxwell House Haggadah this year—more than any other haggadah mentioned, which we found surprising considering how many new haggadahs are on the market these days. However, of those who planned to use a store-bought haggadah, 36% were not sure/couldn't remember which one and 26% said "Other" to the haggadah options we provided—using everything from Sammy Spider's Haggadah to congregational haggadahs. More than 8% planned to use the 30 Minute Seder and 7% said A Different Night, The Family Participation Haggadah.
5. Interfaith families look for resources to meet their specific challenges. 41% of respondents were looking for resources to make the seder comfortable and meaningful for relatives and friends who aren't Jewish, while 38% wanted help navigating the Easter/Passover overlap. 88% would be or might be interested in a haggadah specifically for interfaith families—we'll have one ready next year!
6. Many interfaith families raising their kids with Judaism also celebrate Easter… About half of respondents (49%) said they would be participating in Easter celebrations this year, and another 16 percent said that they "maybe" would.
7. … But it's a secular holiday for most. 59% said it was an "entirely secular" celebration. Most celebrations centered around Easter egg hunts or baskets—56% said they would be participating in an Easter egg hunt, and 51% said they would be decorating eggs, while 47% said they would give Easter baskets to kids or extended family. Another 55% would be attending an Easter meal at the home of family or extended family, while 15% would host an Easter meal (vs. the 47% who host a Passover seder).
8. Easter is not seen as a threat to Jewish identity. Likewise, 62% don't think celebrating Easter will affect their children's connection to Judaism. (27% said not applicable, which may mean that Easter is not celebrated.) Said one, "It's a secular celebration that's basically just having food with family. I was raised Jewish and I still ate Easter candy, decorated eggs, etc."
9. Most do not struggle or expect to struggle with observing Passover and/or Easter, but of those who do… Of the 444 respondents, 261 responded to this write-in question asking what they struggle with, and many of those simply said these holidays weren't a struggle for their family. Responses included:
"My in-laws are extremely open and welcome my Passover traditions at their Easter meal—they regularly put out matzah, without a request from me, and make desserts that are flourless for my benefit."
"None. We've been doing this long enough, we have it down," another said, while a third remarked:
"I expect the same challenges that I experience in other areas of my married life with a partner [who is not Jewish]. There are many areas of negotiation with this part of our identities; we practice good communication in order to resolve and acknowledge differences. There [are] always going to be challenges of understanding, of belief and of acceptance."
Of those who answered with a specific struggle, some cited in-laws and extended families, or balancing the needs of both partners or holidays. Said one, "We have wondered whether to let our son eat Easter candy that contains corn syrup during Passover," while another struggled with "Restrictions on my children eating chametz or bread during Easter." Some cited in-laws and extended families as a concern, or simply that the extended family wants their children to observe holidays differently than how they are being raised. Several people expressed frustration with these family members not understanding or appreciating the Jewish holiday or trying to balance everyone's needs during the two holidays.
One respondent said "My Catholic Mother—she is trying very hard to be supportive, but struggles to find a way to feel connected to her grandchildren during holidays," while a spouse said: "I love Easter merchandise: the colors, the bunnies, the eggs. I find all of it so cute but I don't buy my daughters any of it because we're raising them fully Jewish. It can be hard for me."
10. Passover is a "lot of work" holiday. We were interested to hear why people think that surveys often indicate fewer interfaith couples participate in Passover seders than couples where both partners are Jewish. The overwhelming response was that Passover is a holiday celebrated at home and takes a lot of work; that it can be intimidating if it is not a holiday you grew up celebrating and the rituals are unfamiliar. As one person explained, "Passover is pretty involved. It's a lot more than just showing up for a one hour service at a church. It takes a big commitment."
Another said, "Try[ing] not to hurt anyone's feelings, not having all the resources, not knowing where to start," while a third responded, "It takes a serious time/travel commitment to attend one or both seders, especially if they're during the work week. We typically return to my parents—a four-hour drive away—so if one member of the couple doesn't take that commitment seriously, it's hard to do."
