Comments on: The last laughs on Jew http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/ The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 07:40:45 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David J Roland http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99870 David J Roland Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:54:58 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99870 Great article Rabbi David. As a Jewish convert to Biblical Christianity, I get it on both ends.

1 – I'm stereotyped by part of the Jewish community who think that I've somehow become a Gentile.
2 – I'm offended by some Christians who share their stereotypical anti-semitic opinions.
3 – I'm pigeonholed by the media and all who listen to them as a fundamentalist who (as everyone knows) has an IQ that is below zero.

Yes, it's frustrating and potentially dangerous too. I lost 4 uncles and aunts to the camps in WWII and another aunt (now passed on) had a number from Auschwitz indelibly tattooed on her arm. I understand the terrible truth that lies within the soul of all men and women, myself included… "There is no one who does good, not even one" Ps 53:3 and Rom 3:12. Both the Old and New Testaments state it, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Rom 3:23.

All except for the Messiah, G-d praise His Name!

Dave

]]> By: Dov Blair Epstein http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99782 Dov Blair Epstein Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:07:44 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99782 For all those educated Jews, smarter than the less educated….loshen horah is the operating dynamic here. make fun, it's still "loshen horah, or Motzei shame rah, gossip…" IOW, we are proscribed from saying it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99780 Anonymous Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:53:00 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99780 I can tell you this.i was brought up in the UK after the ww 2 but I could never understand or comprehend the massacre of the Jews.It was too mind boggling.When I first saw Fiddler and Tevye said "A pogram, here?"Everything fell into place.I suddenly realised that the holocaust was just the cilmax of persecutions that had gone on for centuries.

]]> By: Paul Besterman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99690 Paul Besterman Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:19:05 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99690 I have mixed feelings, though agreeing mostly with what the Rebbe says, the same could be said for all religions and races; That we must not fall into the trap of stereotypical prejudice, but, I think we must also retain a sense of humour to deal with the tensions daily life present, without unduly denigrating ourselves and others. I suppose one mans' Stereotype is anothers' Archetype.

]]> By: Fran Dash http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99662 Fran Dash Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:45:02 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99662 I agree with Rabbi Eliezrie that Judaism ought not be stereotyped, especially as it's difficult enough to maintain any form of Judaism in our multicultural and mixed religion world. We need to be careful if we want to preserve Judaism, especially for those who don't practice it. The relligious are safe and Judaism will remain their way of life but the secular and liberal are in much greater danger of losing whatever remains of their Judaism. We must try very hard to reflect Judaism accurately and respectfully.

]]> By: Fran Dash http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99664 Fran Dash Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:45:02 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99664 I agree with Rabbi Eliezrie that Judaism ought not be stereotyped, especially as it's difficult enough to maintain any form of Judaism in our multicultural and mixed religion world. We need to be careful if we want to preserve Judaism, especially for those who don't practice it. The relligious are safe and Judaism will remain their way of life but the secular and liberal are in much greater danger of losing whatever remains of their Judaism. We must try very hard to reflect Judaism accurately and respectfully.

]]> By: Mildred Bilt http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99428 Mildred Bilt Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:54:45 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99428 Unfortunately we live in a world of mass communications. When the Shas chief Rabbi (in 2010) claims that goyem were created to serve Jews and when the world is corrected he would sit as an effendi and have goyem serve hin, it reverberates around the world. Likewise the direction of the rabbis to the flock that if there is an assertion of pedophilia in the community, the police should not be contacted and the rabbi will handle it. Many other distasteful and self incriminating tidbits that are in the public arena. The enemy is in the mirror. the rest is white noise.

]]> By: Maurice Mizrahi http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99382 Maurice Mizrahi Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:46:23 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99382 Criticism will be accepted when it is felt, deep down, that the critic has the best interests of Jews and Judaism at heart. If no such feeling exists, or the opposite feeling exists, it's a different matter.

]]> By: Doug Kraft http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99340 Doug Kraft Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:23:29 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99340 Very well put Rahel.

]]> By: Rahel Jaskow http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99338 Rahel Jaskow Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:15:55 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99338 Tevye probably never had a Jewish education — he was just too poor. What little education he did have was probably provided by a local heder that had an ill-paid rebbe who was not equipped to teach properly, and stopped well before he was bar mitzva because he was needed to help earn money for his family.

]]> By: Doug Kraft http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99328 Doug Kraft Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:54:25 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99328 A thought provoking article. Thank you.

]]> By: Doug Kraft http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99330 Doug Kraft Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:54:25 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99330 A thought provoking article. Thank you.

]]> By: Gil Reich http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99260 Gil Reich Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:52:04 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99260 Nice post. I completely agree. Make fun of Jewish influence in Hollywood and you have a major scandal. Compare religious Jews to Islamic terrorists and it's a legitimate point, or at least all in good fun. The only Jews who are off limits are those that — how do I put this — have significant influence over what most Americans see and hear.

]]> By: Gil Reich http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99262 Gil Reich Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:52:04 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99262 Nice post. I completely agree. Make fun of Jewish influence in Hollywood and you have a major scandal. Compare religious Jews to Islamic terrorists and it's a legitimate point, or at least all in good fun. The only Jews who are off limits are those that — how do I put this — have significant influence over what most Americans see and hear.

]]> By: Ben Needleman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-last-laughs-on-jew/#comment-99244 Ben Needleman Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:22:28 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105742#comment-99244 You put down Sholem Aleichem, one of the most brilliant jewish writers of all time #howsthatforuncultured?

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