by snarly | Apr 11, 2018 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
This morning, Snarly was asked to write a piece for Tablet Magazine, where she is a contributing editor and columnist, about Mark Zuckerberg and apologies. One of Zuck’s talking points, as captured by a photographer in a pic of his notes, was “not who we...
by snarly | Sep 12, 2015 | Religious Apologies
Hey, as we head into Rosh HaShanah, let’s go through the 12th century sage Moses Maimonides’s RULES FOR APOLOGIZING. It won’t be boring, I swear. Get back here. Maimonides (who had the jaunty nickname Rambam) was a Spanish physician and chicken soup...
by snarly | Sep 17, 2014 | Religious Apologies
You know where the word “scapegoat” comes from, right? In Leviticus, there’s discussion of the way the Jewish community would project all its sins onto a goat on Yom Kippur and send it out into the wilderness. Today, my part-time employer Tablet...
by snarly | Sep 25, 2012 | Other Apologies, Religious Apologies, Youth apologizes
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is nearly upon us, so I procrastinate instead of making a kugel for the breaking-the-fast potluck tomorrow and/or filing a story before sundown that will bring in actual money. I apologize to my husband for not doing my share to pay...