Music Favorited in 2018 and 2019

Best Day of My Life - American Authors
Billie Jean - Street Corner Renaissance (cover)
Come and Get Your Love - Redbone
Demons - Jasmine Thompson (Imagine Dragons Cover)
The End of the World - Gin Blossoms 11/10/18
Friday I'm in Love - Janet Devlin (cover)
Gotta Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer
Heart's Content - Brandie Carlyle
How Great Thou Art - Chris Rice
I Was Only Loving You - Jaymay
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Night Moves - Bob Seger
The Sound of Silence - Brooklyn Duo (piano and cell)
St Roch Blues - Hurray for the Riff Raff 2/2/18
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Wrecking Ball - Scars on 45 (cover)

Exploring Bozeman Cuisine

Bozeman Bistro
1 visit
May 2009


Chickpea Cafe
1 visit, unique middle eastern food


Main Street Overeasy
2 visits, excellent both times
June 2012?

Nova Cafe
1 visit, great food
Sept 2012

Over the Tapas
2 visits, great flavors, several gluten-free options
Sept 2012

Sola Cafe
3-4 visits
early Summer 2012
(they are still closed as of early Oct 2012 due to a recent fire)

Sweet Chili's
1 visit, good Asian food, unique items available, Gluten-Free options
early Summer 2012

Ted's Grill
1 visit, pretty good Bison burger
June 2012

Vera Fare
1 visit, good gluten-free bison salad, although nothing to write home about

Checklist:

Blackbird
Cafe International
Cafe Zydeco

Emerson Grill
recommended by at least three people for it's romantic atmosphere and a place to take someone for a special dinner

Fresco Cafe
Home Range kitchen
Looie's Down Under
Starky's

Art to Own Someday, part 1

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
The Spinet
1902

Carl Brenders
Spellbound

Rod Chase

Dawn's Early Light

Bev Doolittle

Let My Spirit Soar

Tim Cox

Just About Home

Robert Duncan
Curious

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Jews and Marriage

I had no awareness of this before, but for Jewish people, marriage is supposed to mean marrying another Jew. My roommate had said that Jewish people are supposed to marry other Jews, so I wanted to educate myself about the subject:

A Rabbi on the Ohr Somayach website writes the following on why it's important for Jews to marry other Jews:

. . .By marrying a non-Jew one thereby ends over 3,000 years of Jewish continuity, effectively cutting oneself and one's offspring off from what it means to be Jewish.

For Jews, "marrying within the faith" isn't a cultural preference or prejudice. Rather, it is one the commandments G-d gave us at Mount Sinai. A Jew who marries a non-Jew transgresses a Torah prohibition.

Some scriptural background:
The practice of not "intermarrying" is in fact one of the oldest features of Judaism. It dates back to Abraham telling Eliezer, his servant, not to find a wife for his son from the Canaanites. It continues with Isaac's command to his son Jacob not to marry the "daughters of the land." The practice is mentioned in the Bible as a legal prohibition, and is also part of the covenant that Ezra the scribe had the Jews make when they rebuilt the Temple after the Babylonian Exile.

Ask the Rabbi: Intermarriage