Like I'm sorry I was mean to surmounter that one time. And to gabbneb many times. Oh geez please tell me I don't have to track down gabbneb to apologize to him in person?
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone else I was mean to on ILX? Speak now or, er, in the next nine days pls.
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
it's all good quincie. let's keep it in the past. it sucked but it's LONG GONE
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks surm! You are a peach and a true asset to ILX. Much <3 to you sorry I was hatin'.
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
waht is Jew School?!
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Monday, 21 September 2009 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
and come you want to be jewish? (serious question)
― DAN P3RRY MAD AT GRANDMA (just1n3), Monday, 21 September 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
favorite fictional jew will always be sid dithers
"San Franciscy? So how did you came, did you drove or did you flew?"
― velko, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
am i the only one who is thinking about Hey Jude while reading this thread?
― Zeno, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey,_Slavs
― 31g, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think that's very funny zeno
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey Juden
― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 21 September 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Pancakes, goyim is plural, you would be a Shabbos goy.
Elvis was a Shabbos goy!
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 21 September 2009 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
One of my teachers told me Colin Powell was also a Shabbos goy!
Not sure I will take the plunge (those familiar with the mikveh will get the pun) and become an actual Jew, but in the meantime I am attending a two-semester conversion course co-sponsored by three Conservative congregations in the area.
Believe me, if you'd have told me I'd be doing this even like five years ago, I'd have told you you were nuts given that I considered myself an atheist! But having stumbled into to Judaic studies I've found a lot that resonates. We'll see how it goes. At the very least I am filling in a gaping hole in my education--I have never taken so much as a comparative religion course in college. And nothing from my Episcopal upbringing stuck.
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to see Inglorious Basterds on Sat night
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 September 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
What is a 'shabbos goy' exactly? It sounds quite cool. Is it demanding?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 21 September 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
During Shabbot, many/most traditional (i.e. Orthodox) Jews observe prohibitions against things like turning lights off and on, mowing the lawn, etc.; some hire (ahead of time, as conducting business/using money is also prohibited during Shabbot) other people (i.e. non-Jews) to do these things for them on that day. I don't know if this is commonly practiced any more?
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
It is! My dad's wife had a job as the accounts manager for a bagel factory run by Orthodox Israelis in St Paul and found herself shabbos goying for them whenever they needed help on dark Friday afternoons etc.
― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Monday, 21 September 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been a shabbos goy on two occasions! Turning stove burners off/down/up once, fixing a fridge light the other time.
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Monday, 21 September 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
it sounds like an unanswerable argument for diaspora living
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 21 September 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Any of you Jews fasting today?
― Mordy, Monday, 21 September 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Why would a Jew do that? Next Monday, yes (Yom Kippur). But if there is a day-after-second-day-of-Rosh-Hashana fast, I have yet to learn about it.
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought you were supposed to fast between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (fwiw, I am not. I even ate crab last night oooh)
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 September 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently it is a fast day, although i can't imagine non-orthodox jews observe it:Tishrei 3rd is a fast day mourning the assassination of the Jewish royal Gedaliah ben Achikam, governor of the Land of Israel for a short period following the destruction of the First Temple. Gedaliah's killing spelled the end of the small remnant of a Jewish community that remained in the Holy Land after the destruction, which fled to Egypt. (According to many opinions, the assassination of Gedaliah actually occurred on Rosh Hashanah, but the commemoration of the event is postponed to the day after the festival).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 21 September 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
OH yeah now I do remember reading something about that! Yeah I don't know anyone who fasts for that.
Yom Kippur fasting tips would be appreciated, though.
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Tip #1: Don't accidentally eat anything.
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Monday, 21 September 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
are "energy gels" considered food?
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 21 September 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
well given that water is a no-no, I'm gonna go with energy gel=food.
― quincie, Monday, 21 September 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Eat kreplach before the fast starts.
― Mordy, Monday, 21 September 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
what would be a nice thing to say to a Jew today?
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Monday, 21 September 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
shana tova
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 21 September 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
or anything except "hey jew"
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 21 September 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"what would be a nice thing to say to a Jew today?
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), 19:04 יום שני 21 ספטמבר 2009 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkshana tova"
also: gmar hatima tova
― Zeno, Monday, 21 September 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
also: you have a nice tuchas
― bnw, Monday, 21 September 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^always good to hear
― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 September 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
HEY! (HEY!)JEWS! (JEWS!)I DON'T LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND
― merked, Monday, 21 September 2009 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
So at the reform Rosh Hashanah service I went to they blew the shofar (actually they had 4 people blowing them) even though it was Shabbat/the Sabbath (they do not blow the shofar on Shabbat in Conservative and Orthodox synagogues), and the Rabbi had his sermon on his Mac (not handwritten notes). Wow.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
OK and I thought "What a Wonderful World" sing-along was bad.
Hey Jews FYI last night in Jew School I learned that according to the Talmud, pickle liquor does not count as food/drink on Yom Kippur. So I will be taking a flask of pickle juice to services.
― quincie, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
yall i had the most amazing jewish-hungarian food in budapest last week, thank you so much for existing for 5000 years and undergoing countless acts of persecution so you could bring me stuffed goose neck and cabbage noodles
― fleetwood (max), Sunday, 27 September 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
You could say we invented comfort food.
― moley, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i didnt know stuffed goose is an hungarian dish?!more like goulash and stuffed cabbage...
― Zeno, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
easy fast, jews!
― Mordy, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
more like an easy 24 hours stay at home for me.i'm not fasting, but i gotta finish this book..
― Zeno, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
g'mar hativah tova!
― quincie, Sunday, 27 September 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
oy gevalt
― one less mouth to feed is one less mouth to feed (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Tattoo jew. I could do.
― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
some of those tats are pretty sweet
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Jorgen101
Why should I care about this? Christians adopted a "fresher" take on their religion and gave the world Stryper, Evanescence, and Creed. Screw religion.13 minutes ago | Reply | Like | Report abuse
ronen
A "fresher" take Jorgen101? Yes, how could we forget "Christian freshness" spawned Hitler, the KKK, Southern Baptist lynchings, African American Slave trade, and an entirely beautiful re-versioning that Jesus himself wasn't really Jewish but somehow a blonde-haired, blue eyed Aryan. Thank you for "freshening" up Religion Jorgen101, I'm sure everyone's money donations in the collection bins on Sunday would be greatly appreciated and everyone needs to convert to the "fresher" religion, because we all know through history what happens to those who choose not to convert ;) you're quite the intellect here on this CNN discussion. less5 minutes ago | Like | Report abuse
ronen has some very challenging opinions, should post here
― velko, Friday, 30 October 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"When I'm on stage screaming, hitting my face with a microphone and pouring beer on my head, at least I'm singing about the Torah," said the 26-year-old founder of PunkTorah, an outreach effort to inspire Jewish spirituality.
UH
― quincie, Friday, 30 October 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh I thought that was awesome
― (oh PORRIDGE) (HI DERE), Friday, 30 October 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
These Internet and media savvy Jews are behind what Ari Wallach, a 34-year-old social entrepreneur and consultant in New York, likes to call "Judaism 2.0."
OY VEY
― quincie, Friday, 30 October 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link