no its usually my fave
― s1ocki, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
i bought kosher for passover coke yesterday. it's delicious.
― right thread, Ned (mizzell), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
ooh nice
― s1ocki, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's like thanksgiving, in april, without bread
― cutty, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
OH SHIT PASSOVER COKE. Need.
― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am going to a seder (my first), but because the hostess can't do it on the usual night(s), we're doing it on the 18th. Pseudo-seder. But I'm still psyched. Might try to sort of keep kosher-ish just to see what it's like.
Ooooh and I'm in charge of making charoset for the pseudo-seder, so recipes pls!
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol i read that coke thing really wrong.xposts
― tehresa, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
Also: how much hebrew vs. english at your seder?
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
I never understood why anything other than unleavened bread is necessary though? I mean no bread as a symbol/reminder of events passed makes sense, keeping kosher out of respect for the period I can see, but, like not being allowed to eat corn? What's up with that?
― mehlt, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
um are you unfamiliar with the passover story or what
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh snap
― s1ocki, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
During Passover, Jews refrain from eating chometz: anything that contains barley, wheat, rye, oats, and spelt, and is not cooked within 18 minutes after coming in contact with water. No leavening is allowed. This signifies the fact that the Hebrews had no time to let their bread rise as they made a hurried escape from Egypt. Jews of different backgrounds do not observe all of the same rules. Ashkenazi Jews, who come from Europe (most Jews in America), also avoid corn, rice, peanuts, and legumes as they are also used to make bread and may have other grains mixed in. These items are known as kitniyot.
― mizzell, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
I thought it was anything that swells in contact with water? Or something like that. No corn syrup, in any case, which gives us delicious REAL SUGAR COKE.
― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Torah instructs a Jew not to eat (or even possess) chometz all seven days of Passover (Exodus 13:3). "Chometz" is defined as any of the five grains (wheat, spelt, barley, oats, and rye) that came into contact with water for more than 18 minutes. This is a serious Torah prohibition, and for that reason we take extra protective measures on Passover to prevent any mistakes.
Which brings us to another category of food called "kitniyot" (sometimes referred to generically as "legumes"). This includes rice, corn, soy beans, string beans, peas, lentils, peanuts, mustard, sesame seeds and poppy seeds. Even though kitniyot cannot technically become chometz, Ashkenazi Jews do not eat them on Passover. Why?
The Smak (Rabbi Moshe of Kouchi, 13th century, France) explains that products of kitniyot appear like chometz products. For example, it can be hard to distinguish between rice flour (kitniyot) and wheat flour (chometz). Therefore, to prevent confusion, all kitniyot was prohibited.
― mizzell, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm throwing myself in with the Sephardic camp this year.
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
Take a Hot Dogand make it Kosher
― the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh makes more sense, and yes, I know the story, but I'm wondering why go so much further than just bread, I mean, Matzah is just unleavened bread, still has wheat in it and all, it's not like they didn't have enough time to cook pasta when escaping Egypt.
― mehlt, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
Keep hearing the spoken intro to "One Step Beyond" when I see this thread title.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Which is to say, eating corn is a long ways away from letting bread rise.
― mehlt, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
Don't eat that - EAT THIS
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
passover is a great holiday.G R E A T
BUT, the Haggadahs have not arrived in the mail from my grandfather yet and I'm also getting a bit nervous about seating... also, anyone have a good veggie matzoh ball soup recipe? vegetarians certainly won't eat teh brisket.
― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
good god how do vegetarians ever survive during Passover without the grains?
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
apparently quinoa is ok.
― mizzell, Monday, 6 April 2009 16:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
good to qui-know-a
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
Seven days of quinoa and matzah sounds . . . constipating.
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
Can we turn this thread also into a list of all of the awesome things about being jewish in general?
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
1. Chosen people.2. Latkes
― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
3. Talmud
― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
4. hot sabbath sex
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
5. Neuroses
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
6. control of the media/money
― quincie, Monday, April 6, 2009 11:58 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This may explain my increased secularism that started around the time I became vegetarian.
― mehlt, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
6. Noodle kugel
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
7. Tikkun olam as commandment
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
7. anything heimische...
― suggest bánh mi (suzy), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
8. Lady rabbis (in non-Orthodox movements)
― quincie, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
9. All our base
― the drummer from the hilarious 1990's Britpop act Gay Dad (wanko ergo sum), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
Tikkun olam is my favorite part of Judaism ever. Concept and metaphor equally awesome.
― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Golders Green and St. Louis Park eruvs.
― suggest bánh mi (suzy), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
10. sense of humor
― cutty, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
what's the deal with "rabbi jose" btw
― CNTFACE (omar little), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
11. Woody Allen movies
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
vicky cristina barcelona?
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
12. Tongue (not explicitly Jewish I know)
― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
no thx
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
13. Philip Roth14. Having an entire holiday dedicated to alcohol (Purim)15. Klezmer
― Mordy, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
14. Having an entire holiday dedicated to alcohol (Purim)
^^^this
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
13. Philip David Lee Roth
fixed
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
Today there's a blessing you can make on the sun that can only be made like once every 25 years. That's pretty cool.
― Mordy, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, klezmer wildly OTM but I find Roth totally 100% repellent.
― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
according to the brooklyn paper this is only the 3rd time in history that the sun is in the same position during passover that it was when it was first created
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
gah, I don't know why that won't embed. anyway, enjoy.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 02:51 (2 months ago) Permalink
DId someone already post this?http://mobile.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2006/04/the_twominute_haggadah.b.html
― a kissed out red popemobile (Trayce), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:53 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/03/31/berlin_jew_in_the_box_ehibit_stirs_controversy.html
step one. put a jew in a box.
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 March 2013 18:25 (2 months ago) Permalink
better than tilda swinton if you ask me
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Sunday, 31 March 2013 18:28 (2 months ago) Permalink
i wish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimouna celebrations were more common
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
from fb:
a friend translated the hebrew text below the pic:
What is the Mimuna about?My grandmother told me that in Morocco, Passover was the one week that Muslims and Jews were apart. All year, they would sit together, eat drink, drink, talk, laugh, and raise their children together. However, on Passover, because it was forbidden for Jews to eat chametz at their neighbors' they would separate a bit. Therefore, they came up with the custom of Mimuna, so that their neighbors would understand that the reason they didn't get together over the course of the week was because of the holiday - and not because they didn't want to be friends. It was important for them to demonstrate their love and closeness, and therefore they made a large feast that all of the neighbors were invited to. It is a celebration of hospitality, of neighborliness, and of coexistence.
My grandmother told me that in Morocco, Passover was the one week that Muslims and Jews were apart. All year, they would sit together, eat drink, drink, talk, laugh, and raise their children together. However, on Passover, because it was forbidden for Jews to eat chametz at their neighbors' they would separate a bit. Therefore, they came up with the custom of Mimuna, so that their neighbors would understand that the reason they didn't get together over the course of the week was because of the holiday - and not because they didn't want to be friends. It was important for them to demonstrate their love and closeness, and therefore they made a large feast that all of the neighbors were invited to. It is a celebration of hospitality, of neighborliness, and of coexistence.
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:04 (2 months ago) Permalink
i think this is pretty good at speaking to an issue that isn't always represented accurately: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-outreach-revolution/
In off-the-record interviews with outreach workers associated with Chabad, Aish HaTorah, Modern Orthodox organizations, and community kollelim, I received the same response, sometimes offered with a shrug, sometimes with strong conviction: If the Jews whom I have taught and mentored become more active in their Reform or Conservative synagogues, they say, or in their federations or Israel-oriented organizations, or in their willingness to marry another Jew and raise a Jewish family of any kind, I consider that to be a success.A good many non-Orthodox leaders probably would respond to this flat assertion with incredulity, for it has become an article of faith that Orthodox outreach is cult-like and intentionally designed to raid the non-Orthodox sectors of the Jewish community. With a few exceptions, this is simply false. In fact, what is actually happening is far more interesting: Kiruv has become a powerful vehicle for re-engaging Jews with the non-Orthodox sectors of the community. Leading members of Conservative and Reform synagogues attend Chabad educational programs or community kollel study sessions and then return to their home congregations, probably as better-informed Jews. Individuals who have had little contact with organized Jewish life are turned on to Judaism by kiruv workers and in many cases find their way into non-Orthodox synagogues or secular organizations.Their numbers are not negligible. Though no one has collected definitive figures, a quick back-of-the-envelope estimate yields eye-opening results: Assuming that there are between 5,000 and 7,000 kiruv workers today and each interacts annually with an average of no more than 100 non-Orthodox Jews (a conservative figure given the size of most Chabad centers and the popularity of kiruv events sponsored by other organizations), the collective impact of Orthodox outreach may touch between a half million and 700,000 Jews each year, rivaling the impact of the Conservative and Reform movements, and in the majority of cases complementing and enhancing the work of those important movements.
