HEY JEWS

i got this email today:

http://www.chabad.org/mychabad/email/article_cdo/aid/1957247

As America finds itself in the throes of a highly contentious election season, Jews worldwide are gearing up for an "election" of a different sort: the Rosh Hashanah "Coronation" of the Almighty as King of the Universe (September 16-18).

By attending synagogue, offering up prayers, hearing the sounds of the Shofar and partaking of the holiday festivities, we will not only be "casting our votes" in favor of G‑d's renewed Sovereignty over the world and Providence over our lives, we will also be submitting our "petitions" that He inscribe us and our loved ones for a happy, healthy and sweet New Year.

― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

lol

― ask morbs if he is better off than he was 4 days ago (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

who is the opposition

― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/Theology/Suffering_and_Evil/satan.shtml maybe?

― Mordy, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:11 (9 months ago) Permalink

im voting nader

― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:15 (9 months ago) Permalink

In the months leading up to the filter’s implementation, student publications revealed that YU Arevim, an anonymous student group of self-proclaimed pornography addicts, had been heavily invested in the issue. In an article published in The Commentator on December 9, 2011, Benjamin Abramowitz wrote that the YU Arevim approached the administration with the idea of a network-wide installation of Covenant Eyes – an effort to sidestep the idea of a filter while still allowing for some level of accountability online. The suggestion was shot down by RIETS faculty as being too “big brother.” Indeed, Rabbi Reiss insisted that under no circumstances would the new filtration system store information about individual users’ Internet viewing history.

http://www.yucommentator.org/2012/09/new-internet-filters-block-pornographic-content-in-dorms/

― Mordy, Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

― Mordy, Friday, 14 September 2012 14:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

i like this one too

― Mordy, Friday, 14 September 2012 14:32 (9 months ago) Permalink

That is nice

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:22 (9 months ago) Permalink

are hey jews fasting yom kippur or probably not?

― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

dunno maybe. Probably going to go to Kol Nidre tomorrow night though because our cantor chanting it in her gorgeous soprano provides me with pretty much all the spiritual sustenance I need for a year.

― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

I am being a bad non-Jew this year. Didn't get my act together to get tickets; probably not going to fast but what the hell, maybe I will? Seems dumb to fast without doing anything else to observe.

I would like to do the crumbs in the river thing. Name is escaping me at the moment. . . last year, when I took down my crumbs, someone had already been there with crumbs! This made me so happy. I felt, like, at one with a community, somehow.

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

tashlikh

― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yes! I remembered that it started with a "t"

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

you can do tashlikh up until hoshana rabba (7th day of sukkot) - i haven't done it yet either

― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

I fast in sympathy with my wife, but when she gives in - and she always does - I give it up.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:11 (8 months ago) Permalink

Did not know that. I knew of the organized tashlikh that many synagogues do at Rosh Hashanah time. I'm gonna fast and go to a reform service (that does a surprisingly large amount of prayers in Hebrew)

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

that's a x-post

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

"So to greet a Jew on Yom Kippur say, “G’mar chatimah tovah” – “May you end up with a good inscription.” If that’s too much of a mouthful, “G’mar tov,” – “Finish well,” works just fine. "

I have never said "G'mar tov"

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

Or recall it being said to me

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

hey jews - easy fasts to those fasting and g'mar chasimah tovah

― Mordy, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

^^^ditto from me!

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 23:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.etsy.com/listing/105423148/menorah-lodge-jewish-frat-picture

― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 October 2012 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

Anyone have any suggestions on good histories of the Jews? I'm looking for something that isn't overly mythic/heroic -- it doesn't have to be lefty revisionism, but I don't want a story of a magical people who are destined to rebuild the temple either. I'm also open to multiple books covering different periods, as long as they're not too micro (single century, specific ghetto, etc.). I guess I'm mainly in something that addresses (1) the migration of Jews and (2) the evolution of the body of religious and cultural traditions we have come to think of as "Judaism"

― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

this is what you're looking for; enjoy:
http://www.amazon.com/History-Jewish-People-Hayim-Ben-Sasson/dp/0674397312

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

after that, figure out exactly what time period you want to learn about bc jewish history is really long and closer readings of particular eras are more valuable than broad survey imho

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

also maybe
http://www.amazon.com/Social-Religious-History-Wittmayer-Baron/dp/0231088566/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349901606&sr=8-1&keywords=salo+baron

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

Is this any good?

http://www.amazon.com/Jews-History-50th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0451529405/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1349901418&sr=8-4&keywords=history+of+the+jews#_

― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

this is new and historiographic: http://www.amazon.com/Prophets-Past-Interpreters-Jewish-History/dp/0691139288/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349901677&sr=1-1&keywords=prophets+of+the+past

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

i don't know it. probably not? i mean, it might be interesting to read but it's not known in the field afaik

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

what you're asking for is kinda gargantuan - like asking for a good history of western civ

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

i have that ben sasson book!

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 23:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

but I don't want a story of a magical people who are destined to rebuild the temple either.

what's funny is that i can recommend a book if you're looking for a story of magical people who are destined to rebuild the temple, too.

http://www.amazon.com/Berel-Wein/e/B001JSFBTC <-- the king of jewish hagiography, he also has an audio history series

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 23:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

damn i wanna see this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT-wLYeeSRE

― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

mordy did you ever see an israeli movie called LATE MARRIAGE

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

no - should i?

― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

yeah, it's great. not relevant to anything in particular being talked about here, but a really really strong and overlooked film. it's on netflix streaming if you have that.

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

i'll def check it out

― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/10/jewish_jocks_franklin_foer_on_his_new_book_about_the_greatest_jewish_athletes.html

― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

Renee Richards, Bobby Fishcer and Howard Cosell? Oy vey

― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

i'll probably get it tho. i liked foer's soccer book.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/mitt_romney_and_the_gop_s_plans_to_woo_florida_jews_from_barack_obama_appear.html

― Mordy, Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/post/34232799613/from-james-deen-vs-the-nebbishes-men-in-porn

― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

There's something strange about the syntax of calling someone a "pornographic performer." It makes it sound as if his performances are pornographic, whether or not they're in the context of porn.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

another scene ends with Deen ejaculating onto a sheet of matzah clenched in two women’s teeth.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:53 (7 months ago) Permalink

Wait, what thread is this? Is this I Love Jewish Fetish Porn?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

I grew up in a jewish neighborhood (hassidim) and my parents are stick in the mud atheists from christian descendance, however, for some reasons I've been drawn to judaism/jewish culture all my life. I was 7, somebody asked my religion and I answered judaism, because well, I don't know, back then it made sense, I visited synagoges and thought they were beautiful places and eated jewish food and found it delicious. I've made short films about the hassidim community around me and I read a lot on jewish culture. Recently I visited the Ghriba synagoge in Tunisia, and it made very emotional. Yet, I'll never be jewish really, which lead to a lot of confusion, guilt and grief. There. I needed to confess that.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

whoa.

which van horn street does your name refer to?

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 25 October 2012 20:53 (7 months ago) Permalink

the one that goes from CDN to the Mile-End. I'm a Outremont kid.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 25 October 2012 20:58 (7 months ago) Permalink

xpost Reminds me of the hilarious Maurice Sendak anecdote:

I mean, we lived next to the Sicilians and I had a real - it sounds like coy conceit, but it's a fact. I had a real confusion because right across the hall from us was my best friend at one place we lived, Carmine, and his sisters and brothers and his huge mother and huge father. And I used to run across the hall because they had un-Kosher food, which was much better, much better than Kosher food because it was - it was pasta. It was great Italian cooking. And they laughed, and they drank wine, and they grabbed me, and I sat on their laps, and they had a hell of a good time. And then you come back to my house and you have this sober cuisine and not so rambunctious family life. And I really did have a confusion that Italians were happy Jews, that they were a sect.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 October 2012 21:04 (7 months ago) Permalink