Display Name : Ashira
Gender: Female
Current City of Residence: Jerusalem
Occupation: Student (Limudei Kodesh)
Favorite Books: White Oleander, A Clockwork Orange, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Fine Balance, The Timetraveller's Wife, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, White Teeth, Night, Dawn, Where the River Meets the Sea, A Handmaid's Tale, The House of Spirits, Life of Pi, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Lovely Bones, Exodus, Mila 18, On Beauty, A Million Little Pieces, The Dignity of Difference, and loads more!
Hobbies: Music, reading, writing, photography (I took my display picture!), anything and everything nerdy (I love checking out museums, archaeologically sites, etc), travel, underwater basket weaving, and spending wayyyy too much time on the internet (my computer is my yetzer hora incarnate)
Freestyle description:
I'm just a girl with a lot of questions trying to find the answers! I am very passionate about the things I believe in, but I am also a firm believer in exploring all sides to every issue. I think it's hard for a person to say they have conviction in something if they do not know it's other side..or maybe that's just my old debate team instincts kicking in! Either way, I try to be thorough with any issue, and try to be sure I really understand all its possible ramifications. I love to travel and observing other cultures in action-I think it helps you figure out where you stand in society when you understand other people's customs.
My Judaism is of huge importance to me,it's defines who I am, where I come from and where I'm going, and it always amazes me with its versatility and ability to translate into our daily lives. One of the biggest challenges (at least in my opinion) is walking that fine line tight rope between a "Jewish" life and a modern one, which I hope to discuss in this blog as best I can...I'm new at this, bare with me!!
Random Questions:
When you hesitate before hitting snooze on your alarm clock, are you being lazy?
Just thinking about hitting the snooze button isn't lazy at all. As a matter of fact, I think it's more active than automatically hitting it...those few extra seconds require quite some effort, that's pretty commendable.
For your birthday, your aunt gave you a maple syrup dispenser shaped like a rooster. Please write her a thank-you note.
Dear Aunty, I love waking up with a cockle doodle doo and some syrup from you..thanks!
Have you ever drank your soda from a straw?
I try to always drink my soda from a straw..they say it does less damage to your enamel that way!
Do you like hot sauce?
Most definitely. I like my food to have a little personality
Whats your favorite planet and why?
Venus. That's where women come from.
