HEY JEWS

Keep hearing the spoken intro to "One Step Beyond" when I see this thread title.

Which is to say, eating corn is a long ways away from letting bread rise.

Keep hearing the spoken intro to "One Step Beyond" when I see this thread title.

Don't eat that - EAT THIS

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.

good god how do vegetarians ever survive during Passover without the grains?

apparently quinoa is ok.

good to qui-know-a

Seven days of quinoa and matzah sounds . . . constipating.

Can we turn this thread also into a list of all of the awesome things about being jewish in general?

1. Chosen people.
2. Latkes

3. Talmud

4. hot sabbath sex

5. Neuroses

6. control of the media/money

good god how do vegetarians ever survive during Passover without the grains?

― 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.

6. Noodle kugel

7. Tikkun olam as commandment

7. anything heimische...

8. Lady rabbis (in non-Orthodox movements)

9. All our base

Tikkun olam is my favorite part of Judaism ever. Concept and metaphor equally awesome.

The Golders Green and St. Louis Park eruvs.

10. sense of humor

what's the deal with "rabbi jose" btw

11. Woody Allen movies

vicky cristina barcelona?

12. Tongue (not explicitly Jewish I know)

no thx
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13. Philip Roth
14. Having an entire holiday dedicated to alcohol (Purim)
15. Klezmer

14. Having an entire holiday dedicated to alcohol (Purim)

^^^this

13. Philip David Lee Roth

fixed

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.

Yeah, klezmer wildly OTM but I find Roth totally 100% repellent.

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

^^^^ awesome

going to an orthodox seder as a favor to moms, not looking forward to it (mostly because it goes well past midnight, is an hour and a half away, and i have to work in the morning)

One sucky thing about being Jewish: Often (like this Passover), the two days of Chag run into Shabbat, which means that observant Jews (including my family) will be keeping three days straight of no electricity and such. Almost everyone always secretly cheats around the second day to take showers.

You can take a shower, I thought, you just can't dry off? What if you stood with your arms out until you air dried?

Or put on a big fluffy bathrobe?

my dad is currently trying to make me feel guilty for not going to a sedar

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, April 6, 2009

you and i both know that there is no significance whatsoever to this, though. i read it in the paper.

what did the paper say?

14. Tallits look comfy. Not so different from a snuggy.

xxpost the significance is awesomeness

So kosher for pesach is stricter than regular kosher, right? That would explain why the jewish bagel store down the shops had a big sign saying "NONE OF OUR PRODUCTS ARE KOSHER FOR PASSOVER PLEASE NOTE" which I didn't quite understand til now.

I've said this before, but I'm fascinated by all these traditions and rituals in Judaism. It is very odd, now I think on it, but I grew up knowing absolute zero about Jewish culture. There just werent any orthodox jews in the city I grew up in. Where I live now OTOH is an area concentrated with mainly Hassids and Lubavicts (I think thats right?).

having just finished six months of judaism class i'm ready to drop science at my gf's family's passover

hahaha... make sure you explain the whole "all the days of our lives" thing

HEY JEWS just wanted to say "sup"

hey ice cr?m how about changing your name to c?rvel for passover

done and done - hav a nice holiday!

Haha. I won't keep kosher this year, but we'll have some sort of seder meal. So it's time to break-out the He'Brew Beer, from the Shmaltz Brewing Company.

yeah that part, particularly in a country with such strict gun laws, is pretty flummoxing

Gun violence is far less prevalent in Australia than the USA. But that's also true in about 95% of the countries on earth.

If this is intended to be reassuring to locals before the death count is finalised on the second-largest mass shooting in the history of the country, but is definitely more than double the previous largest in the city — 34 years ago — I promise that it is as misjudged as it is irrelevant.

Gun violence is far less prevalent in Australia than the USA. But that's also true in about 95% of the countries on earth.

Gun violence is far less prevalent in Australia than the USA. But that's also true in about 95% of the countries on earth.

This isn’t very comforting in the wake of a fucking hate crime btw

guys, Aimless was commenting on Zelda's post as to why there wasn't more security at the event, not minimizing it

You must have missed the part of Zelda’s post that that began “I live not far from Bondi.” I believe sic is also Australian. What an American thinks they have to offer in that context is unknown.

i live in sydney too and the post seems clearly well-intentioned and not trying to make light of anything

I think the fact that it is a targeted hate crime matters more than the way in which it was done. Especially in this thread. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You must have missed the part of Zelda’s post that that began “I live not far from Bondi.” I believe sic is also Australian. What an American thinks they have to offer in that context is unknown.

I didn't miss anything, and am not saying Aimless's analysis of why there weren't more security measures is correct or incorrect. I just pointed out that that is what that was, not an attempt to comfort or reassure.

guys, Aimless was commenting on Zelda's post as to why there wasn't more security at the event

what does anything at all about the USA have to do with Zelda’s post

Countries with lower gun violence are less likely to have safety measures in place, was the argument as I read it.

what does anything at all about other countries have to do with Zelda’s post

For that matter, this stuff probably should be discussed in a different thread. Maybe even the shooting spree thread.

speculation about gun violence, the effects of having stricter vs looser gun laws, what police presence was or should have been all seem kind of irrelevant to me tbh. I'm not an expert in gun statistics or event security. I have seen anecdotal complaints from Sydney area residents about antisemitic threats and rhetoric being downplayed or ignored. Hard for me to evaluate any of that either. Whole thing just makes me sick and I don't really have a takeaway from it.

So many people jumping to conclusions. Right-wing american Jew Bob Lefsetz (who gets mocked on ILM for his music industry comments) is blaming the American left and college student protestors and Countries saying Palestine should be recognized as a nation for Australia, while I see on Haaretz that the Israeli government is busy investigating what they are calling an Iranian involvement.

TBQH it seems very clear that it was antisemitic Muslim extremists, that's not really a hard conclusion to jump to. Anything else is more evidence needed. Iran backing attacks on Jews is not exactly unprecedented. If you want to talk about jumping to conclusions, you might also highlight Iranian state media pushing the narrative that this was a false flag.