A High, a Low, and a Mitzvah
Raising a Child with Judaism in Your Interfaith Family. This week's focus was "doing good" through mitzvot. In Hebrew, "mitzvah" means "commandment" but is also commonly understood to mean a good deed. Like most people, I want my children to care about others and take action to make the world a better place — to do mitzvot (the plural of mitzvah, commandments or good deeds). I try to teach by example and provide them with opportunities that make a difference for others.We are currently in week 5 of our Philadelphia-based online class,
Still, in our busy lives, I don't always feel that we make it as much of a priority as it should be. This week, I was inspired by a simple message our facilitator, Tami Astorino, sent out to the class at the beginning of the week. Here is part of what she wrote:
Though I am not officially enrolled in the class, I have been following along and reading the class materials and discussion posts. As Tami predicted, this week's theme did speak to me and I wanted to do something about it. As I was driving my children (ages 8 and 11) to their afternoon activity that day, I told them about Tami's family ritual and asked them about trying it in our own home. My youngest was eager to get started, my oldest was a bit skeptical. I told my oldest he could have a 'bye' for the first night and see how he felt after hearing everyone else. The second night, he shared with no hesitation. We have now adopted this as a ritual in our own home.
We've only been doing it for a short time, but I can already see an impact. I have noticed that we are all sharing more with one another and making an effort to really listen. The highs and lows have been great conversation starters and the mitzvah discussions have made us all more mindful of trying to do good for others daily.
This weekend, my family is participating in a program called Stop Hunger Now. Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. We will be joining with families from our synagogue and another local synagogue to pack dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that will be used to help feed people in developing countries around the world. We have done this project in the past, but I am hoping that this year it will be even more meaningful because it is not just a one-time good deed or mitzvah, but part of something that our family is now making a priority each and every day.
If thinking about a high, a low, and a mitzvah gives you ideas for your family, consider enrolling in our next online session of Raising a Child with Judaism in Your Interfaith Family (currently offered in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago). For just 20 minutes a week, you will be inspired!
Is God Taboo?
Many will agree that taboo topics of conversation include sex, politics, money, and religion. We're guided not to discuss these things at work, sometimes not even with our extended family, but do we talk about them at home, with our spouse? With our children? If you don't talk about these topics, how will your children know what's important to you?
Jim Keen states, in response to his daughter's query, "What is God?" in When My Jewish Child Asks Me about God: A Christian Parent's Perspective,
Certainly, none of us want to leave a large gap in our child's development. So, let's start talking about it.
Answer these questions for yourself: Where does God live? How does God listen? Does God ever sleep? Does God forgive me? Does God hear my prayers? Children are thinking about these things and developing their own responses. Ask your child what he/she thinks. Share your ideas. If you're stuck, check out the Children's Spirituality Quest Set published by Skylight Paths Publishing in Woodstock, VT. They are designed for children ages 3-6, but I've used them when teaching teens. This set is perfect for any family; it has been "endorsed by Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Buddhist religious leaders."
Another book you may consider adding to your child's library (or your own), In God's Name shares insights from many different people about qualities that they see in God and what each calls God. This book allows the reader to create his/her own connection to God and adapt one of the names in the book or develop his/her own name for God.
My personal favorite is called God's Paintbrush. In writing this, I discovered that there is now a special 10th Anniversary Edition of God's Paintbrush. In the introduction, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso tells a sweet story of a child explaining to his grandmother why he likes this book so much. "It's because it asks questions." When asked if the answers to the questions were in the back of the book, she explained, "no, the answers are inside you."
Sandy continues,
She goes on to share some ideas for how to read and utilize the book to open the door for conversation.
So start your conversation. Take the "taboo" label off God and start talking about God with your partner, with your children, with your family, and maybe even with your friends!
