HEY JEWS

are hey jews fasting yom kippur or probably not?

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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.

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.

tashlikh

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

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

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

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)

that's a x-post

"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"

Or recall it being said to me

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

^^^ditto from me!

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

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"

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

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

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

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#_

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

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

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

i have that ben sasson book!

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

damn i wanna see this

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

mordy did you ever see an israeli movie called LATE MARRIAGE

no - should i?

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.

i'll def check it out

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

Renee Richards, Bobby Fishcer and Howard Cosell? Oy vey

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

whoa.

which van horn street does your name refer to?

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

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.

nice

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/files/ap_racial_attitudes_topline_09182012.pdf

The survey was conducted during the first week of September. It asked 1,071 random adults, “Do you happen to know the religion of each of the following people? If you don’t know, you can mark that too.”

The results for President Barack Obama are as follows:

Protestant — 28%
Catholic — 5%
Mormon — 0%
Jewish — 18%
Muslim — 10%
Other religion — 2%
No religion — 35%
Don’t know — 2%
Refused/Not Answered — 28%

wait, people thought he was those religions or people of those religions knew his religion?

people thought he was those religions

some people think barack obama is jewish?

ehh not really buying that

unless there been some ZOG cable show recently that completely overwhelms all the plausible accounts of obama's submission to allah

you're watching ZOGTV

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