Might've had a party but didn't read from the Torah.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 17:22 (sixteen years ago)
My son says he just skipped class alot but that he worked with a tutor so as to read from the Torah.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:03 (sixteen years ago)
Oh, yeah. I didn't learn to lein from school. I learnt from one of the torah readers from my shul
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:05 (sixteen years ago)
I cried in Hebrew class the other week. Felt like a real Jew!
― quincie, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:09 (sixteen years ago)
Crying made you feel like a real Jew?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:09 (sixteen years ago)
I watched A Serious Man and man did that make me feel like a real jew
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:19 (sixteen years ago)
Jew even
Having a Hebrew school meltdown seemed like a Jewish rite of passage, is all.
― quincie, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:33 (sixteen years ago)
WHY U SO HARD TO LEARN, HEBREW?
― quincie, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:34 (sixteen years ago)
Wait till you try to read it without the vowels. You might need a straight jacket then.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 19:35 (sixteen years ago)
God... 6 years of hebrew school and all I got was an ability to kind of read - but not understand - hebrew, which I'll never have a use for*
*Actually, when I worked at a library archive last year, I was able to match transliterated titles to the original ones instead of checking the book's call number, but that's it.
― EDB, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 21:38 (sixteen years ago)
yeah it is weird that I was basically taught how to read (ie pronounce) a written language but have absolutely no clue what any given words mean or how the language is even structured
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 21:40 (sixteen years ago)
Hey Jews! I'm going to the Kosher Mart later today--what sorts of Pesach-y stuff should I get?
Also, I would like to repost this:
Hey Jews I wrote a little passover ditty, sung to the chorus of "Eye of the Tiger":
It's theBread of affliction It's the bread of the JewsRisen bread--it's not kosher during Pe-sachAnd my boss--says "be careful! It is con-sti-pa-ting"I-don't-care-I-just-ate-sev-en sheeeeeeeeeetsOf the mat-zah
― quincie, Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:44 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:16 (sixteen years ago)
haven't we suffered enough
― for me to chilt on (bnw), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:30 (sixteen years ago)
gluttons for suffering
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:33 (sixteen years ago)
i love quincie's jew fetish
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:39 (sixteen years ago)
srsly I am like 110% more into jews than I am into anything else, including bacon
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:16 (sixteen years ago)
omg I just learned from the WS thread that rashida jones is jewish! This is exciting news!
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:20 (sixteen years ago)
get into the jewsgirl you got to proveyou're a first rate heeeeeeeb, yeah
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:21 (sixteen years ago)
^^^^^ <3 this man, even though he isn't jewish.
― quincie, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:24 (sixteen years ago)
Awwww, how sweet. Is he gonna make matzaball soup for you?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:55 (sixteen years ago)
Hey, quincie, I heard on the radio this morning that some lipsticks might not be kosher for Passover.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:51 (sixteen years ago)
For Passover candy, I like the Joyva Marshmallow Twists. Or the fruit slices.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:55 (sixteen years ago)
I am going to make matzah ball soup next week, though in a kitchen full of chametz.
I have THREE types of matzah at the ready. Need ideas for what to eat it with.
― quincie, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:44 (sixteen years ago)
Not gonna worry about the lipstick given that not even my matzah ball soup is gonna be kosher (planning to use real butter instead of margarine/schmaltz/oil).
― quincie, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:45 (sixteen years ago)
"haven't we suffered enough"
not to mention constipation
― Zeno, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:50 (sixteen years ago)
Look at these pyramid-shaped matzah-balls that some architect cooked (in today's Washington Post Food section)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/23/AR2010032300722.html
I second the marshmallow twists and the fruit slices.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:02 (sixteen years ago)
Vegetarian seder at historic 6th & I synagogue in DC sold out.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 March 2010 14:03 (sixteen years ago)
Passover time Monday
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 March 2010 03:50 (sixteen years ago)
i wish i had a seder to attend. no way am i going to the fucking hillel. always HATED those places.
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 29 March 2010 03:51 (sixteen years ago)
hillel zombies: hey, what USY chapter did you go to? when did you go to israel? isn't it amazing?me: fuck off.
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 29 March 2010 03:52 (sixteen years ago)
I never went to the Hillel ones (was close enough to go home). I am guessing the White House seder that was the subject of a NY Times article yesterday does not resemble the Hillel ones:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28seder.html?scp=1&sq=seder&st=cse
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 March 2010 12:13 (sixteen years ago)
Am going to a conservadox seder tonight! Excited! But then I am switching teams to Reform and not doing a second night seder. I'm ready with the matzoh, though.
― quincie, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:00 (sixteen years ago)
Chag sameach jewbros! I'm going to my parents charedi seder
― Mordy, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:03 (sixteen years ago)
so psyched for SEDER!
― shite new answers (cutty), Monday, 29 March 2010 15:27 (sixteen years ago)
just finished my crazy wonderful seder at which i was somehow one of the only two jews present.
my mom's family didn't host a seder this yr, so i hosted one at my apartment for 15 or so friends for the second yr running. cooked a pot roast and matzoh ball soup from scratch and many other delicious things and they all turned out pretty well (although the soup itself could have been a bit stronger).
i now have mad respect for my bubbes and anyone who does yearly seders because this shit is DIFFICULT - especially when limited to 72 hours of prep time or less.
chag sameach, MoTs
― Alex in Montreal, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 05:29 (sixteen years ago)
reallly missing the seder this year :( last year was fun at my old apartment, and i think this might be the first year i didn't celebrate at all. meant to grab some matzoh ball soup @ the jewish deli on 1st ave but didn't.
― ian, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 05:42 (sixteen years ago)
these egg matzos taste exactly like the plain ones wtf
― quincie, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:50 (sixteen years ago)
The 12 Plagues in peeps form: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17025280@N00/sets/72157600038845249/detail/
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/207/441046093_2437c1534a_m.jpg
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 15:53 (sixteen years ago)
for a holiday without bread there is sure a shit ton of carbs involved
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 17:28 (sixteen years ago)
Weird, cuz usually they don't. What's the brand?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:22 (sixteen years ago)
Manischewitz passover egg "crackers" (i.e., mini matzo)
― quincie, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
tam tams?!
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 21:02 (sixteen years ago)
This thread could use some of this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-v-Pv6KuTg
― ●●●●●●●● (EDB), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 02:51 (sixteen years ago)
^^^not actually Jews, but inspiring nonetheless.
― quincie, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 20:05 (sixteen years ago)
Y'all eating "matzah bri" (scrambled eggs with matzah) and gefilte fish and left-over chicken soup still...I am
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 April 2010 13:59 (sixteen years ago)
I've finished the egg matzah crackers (lol at "according to ashkenazic practice, all egg matzo may be eaten only by the young, infirm or aged. If you are of sephardic ancestry, consult your rabbi.") and am moving on to the Rakusen's Tea Matzos and the Yehuda regular matzah. Have not yet attempted matzah brei, but intend to this weekend.
And I'm having pizza tonight. Not matzah pizza, real pizza. Sorry to let you down, Jews.
― quincie, Thursday, 1 April 2010 16:00 (sixteen years ago)
Obama and oil drilling and now this.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 April 2010 16:23 (sixteen years ago)
To what extent can you justify a tortilla as not-fully- of semi-leavened bread?
― ●●●●●●●● (EDB), Thursday, 1 April 2010 16:23 (sixteen years ago)
hmmm if you are Sephardic and it is a corn tortilla, I think maybe you can get away with it? But no way if you are Askenazic.
― quincie, Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:07 (sixteen years ago)