Preparing Parents For Their Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah
two online courses for parents in interfaith families. One course is for parents with young children, and the other course is for parents with 4th-7th graders preparing for bar orWe run
Most of the families who read through our materials are members of congregations and are actively raising children with Judaism. Many congregations offer family education around bar and bat mitzvah, to help make this rite of passage more meaningful for the full family. Congregational leaders often bemoan low enrollment or seeming disinterest in different programs the synagogue offers, but when it comes to bar and bat mitzvah, the family is lined up for each class and program, not wanting to miss anything relating to this central event for their child and family.
When I ask clergy and educators whether interfaith families have their needs met around bar and bat mitzvah, I'm met with quizzical looks. "These families are Jewish, they are raising Jewish kids, and the material we cover in family education sessions address all of our family's questions and concerns," I am told. I wonder though, whether for some parents who aren't Jewish or who are newer to Judaism if there is a safe space to talk openly about their feelings.
The following are three ideas to keep in mind when planning family sessions in a synagogue. In addition, if you are reading this and you do work with synagogue families, they can always access our free, online materials to supplement and enrich all they learn at the synagogue. Anyone can email me for help accessing our materials.
When you think about the programs you attended in preparation for your child's bar or bat mitzvah, or when you think about what you would want in such a program and experience, what would you be looking for? If you think it would be helpful, chances are other families would think so too.
A Secular Jewish Alternative
I have often wondered if, had I not been raised Jewish, I would convert to Judaism. I know many Jews who are intermarried and who don't believe in God, who consider themselves atheist, agnostic, or "just Jewish" Jews. I know many Jewish people who don't believe in, or question the existence of, God. If a person was not raised Jewish, but enjoys cultural aspects of Judaism, would they convert? Would I convert had I not been born into this religion? Do I love the Jewish religion? Or do I love the Jewish customs and culture? For me, I think these answers are fluid as I grow with my Judaism. I think everyone is different and has their own spiritual and cultural journey. For many individuals and couples, community is really what they are seeking.
In Philadelphia, I experienced an interesting option: the Jewish Children's Folkshul. It is a secular humanistic community for children and adults. There is no rabbi or cantor, but they sing songs in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. They say a secular kaddish with a translation of "We remember them," without invoking God. The kids learn all the Bible stories as stories, not as miracles or acts of God. They tell the Purim story and identify themes that are relevant today. They learn about the Holocaust. They learn about tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (righteous giving), kindness, and ethics. They experience social action/social justice projects and what it is like to be part of a soup kitchen and stand in line for their soup for the day.
The bar/
I met with the teachers to provide them with some sensitivity training. They learned about the resources at InterfaithFamily and we discussed how they teach kids from interfaith families. I was truly impressed that any discussion about other religions is met with absolute respect. It was a wonderful exercise for the teachers and I truly enjoyed their enthusiasm and wisdom.
For those who are interested in a Jewish option that emphasizes ethics and culture, check out a Secular Humanistic community like the Folkshul. It is an intriguing option for those who enjoy Jewish culture and community in a non-religious environment.
That Bar Mitzvah Video Thing
I admit it: when I watch
Here's how Heeb magazine introduced "The Best Half-Jewish/Half-Asian, Queen-Inspired Bar Mitzvah Video You'll Ever See":
"Easy come, easy go, will you say 'Shalom'?"
(And no, the dad's not waving Monopoly money, that's a handful of colourful Canadian bills.)
Grandparenting in Interfaith Families
Are you a Jewish grandparent navigating your relationship with your child, their partner, and your grandchild? Are you the adult, sandwiched between your parent and your young child, respecting the one who raised you and hoping they will respect your choices in raising your own family? I am curious what works (and what doesn't work). Please comment below and join me as we start a dialogue about the role of grandparents!
I believe step one should be to have a conversation. The grandparent should sit down with their adult child and discuss how each sees the other's role. Share thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams. Respect each other. Recognize that this can be easier said than done!
But then what? Grandparents: what do you do (have you done) that has worked really well? What didn't work so well that you would do differently next time? Children, what have your parents done that worked (or didn't)? What do you wish they would do?
I have five ideas to get us started; I'm interested to hear if you think these will be well received.
