Its specific epithet is derived from the belief that Judas Iscariot hanged himself from an elder tree; the common name "Judas's ear" eventually became "Jew's ear", while today "jelly ear" and other names are sometimes used. The fungus can be found throughout the year in temperate regions worldwide, where it grows upon both dead and living wood.
Ah yes, the well known Chinese fable of Judas Iscariot
― 龜, Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le8h71ERGH1qatgzn.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/08/19/taiwan-restaurant-apologizes-for-pasta-dish-called-long-live-the-nazis/
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
The Nazi swastika and other icons related to the white supremacist political ideal aren’t uncommon on this island. Last year, a man was photographed by local media dressed in full SS soldier uniform while attending an anti-homosexuality parade. When asked about his choice of attire, the man was quoted by local media as saying “I am against homosexuality and so were the Nazis.”
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
I was wondering when that would make its way to this thread
― 龜, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
get along GREAT
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
“I am against homosexuality and so were the Nazis.”
O RLYhttp://www.excatholicsforchrist.com/images/bormann.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
lol whoops that's Bormann - mixing up my Nazis!http://s4.hubimg.com/u/2502279_f520.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
As for Rockmill, the restaurant has since changed the name of its dishes to “Long Live Purity.”
Not really much of an improvement tbh
― poop will eat itself (S-), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/shanghai-museum-unveils-memorial-to-jews-who-found-haven-in-city/
I've been here!
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
the father of my rabbi from my childhood (who is the head of the beis din of philadelphia and who did my sister's conversion) was one of the students who survived w/ the Mir by moving to Shanghai.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
wait why did your sister have to convert? I mean I guess the obvious answer "she was not born to a Jewish mother" but I dunno maybe something more complicated than that?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
yes, adoption
― Mordy, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
the father of my rabbi from my childhood (who is the head of the beis din of philadelphia and who did my sister's conversion) was one of the students who survived w/ the Mir by moving to Shanghai.― Mordy, Wednesday, September 3, 2014 5:03 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mordy, Wednesday, September 3, 2014 5:03 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my grandpa was from that town (as were many jews), but his family went to the US in 1915
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
ah OK, I was picturing some kind of complicated "hung with the reform crowd and now orthodox rabbi sez u need some conversion to orthodoxy" type thing. I dunno I make up weird stuff sometimes. Mo mikvah, mo better.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 4 September 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link
cross-post
http://www.boston.com/food-dining/restaurants/2014/12/09/harvard-business-school-professor-goes-war-over-worth-chinese-food/KfMaEhab6uUY1COCnTbrXP/story.html
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/exclusive-texted-union-rep-akai-gurley-lay-dying-article-1.2034219
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Not what I had in mind when I started this thread.
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/why-american-jews-eat-chinese-food-on-christmas/384011/2/
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 27 December 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I had Taiwanese food on Christmas--beef with pea shoots, totally legit dish. Spouse had sesame chicken. Not legit but tasty.
FTR spouse and dayo have, in fact, dined at Fortune Cookie in Shanghai. I missed it because I was getting my hairs did :(
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 27 December 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
^ It was very good
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
http://forward.com/articles/211233/the-last-jewish-lox-slicer-at-zabars/
https://u.osu.edu/symposiumonchinajews/
― dylannn, Sunday, 18 January 2015 09:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/10/384069013/part-asian-american-all-jewish
― 龜, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Once, she even told her mother she wanted to give up Judaism. "Is that possible?" her mother asked.
The perpetual metaphysical quandary of Jewishness.
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:33 (nine years ago) link
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/kaifeng-china-jewish-roots-passover/?_r=0
― 龜, Monday, 6 April 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2j0yTlfSGk
― 龜, Friday, 4 September 2015 12:06 (nine years ago) link
lol @ ISRAEL text message
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 4 September 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
awww that is making me feel all emo
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
ha maybe it's supposed to be a dude named Israel texting?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOse8IoxUTI
― écorché (S-), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 04:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/196382/chinas-secrets-of-jewish-success
In the best-seller The Spirit of Jewish Culture (the English title on the cover is Whats [sic] Behind Jewish Cleverness) by Sai Ni Ya, one of He Xiongfei’s pseudonyms, he writes that Jews “are the most intelligent, mysterious, and the wealthiest people in the world. In a sense, not knowing about Jews equals not knowing the world! When Jews sneeze at home, all the banks in the world would catch a cold one by one. Five Jews together can control the gold market of the humankind; the antagonism between the East and the West, in a sense, can be said to be that between two Jews—Jesus and Marx.”
― Mordy, Monday, 25 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Oy
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 January 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Vey
Five Jews together can control the gold market of the humankind;
let's do this
― • (sleepingbag), Monday, 25 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
hang on let me clear with the Elders of Zion first
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 January 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
When you take over, please remember who started this thread!
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Five Jews sounds like the next hip bagel joint
― broderik f (darraghmac), Monday, 25 January 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
H invited our neighbors (two kids who are watched during the day by their Chinese grandmother) for an impromptu playdate after seeing the grandmother (who speaks virtually no English and cares for the kids) roaming the hallways in boredom. The grandmother went to her apartment and came back with an envelope with $20 in it for Chinese New Year. Are we supposed to give her/them something in return?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
I mean if we just give THEM $20, doesn't that defeat the purpose? But if we give them more, it seems competitive and if we give less it seems cheap. So how does this work?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
don't give anything but maybe invite them to dinner later
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
ooh yeah, power move
― goole, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
That's a good idea. Parents are really nice -- they've gotten our kids birthday gifts (and we did the same in return) even though we haven't really had the change to hang out.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m3kucf1.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/718161821270585344
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 April 2016 19:50 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Jewish_common_ancestry_theory
― 龜, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Courtesy bump for Christmas.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 24 December 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Love Jews, love China, all good. Merry Christmas!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 24 December 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
Wait I don't actually love Jared Kushner, just need to point that out.
i got my christmas chinese takeout - place was packed
― Mordy, Sunday, 25 December 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link