New York – A carp, about to be blugeoned on the head at a Jewish-owned fish processing company, began shouting in Hebrew, “The end is near!” Read more. The article can also be found in the New York Times.
Here’s an update: Check out this story of a seventeenth-century Jewish scholar who placed a fish in a cradle, to symbolise the redemption of Israel – which he believed would happen under the sign of Pisces. Taken from the Jewish Heritage Magazine website.
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My dear friend and best namesake around puts up great posts on her weblog. One of these is her popular Talking Fish entry. Read more. Another post is her mention of journalist Christopher Allbritton who’s begun a weblog on the…
Hey Van, while trying to ping your posts, I realized the links you put on your trackback doesn’t work. I had to use your permalinks for the post on Talking Fish and Weblogging the war. Just FYI.
Thanks for the note. I will check on that … I probably didn’t reconfigure MT’s trackback to my new/temporary domain.
Babes, you _are_ supposed to use the permalinks to link to my site. However to ping me as well, you must paste the trackback URL in the ‘URLs to Ping’ field, at the bottom of your MT admin page.
Don’t worry, you’ll get used to everything in time 🙂
Oops…I think I got it right when I first did it, five minutes after you’d told me what to do. It’s been a while since that time, so memory’s gone a bit fuzzy. Thanks for the instructions again!