What would you like to add to this list?


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Alison Laichter is a meditation teacher, urban planner, community organizer, and founded the Jewish Meditation Center (JMC). She is a recipient of the Joshua Venture Group Dual Investment Program, a 2-year, $100k fellowship for Jewish social entrepreneurs, and was named one of the 2010 Jewish Week's "36 Under 36: Visionaries for a New Era."
She studied Civil Engineering at The Cooper Union and Urban Planning at Columbia University, worked for the United Nations Development Programme. She works for JDC Entwine and manages all of their west coast programs- entwining the local and global.
Alison has been meditating since she was 15, including extensively in the Himalayan, Santa Cruz, and San Miguel mountains. She has taught classes and retreats for children and adults throughout the world, including retreatants at Elat Chayyim/Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, students and professors at Yale University, doctors at Bellevue Hospital, social entrepreneurs in Jerusalem, artists in Mexico City, Entwiners on the Arabian Sea, children in NYC public schools and participants of all backgrounds across the United States.

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If you believe that the little things in life are what count the most, Christmas is your chance to drive the point home. Stocking stuffers can easily be overlooked, but this is a great opportunity to prove that you're paying attention to the details — go for stuff that will make her feel special. And no, dental floss and a Mars bar aren't a good idea. We're thinking beauty products, home spa treats, life hack tools, and surprises. From a pair of earphones for your sister that won't fall out when she's running to a lip colour you know would look great on your girlfriend, you've got plenty of options.
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Since these laptops predated inexpensive memory both in the form of RAM and permanent storage, there isn't any room on them to store very many BASIC programs. Further, their primary purpose is writing, and it would be nice to get the writing off of the laptops and onto, say, this blog. The laptops both have several communications options, but as they are options from 1983/1984, none of them are Internet, Bluetooth, or WiFi.
I ordered a RS-232 to USB adapter and delved into Python's serial port extension module, pyserial.
This stuff is ancient; so much about communications nowadays is handled by software that I'd completely forgotten the need for a null modem adapter to switch the transmit and receive lines in RS-232 when connecting two computers directly to each other. Further, it isn't used enough to justify drivers that don't crash your computer. After running these tests on my iMac using the Prolific drivers, I now habitually unplug the serial adapter and reboot the computer. If I don't the computer will reboot itself within a few hours. And this is the most commonly recommended product/driver combination among people who still use RS232.
That working, however, what I needed was very simple. The Model 100/200 does not have any fancy terminal software with downloading functions that automatically recognize filenames and download to the appropriate place. "Download" on these laptops is no more than capturing the incoming data to a file you name, and "upload" is no more than sending out the file you want to upload. I vaguely remember, in the early days of Bulletin Board Services, special codes for noting when a file transfer was about to start so that terminal software would know; these laptops predate that.
And all I really need is to be able to transfer text files back and forth. I chose to make the file transfer location be under my Dropbox folder; I named the folder "TRS80". This way, I can also put things into it and take things out of it on Editorial or Textastic on the iPad.
- Goodreads: What books did I read last week and last month?—Friday, February 26th, 2016
I started using Goodreads in 2014, and it's a nice way of tracking what books I read and what I thought about them. One thing I have definitely noticed missing, however, is an advanced search. Every once in a while I want to see what and how many books I read in the last week, or the last month, or the last x days, and there is no such search. You have to count them up yourself.
At the end of the year, I wanted to find all of the books from 2015 that I'd rated at 5. The only way I could find to do this was to eyeball the list. An advanced search would have made this easy.
In my Django database of books purchased, this sort of data is easy to drill into. It's very easy to see how many books I purchased in February 2015, for example. And since one of my New Year's Resolutions is that I am going to read more than I buy, comparing books purchased to books read is important!
However, while it does not provide an advanced search Goodreads does offer data export so that you can save your data to your hard drive. If you use Goodreads extensively it's a good idea to make regular backups. The export creates a CSV, or comma-separated file, of your books, ratings, reviews, pretty much everything associated with each book you read. This allows us to make an advanced search of our own.