A good many non-Orthodox leaders probably would respond to this flat assertion with incredulity, for it has become an article of faith that Orthodox outreach is cult-like and intentionally designed to raid the non-Orthodox sectors of the Jewish community. With a few exceptions, this is simply false. In fact, what is actually happening is far more interesting: Kiruv has become a powerful vehicle for re-engaging Jews with the non-Orthodox sectors of the community. Leading members of Conservative and Reform synagogues attend Chabad educational programs or community kollel study sessions and then return to their home congregations, probably as better-informed Jews. Individuals who have had little contact with organized Jewish life are turned on to Judaism by kiruv workers and in many cases find their way into non-Orthodox synagogues or secular organizations.
Their numbers are not negligible. Though no one has collected definitive figures, a quick back-of-the-envelope estimate yields eye-opening results: Assuming that there are between 5,000 and 7,000 kiruv workers today and each interacts annually with an average of no more than 100 non-Orthodox Jews (a conservative figure given the size of most Chabad centers and the popularity of kiruv events sponsored by other organizations), the collective impact of Orthodox outreach may touch between a half million and 700,000 Jews each year, rivaling the impact of the Conservative and Reform movements, and in the majority of cases complementing and enhancing the work of those important movements.
― Mordy, Monday, 8 April 2013 21:54 (2 months ago) Permalink
The history of song & dance Hava Nagila movie doc is at the West End Theatre in W. DC
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44219/hava-nagila-reviewed-the-story-of-americas-favorite-nigun-told/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 April 2013 14:13 (1 month ago) Permalink
my jew b-day is tnite/tmmrw :)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 02:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
chag sameach mordy
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
wait no
yom huledet sameach
as we would sing in a linguistically suspect fashion to the happy birthday song at shul when I was small
http://jewishmorocco.blogspot.com/
blog for fans of Jewish Moroccan music
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
happy jewish bday!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:18 (1 month ago) Permalink
mazels on your "j-date"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/hashtagjewbrag
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Friday, 10 May 2013 17:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://forward.com/articles/176823/reform-rabbi-urges-hebrew-union-college-to-reconsi/
― Mordy , Friday, 17 May 2013 20:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
:/
man some of those comments are whoa
― quincie, Friday, 17 May 2013 20:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
I am still not a jew, but I felt this thread may enjoy that a local group was able to register jewishfoodfair.com for their event this weekend. Why would this domain not be in high demand?
― tweeship journey to 51 (mh), Friday, 17 May 2013 20:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
― quincie, Friday, May 17, 2013 3:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah. but i guess i embrace a third position: the sooner we all assimilate and become secular the better.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 May 2013 22:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
i just mean assimilate to secularism, not give up all traces of jewish cultural practice & tradition btw
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 May 2013 22:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
last I checked even Reconstructionist Rabbinical College had a quiet policy of not admitting people partnered with non-Jews, though it's possible that that's been revisited since they merged with JRF.
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Saturday, 18 May 2013 00:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
hm, still extant in the catalog, "An applicant who is married to or in a committed relationship with a non-Jewish partner will not be admitted to the rabbinical program."
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Saturday, 18 May 2013 00:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
I had no idea about these policies, and they make me really sad. Also pissed, and embarrassed.
― quincie, Saturday, 18 May 2013 00:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
2 questions for hey jews:
1. should i attend this event?
2. should i liveblog it???
― Mordy , Wednesday, 22 May 2013 23:50 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
just made myself some matzah brei with maple syrup. <3
― Operation Gypsy Dildo (silby), Sunday, 9 June 2013 01:10 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/birthright-alumni-marry-later-and-are-more-likely-to-marry-jewish.premium-1.529422
His latest findings show that among Birthright participants involved in interfaith marriages, 13 percent had spouses who underwent formal conversions. Among members of the non-participant group, formal conversions were almost non-existent. In general, Birthright participants are far more likely to marry within the faith than are non-participants. The latest research shows that 73 percent of participants in the program ultimately marry other Jews, as compared with just 50 percent among non-participants.
― Mordy , Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
correlation vs. causation
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:15 (1 week ago) Permalink
dramatic either way
― Mordy , Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:18 (1 week ago) Permalink