dat moshe, etc

for a while i;ve speculated that there is a connection between the "dat moshe ve-yisrael" by which we marry and the "dat moshe vi-yehudit" of mishnah ketubot 7:6.
Yesterday, i read a ketubah of a woman from the dead-sea region in mishnaic times (a wealthy society lady, not a sectarian) where the translation read "according to the laws of moses and the judeans." I'm not sure what the original read, but I thought reinforcedd the yisrael/yehudit connection by providing an alternative that is sort of like each: yehudim.
anyhow, i have no idea what to make of this, or where to find out.
thoughts are appreciated.
M
ps - in my attempts to find the mishnah citation above without actually opening a mishnah (ie, via google), i came across a seemingly article, moderatly related... didn't read it, though, because my first final is in two weeks...

tee hee.

i just noticed that the woman in the bud light advertisements currently in subways has three arms in one of the picturers. (she's holding the bottle in front of her with two hands, but then her left arm is hanging behind her...)

highlight of monday

watching Richard Epstein on CNN a few years ago discussion Intel v. Hamidi. It was just funny for many reasons. the best part was when the reporter, who seemed not to follow any of the previous discussion, announced the topic coming up: cat abductions.

one of my professors has the habit of calling on people who don't like to talk in class when no one else is volunteering. Some of those people don't tlak because they're not paying attention, others because they just don't like to talk in class. In education circles we call that a "different learning style" and it's ok. but apparently not here.
Today, he called on one such person:
P: XXX, what do you think?
X: I'm not sure
P: your'e not sure what you think or you not sure you have any thoughts?
X: i'm not sure what i think, i guess
P: well get sure.
...

apparently outright meanness is tolerated from old, famous professors. but the culprit here is neither. grrr.

treife medineh

An email invitation from the "young leadership division" of a well-known frum organization recently evaded my spam filter.

Subject: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow....

Inviting me to a "food and wine tasting" (insert attempt to sound posh while sounding really not here...)

two things:
1 - i think it;'s funny that frum people think if you use elipses instead of a word because that word conveys something you consider inappropriate it's ok even if your whole point is to evoke that word.
i am reminded of political postrs in chareidi neighborhoods in yerushalayim admonishing various ministers not to bring "etnan ..." to the House of God.
sometimes, it's more salacious to leave things unsaid, reinforceing taboos, tahn it would be just to say them...

2 - more importantly, i think it's a little applaing that a frum organization thinks taht's an acceptable slogan for one of its events.

why i hate haloween

1
the greenwich village halloween parade meant it took me close to an hour to even get onto the subway after leaving school yesterday. (i kept going where the policemen told me to go only to be told upon getting there that the entrance/station was actually closed...)

2
it's gross. i mean, clown suits are fine, but miniskirted "nurses" comingling with blood-spattered corpses is just gross. really.
this is connected to a more general issue of squeamishness on my part, i suppose. i find that my underexposure to popular culture makes me extremely sensitive to gruesome images (eg, subway advertisements for a tv series about a serial killer featuring limbs of corpses, or basically anything having to do with any incarnation of the movie "Saw"). i mean, i just don't want to have to look at such things.

the end. i'm off to attend a lecture in lieu of doing a rather substantial project that's due, err, tomorrow...