I chose Python because I'm familiar with it, and because it has both a CSV module and an in-memory SQL module (based on SQLite 3) built in.
The drawback to the CSV module is that it is relatively old and not unicode aware. In its defense it assumes everything is utf–8, but it doesn't mark it that way so that the rest of Python knows. Goodreads, fortunately, provides its CSV file as utf–8. It's not too hard to make a Python generator that will return unicode/UTF8 values when importing from the Goodreads csv file.
One more trick is that the csv reader only knows of one type of value, the string. But if we want last week's data, we need to be able to search on a date. So, riffing on LMatter's stack overflow code, I made a UnicodeDictReader that also converts Goodreads's Date Read to a Python date.
This part of the script then loops through every line in the csv file and inserts the relevant data into an on-the-fly sqlite3 database.
- Converting an existing Django model to Django-MPTT—Friday, February 12th, 2016
For a long time I've been painfully aware of a glaring inefficiency in my custom blog software built off of Django. A lot of what it does relies on the tree model: folders within folders. Finding all the front-page articles for my main blog means getting all the children of each category, and then any descendants of those children, and so on. Previewing a new blog article can take a minute or more, mainly because of the recursive nature of building the sidebar. There are only seven articles on the front page, but they require looking through a tree with 1,505 articles spread over five levels.
I've been aware of various solutions for turning Django into more of a tree-hugger, but they've tended either to not work well with an existing installation, or if they did, their documentation hid that. For example, django-mptt until a few years ago hid the very important .rebuild method, which is necessary for building the tree data for an existing dataset.
Having just finished the basic installation, however, django-mptt is very helpful. On my very simple, not very tree-like blog, the Walkerville Weekly Reader, publish time dropped by around 13% to 21%; since it only took about two minutes anyway, that's not necessarily a big deal. But Mimsy Were the Borogoves, which I've been running since the nineties, has a lot more articles and a much more complex structure. Publish time dropped from about 30 minutes to about 10 minutes. That's worth the installation troubles.
Converting my model to use django-mptt
I installed django-mptt by downloading version 0.8.0, unpacking it, and running setup, but, despite the documentation claiming that it's okay with Django 1.8.x, it performed an automatic upgrade to Django 1.9.1. I had to downgrade again using:
- sudo pip uninstall django
- sudo pip install django==1.8.8
I'm using django-ajax-selects version 1.3.6, which doesn't work with Django 1.9.x. While the 1.4 version is compatible with Django 1.9, the 1.4 version doesn't work on inlines, and inlines are the main reason I use ajax-selects. I have a list of 9,000 URLs and 14,000 pages that can be attached via inline to any page, not to mention the keywords and authors and so forth. Without ajax-select, it takes forever for browsers to render pages because those become pull-down menus.
Converting to django-mptt is very easy. I added this to the top of my models.py:
- from mptt.models import MPTTModel, TreeForeignKey, TreeManager
I had to include TreeManager because I have a custom manager. If you use the standard manager, you shouldn't need it.
[toggle code]
- class PageManager(models.Manager):
- …
class Page(models.Model):
- parent = models.ForeignKey('self', blank=True, null=True)
- Test classes and objects in python—Saturday, February 6th, 2016
One of the critical advances in computer programming since I began programming in the eighties are Objects. An Object is a thing that can include both functions and variables. In Python, an object is an instance of a class. For example, Django relies heavily on classes for its models. In Adding links to PDF in Python the main class used is for a restaurant. Each object is an instance of the restaurant class.
But one of the great things about object-oriented programming is that the things that access your objects don't care what class it is. They care only whether it has the appropriate functions and variables. When they are on an object, a function is called a method and a variable is called a property.
Any object can masquerade as another object by providing the same methods and properties. This means that you can easily make test classes that allows creating objects for use in the PDF example.
