Schools

[magid]

They've added a category to the userinfo page, schools. I'm not sure I'll bother to put mine in my userinfo, but it was interesting to browse what they've already got listed. My high school, college, and grad school are there; my elementary school and yeshiva* are not. In fact, it looks like Israel currently has no schools whatsoever, nor any cities.


* Institutions of Jewish learning for adults in Israel tend to split along gender lines not only in student bodies, but in how they're referred to. Yeshiva is for men, seminary is for women. Except that for me, anyway, sem refers to yet-another-future-working-mommy factory, not designed for in-depth learning lishma (for it's own sake), but to educate women enough to run their homes and raise their children while their husbands either work and learn or learn full time. Maybe there's another word I'm blanking on, but given the horns of this naming dilemma, Nishmat feels more like a yeshiva.

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A completely unrelated note: as I came out of the T tonight, I saw a man wearing a green T-shirt that said "I am a Keeper". The first thing I thought was that there must be some kind of live-action Fluxx game going on...

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[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Keepers don't actually "perch" but it was the closest thing I could think of that a not-actually-Keeper being might do to superficially resemble one.