HEY JEWS

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.

HEY JEWS tell me your favorite things to do with matzah, also CHAROSET RECIPES PLEASE PLEASE

wife is making some kind of matzah brickle this year

fellow traveller was telling me about some sort of matzah and egg fry-up, topped with maple syrup--might try it.

Felt innocent enough to me. This is a topic to discuss things about “Jews” and this event is a major news. I didn’t see it as somebody expecting only Jews would have some insight. Despite being a secular Jew in queens I don’t have any special insight into Chabad Jews in Brooklyn but I felt comfortable answering from what I read in the news. Wasn’t clear to me that the writer wasn’t Jewish, didn’t think about it.

As I said we can disagree. It was more of a NYC question than anything.

You're going to have a different perspective and context than me and that's fine.

And thank you for saying sorry, Andy the Grasshopper.

I saw you saying we can disagree. I just wanted to do so. Considering this is nation-wide news and involves insane anti-semitic conspiracy theorying, I don't think it's a NYC question.

... worldwide.

The bigots are having a field day with this tunnel story. I am glad you answered the way you did.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/marilynne-robinson-on-biblical-beauty-human-evil-and/id1548604447?i=1000648054080

I thought some of you guys might appreciate this right now (despite the headline, most of it isn't directly about Israel). Very much Christian author argues that the Old Testament is much more full of mercy, forgiveness and grace than it is given credit for, and made kind of a lightbulb go on for me about it that my views of Judaism have sometimes been colored by self-serving Christian spin on Judaism (wherein Christianity sets it self up as the merciful new religion and Jesus as the merciful new version of God in contrast to the more vengeful and primitive old one)

Purim Sameach!!

Thanks for recommending that episode. I think my friend who is an Anglican minister (and whose kids are Jewish) might have sent me that as well.

And yes, Chag Sameach!

Honestly never under-estimate what Christians don't understand about Judaism. Christians think it's mostly Christianity minus believing that Jesus was the Messiah. They don't know that there's no Jewish hell or that it's not evangelical (and in fact discourages conversion) and lots of other things. I can speak for Christians, I feel comfortable with that. :D

So apparently what I'm describing was once (like 1800 years ago) called Marcionism, but at least officially has been mostly rejected by various Christian sects. I swear I have heard that sort of view expressed before though. Not really thinking of the average Christian so much though.

I mean I was always drawn to the stories of mercy in the Torah - the angel sparing Isaac from sacrifice, Abraham pleading for Sodom and Gommorah, the covenant after the flood. It's not like I grew up thinking God in the Torah was not merciful, but I feel like I have heard it described that way in popular culture, literary analysis, and probably theological arguments as well.