In Adding links to PDF in Python, I had a Django model for the Restaurants and a Django model for the Links that were each restaurant's web page. But because Django models are nothing more than (very useful) classes, you can make a fake Restaurant and fake Link to impersonate what the code snippet expects.
[toggle code]
- # in real life, the Link class would probably pull information from a database of links
- # and live would be whether it is currently a valid link,
- # and get_absolute_url would be the actual URL for that link
class Link():
def __init__(self, title):
- self.title = title
def live(self):
- return True
def get_absolute_url(self):
- return "http://www.example.com/" + self.title.replace(" ", "_")
- def __init__(self, title):
- # in real life, the Restaurant class would probably be a table of restaurants
- # and would store the name of each restaurant, an id for the restaurant's web site
- # and the restaurant's address
class Restaurant():
def name(self):
- return "The Green Goblin"
def url(self):
- myURL = Link("The Green Goblin")
- return myURL
def address(self):
- return "1060 West Addison, Chicago, IL"
def mapref(self):
- return "https://www.google.com/maps/place/" + self.address().replace(" ", "+")
- def name(self):
Save that as restaurant.py.
Objects are created from classes using:
- What app keeps stealing focus?—Friday, January 8th, 2016
I've been having a problem lately on Mac OS X Yosemite, 10.10, with losing focus on the window I'm typing in. Most of the time it didn't happen often; sometimes it would happen three or four times over several minutes. The screen doesn't change: the menu bar still tells me I'm in Safari or iA Writer or whatever. But suddenly my typing is going nowhere.
A quick Google search on "Mac OS X application window keeps losing focus" and I found I wasn't alone. The problem seems to be that some background app is stealing the focus, but since it's a background app the menu doesn't change from the current app.
On How do I tell which app stole my focus in OS X?, medmunds provided a neat little Python script for displaying the current active app as soon as the active app changes. It also displays the path to the app so that you know specifically where the offender lies.
I quickly realized that I keep a lot of windows open, and the Terminal window soon disappeared behind all of my working windows. Obviously once I noticed a focus change, I could go back to Terminal to see what it was, but if it happened while I was reading a web page, I might not notice it for a long time—scrolling doesn't need focus to work.
So I did another search on "Python Mac OS X speak" and found an answer by arainchi that should, and did, allow importing the Mac's built-in speech synthesizer software. I added a volume reduction (hearing a loud voice announcing the app change every time I switched an app became annoying very quickly) and improved the responsiveness of the script. Mac OS X Python supports fractional sleep times, so I reduced it to two-tenths of a second instead of a whole second.
- Draw a circle on an iPad map from three points in Pythonista—Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
I happened across a copy of 57 Practical Programs & Games in BASIC while traveling a month ago, and was once again fascinated by the simple toolchests we used back in the seventies and eighties. I fooled around with it a bit, typing up the programs in HotPaw BASIC on the iPad. I now have the BASIC code in HotPaw necessary to tell what day of the week any date, post 1752, fell on, as well as a Chi-Square evaluator that I'll probably never use.
While reading through it, I came across the code for Circle determined by three points and thought about how cool it would be to use that simple code on modern mobile tools. It should be a snap to write an on-the-fly app in HotPaw BASIC or Pythonista. Take a snapshot of a map, tap three points, and see what the circle is.
HotPaw BASIC does not appear to have access to the iPad's photo library, but Pythonista does. It has a photos module that allows you to pick_image and several methods in the scene module for simple manipulations and display.
The code itself is pretty simple. Create a scene, override touch_end to capture points (touch_end is similar to onClick in JavaScript), and the BASIC code from 57 Programs converted to Python, to determine the center and radius of a circle given three points on the screen.
- icalBuddy and eventsFrom/to—Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
I use icalBuddy extensively along with GeekTool to display events on my desktop. I have the fairly standard sort of "here are your upcoming events":
- icalBuddy --excludeCals Television --excludeEventProps url --dateFormat "%A" --includeOnlyEventsFromNowOn eventsToday+4
This shows everything from the rest of today through four days from now. But you'll notice it excludes one calendar: I really don't need to see a list of the television shows I sometimes watch. They're not that important to me.
