tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post6474731124599541874..comments2024-01-22T04:45:58.881+02:00Comments on Simply Jews: I am Jewish too, and here is why...GideonSworthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951672633294843881noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-84284459401299025502011-09-20T07:43:50.085+03:002011-09-20T07:43:50.085+03:00Save judaisam frm zionisam .mother s jew mins chil...Save judaisam frm zionisam .mother s jew mins child s jew ?kisu4allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04640904748943428819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-2617134762970895672011-07-12T20:03:07.471+03:002011-07-12T20:03:07.471+03:00Let's hope you are right.Let's hope you are right.SnoopyTheGoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-73083724838252972832011-07-12T19:13:54.585+03:002011-07-12T19:13:54.585+03:00It doesn't have to be.
If Jews could rise up ...It doesn't have to be.<br /><br />If Jews could rise up to this challenge:<br /><br />"Im Tirzu, ein zu agada"<br /><br />they can stand up to the ultras.<br /><br />It's just most Israelis are quite passive about it, waiting for others to do the heavy lifting for them. <br /><br />A change in the coalition assembly laws would be a first step.<br /><br />Another possibility, the Knesset will legislate itself the natural and historical legatee of the Great Sanhedrin, and the laws that it passes - pertain, to those who want to.<br /><br />The ultras can continue to marry amongst themselves. But I predict thay can't go on forever. Love, freedom, independence, will beckon, sooner or later. It's the Jewish way, you know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-85805698892658658262011-07-12T00:14:17.022+03:002011-07-12T00:14:17.022+03:00Oh, that's definitely true.Oh, that's definitely true.SnoopyTheGoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-47974726017349667682011-07-11T19:56:13.779+03:002011-07-11T19:56:13.779+03:00Should be relaxed, but won't be. The Orthodox,...Should be relaxed, but won't be. The Orthodox, the self-appointed keepers of Torah Judaism, will never allow it. Particularly the Ultras in Israel.Dick Stanleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-91215043458535295652011-07-11T09:41:45.218+03:002011-07-11T09:41:45.218+03:00Yep, that was my first impression too.Yep, that was my first impression too.SnoopyTheGoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-72662353448796402362011-07-11T09:39:57.635+03:002011-07-11T09:39:57.635+03:00Oh, sure.Oh, sure.SnoopyTheGoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-13960744029786525092011-07-11T09:39:38.395+03:002011-07-11T09:39:38.395+03:00While my approach to conversion is very close to y...While my approach to conversion is very close to yours, Noga, I beg to differ on the first paragraph. Many of the non-Jewish repartriants to Israel, esp. from the nineties, don't really have any feelings towards Judaism in the best case and negative feelings in the worst. A good percentage of them came over due to mundane economic reasons and/or because the spouse or other relative came.<br /><br />As you may know, quite a lot of spontaneous demonstrations of anti-Semitism were and are being observed here as a result.<br /><br />But of course, I agree, the conversion process should be relaxed, as it was a few millennia ago.<br /><br />However, if you expect many conversions due to beauty of the synagogue buildings, you may be sorely disappointed ;)SnoopyTheGoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-25280932836306065562011-07-11T02:31:01.629+03:002011-07-11T02:31:01.629+03:00Reminds me of the Bible Quiz answers given by Cath...Reminds me of the Bible Quiz answers given by Catholic Children.<br /><br />Thanks...I needed the laugh.Katienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-63604383727727326022011-07-10T18:33:37.805+03:002011-07-10T18:33:37.805+03:00Doing laundry for a Jewish family. Why, yes, that ...Doing laundry for a Jewish family. Why, yes, that should qualify.Dick Stanleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-44643082216150570702011-07-10T17:52:00.611+03:002011-07-10T17:52:00.611+03:00These stories are like the records from the Spanis...These stories are like the records from the Spanish Inquisition which interrogated conversos suspected of doing Jewish despite several generation of baptism. Thus you could hear that Hannuka was "the small Christmas" that came before the big Christmas. One conversa confessed that she felt obliged to say the Shema everyday, or else she might endanger her immortal soul in its last flight to meet Jesus. It comes from having some knowledge but no real intellectual infrastructure to explain some practices.<br /><br />My friend Alla, 40 years in Israel and still "a Russian", told me her brother married a Mongol woman whose friends testified in the rabbinical court as to her pristine Jewish lineage. His son became an ultra orthodox rabbi, but not before he underwent a period of being a self-hating Jew in New York. Go figure. <br /><br />The rabbis are tres passe. It is my position and if I had the talent for it I would have created a political party to promote the idea that Judaism ought to be an openly proslytizing religion welcoming anyone who wants to become Jewish be one, without having to resort to subterfuge. If anyone who walks by a synagogue and, struck by the beauty of the building, feels he or she would like to be a member of a congregation that convenes I such a place, the doors should fly open to welcome him/her. Any reason would do.Noganoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-87577606667689133952011-07-10T14:05:14.436+03:002011-07-10T14:05:14.436+03:00I am considering laying off bacon soon. And that h...I am considering laying off bacon soon. And that habit of Sunday school...SnoopyTheGoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-31431943200774027212011-07-10T13:32:03.405+03:002011-07-10T13:32:03.405+03:00Very funny Snoopy but I had no idea that you were ...Very funny Snoopy but I had no idea that you were Jewish yourself!jams o donnellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-26510441681287292942011-07-10T13:04:43.421+03:002011-07-10T13:04:43.421+03:00He he he. Hametz is still sold every year. No sign...He he he. Hametz is still sold every year. No significant diminishing of stocks noticed by anyone.SnoopyTheGoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-46832603840851473652011-07-10T11:56:20.539+03:002011-07-10T11:56:20.539+03:00A delight! I remember a possibly apocryphal story ...A delight! I remember a possibly apocryphal story about the Arab to whom the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi sold Israel's chametz each year. A newspaper asked him if he was happy to perform this service for the Jews, what with the intifada and everything. "Sure," he replied, "I've never had any problems with the Jews. For one thing, my mum is Jewish!"No Good Boyonoreply@blogger.com