Up until about a week ago, I showed only television shows for today:
- icalBuddy --includeCals Television --excludeEventProps url --dateFormat "%A" --includeOnlyEventsFromNowOn eventsToday
And it worked fine, until the local old movies television station had William Castle's classic 13 Ghosts on at 1:20 AM a few weeks ago. I missed it, because 1:20 AM isn't today, it's tomorrow. But by the time I look at it tomorrow morning, 1:20 AM is long gone.
I initially changed it to "eventsToday+1", but that clutters up my desktop with events for tomorrow night, which I don't need to know about now. I don't plan my life around television shows, I just want to know if there's something interesting right now. What I really want is for today's list to include until tomorrow morning. The icalBuddy man page indicates that it's possible to specify a range that includes an hour on a relative end date, but the documentation is currently wrong. For the option "eventsFrom:START to:END", it says:
Print events occurring between the two specified dates. The dates (START and END) may be specified in a natural language form (such as "tomorrow at noon" or "june 10 at 6 pm") or as relative dates (such as "today+3" or "yesterday-2") but the safest format is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS +HHMM"
Specifying tomorrow at noon, or tomorrow at 8 am, or tomorrow at anything just shows everything from tomorrow. A quick use of --debug confirmed it: icalBuddy interprets "tomorrow at" anything to be "[tomorrow] at 11:59:59 PM Central Daylight Time".
I verified, however, that the to: option can accept partial days, by using the actual date (August 20 at 7 pm, for example), so I messed around until I found a format that works. Rather than "tomorrow at time", use "time at tomorrow":
- icalBuddy --includeCals Television --excludeEventProps url -f --dateFormat "%A" --includeOnlyEventsFromNowOn eventsFrom:today to:"noon tomorrow"
- icalBuddy --includeCals Television --excludeEventProps url -f --dateFormat "%A" --includeOnlyEventsFromNowOn eventsFrom:today to:"9 am tomorrow"
The first is interpreted as noon tomorrow, and the second as 9 am tomorrow, only showing things in the morning from tomorrow instead of all day.
- Retry SSH connections after transient error—Monday, October 20th, 2014
The Timeout class works great for retrying connections after they timeout, but what about more prosaic errors? I've been getting a bunch of AuthenticationException errors in my Python/Paramiko connection attempts lately. I'd been just capturing all SSHExceptions (of which AuthenticationException is a subclass) and reporting the error, but this is just a transient error that almost always goes away on the very next upload.
That makes it a perfect candidate for retrying the connection. I renamed the class from Timeout to Persistence, because this more generic class is going to be more persistent at making connections.1
[toggle code]
- from paramiko import SSHException, AuthenticationException
class Persistence(object):
def __init__(self, function=None, seconds=30, tries=3, errorMessage='Timeout'):
- self.seconds = seconds
- self.tryLimit = tries
- self.tries = 1
- self.function = function
- self.errorMessage = errorMessage
def act(self):
- signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self.handleTimeout)
- signal.alarm(self.seconds)
- self.function()
except AuthenticationException, error:
- self.tryAgain(AuthenticationException(error), 'Authentication exception')
- signal.alarm(0)
def tryAgain(self, exception, message):
if self.tries >= self.tryLimit:
- raise exception
- print message, 'try', self.tries, self.errorMessage
- sleep(2*self.tries)
- self.tries = self.tries + 1
- self.act()
- print 'Succeeded on try', self.tries
- if self.tries >= self.tryLimit:
def handleTimeout(self, signum, frame):
- self.tryAgain(TimeoutError(self.errorMessage), 'Timed out')
- def __init__(self, function=None, seconds=30, tries=3, errorMessage='Timeout'):
All it really does is add a tryAgain method that can be called both by the handleTimeout method and any exceptions in try/except. If the failure continues more than three times, the exception is passed back up as normal.


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Voter Intimidation Victim and Witness Come Forward, And Nov. 2 Looms Closer
Voter intimidation: everyone wants to shift the blame.
No one seems to want to play nice at the voting polls this year. And new names and organizations keep getting involved in the already over-crowded, controversial fray.
King Street Patriots/The Tea Party. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. The Texas Democratic Party. The Texas Republican Party. Harris County Democratic Party. The Attorney General's office. Public Citizen. League of Women Voters of Texas. Mary Kay Greene. Elvis. Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird.
With daily developments -- some true, some highly questionable -- Hair Balls can't help but keep you up to date.
On Monday afternoon, representatives from Public Citizen and the League of Women Voters called a press conference outside of the Moody Park Community Center, wanting to discuss and diffuse some of the rumors and misinformation swirling around the issue of voter intimidation and poll watchers. Several video crews and Hair Balls turned out to see what was what.
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Essentially, Anita Privett of LWV read a press release, encouraging voters who may be apprehensive about coming to the polls to partake in their civic duty with pride and confidence. She also presented key points from the Texas Election Code about what a poll watcher can and cannot do, including not conversing with voters (which they've done), only communicating with an election judge (which they've not done) and that poll watchers "may not be present at the voting station when a voter is preparing the voter's ballot or is being assisted by a person of the voter's choice." Remember the female pole watcher who claimed, "I have the right to stand wherever I want!"? Well, she was wrong. So much for all that training "True the Vote" supposedly invested in its volunteer pole watchers.
In the case of Blanca Flores, who showed up to vote at Houston Community College last Thursday (i.e. not one of the 14 Monday incidents) with her 74-year-old mother (who was in a wheelchair) and paralyzed daughter (who was in a power-chair), poll watchers decided it was necessary to get involved beyond what the Texas Election Code deems appropriate.
While Flores' mother was approaching the voting booth, a man who identified himself as a poll watcher directed Flores to "close[your] mouth" while she was figuring out how best to help her mother to the booth. Then in the process of her mother voting, three poll watchers hovered behind her and then raised up on their toes to look into the booth. Flores' mother turned around at one point and asked her daughter, "what are they doing?"
Another account of an incident came from Barbara Ashley, who had showed up at the Moody Park polling place on Monday, around lunchtime. She entered the foyer in order to read the sample ballot, she heard disruption in the doorway to the voting computers.
A pair of "anglo women, about 60 years old, a blonde and a brunette" were blocking the doorway and the brunette was "arguing with the judge, loudly." The judge had confronted the women, saying he had received word of complaints about the pair having "disrupted the process." She also witnessed the blonde woman paging through the voter information paperwork.
Ashley decided to leave following the incident, because "I've never seen such disruption [at a voting place] in my life; I was shocked and appalled, I could not concentrate." She said she did return later in the afternoon, and when she did, the same disruptive poll voters were still present and "right on top of the poll workers ... and right in the face of the voters, where voters signed in their personal information."
The press conference was brought to an abrupt end when the Republican election judge at the Moody Park location came out and claimed "there are no media camera allowed within 100 feet of the polling place!" Not so, but the group did disperse, but not before a few cameras decided to flex their media freedoms and entered the building to film the outside of the polls.
In a follow-up conversation with Ashley, while she was speaking with Mary Kay Green -- who is running for judge of the 247th family district court and was outside the Moody Park voting location handing out flyers -- she indicated that one of the poll watchers had associated herself with the King Street Patriots.
In a bit of news that should excite Tea Party'rs, Republicans or anyone looking for something to fingerpoint about following the flurry of negativity flailing toward the Right, reports have come out that Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has been involved in some unsavory behavior of herself, electioneering near polling places. The part that makes us wary of buying into the news is that the accusations come from True the Vote. And they came about eight days after they supposedly occurred. Below is a video one anonymous individual posted to YouTube of Jackson Lee's supposed "electioneering."
Hair Balls didn't notice anything aggressive about Jackson Lee, other than the color of that top.
Stay tuned, because this issue is only going to get more exciting and twisted as the November 2 election date grows closer.
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