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I happen to know Imam Faisel, his wife and his staff very well. In my opinion, they are definitely on the far left of moderate. I have no objection to the article in this week's Jewish Week on moderate Islam--but WHY did you have to put the Imam's picture front and center? He was NOT the only person focused on in the article! Perhaps it is my paranoia (common, you will agree, amongst us, even liberal, Jews)--but I am afraid that the more this man becomes recognizable physically, some crazy idiot will do more than throw words at him!
Well-said and right on the money
It's never a slow day, as most people mean it. I'm the Ernie Banks of Jewish journalism (in terms of happiness, if only in talent). Think of The Jewish Week as the Wrigley of Jewish papers, the oldest and most beautiful. "the friendly confines," of newspapers and web sites. The days can't go slow enough. I'm shelling nuts and having a cold one and I enjoy those who agree, those who disagree, I love everyone who cares. I come to The Jewish Week site, and like the songs says, I don't care if I never get back. I'd love some extra innings. I hope we keep talking about all these issues, all day long and all night, too.
What an outrage.
Mr. Liebler is right. This issue needs to be addressed and dealt with immediately. Berman needs to step down and this board needs an overhaul and house cleaning. Nothing is more important than insuring that these Holocaust survivors receive from the Claims Conference every penny they so desperately need. It is the responsibility of the Jewish community at large to follow through and protect the assets of the survivors. Have they not suffered enough?
Useful Idiots,
The difference between Jewish religious law and Sharia Law is that Jewish law does not demand the destruction of western civilization while Sharia Law demands that its followers wage war on the infidel Jew and Christian (Kufaar) until they submit to Islamic rule.
Tarek Fatah
A Canadian Muslim (not an Islamist)
Good luck to Salita, hope he does well. One qualm. The crowd at Newcastle was far from "mostly Islamic." And any anti-Semtitic shouts did not come from the Muslim portion of the crowd. Please check your facts before spreading division.
even NYBR president joe 'shecky' potasnik does weddings sat night right after sunset. how he is able to drive there from brooklyn/nyc is beyond me unless he drives on Shabbat or stays in a hotel on LI.
And yet...
I’m prepared to accept that Churchill was overall favourably disposed towards both Jews and the Zionist enterprise.
And yet, Churchill was the leader of Great Britain (the leader of the Free World until the US showed up) during our hour of greatest need. He was also more aware than most of the scale and pace of the Holocaust. There were limits to Churchill’s authority, and yet it’s always seemed to me that there was a great deal more he could have done to ease our plight, even just by speaking out if nothing else.
Allowed more refugees into Britain? Put pressure on Britain’s allies to accept more refugees? Create a Jewish Army? Treat the Jewish people as an ally in the fight against Hitler? Press for greater (limited or unlimited) Jewish immigration into Palestine, the Jewish National Home? All these options were open to him.
With all due respect to the great leader, with friends like that, do we actually need enemies?
Turning the question on its head, if Churchill had been a raving anti-Semite, could our fate during the Holocaust have been much worse?
The trouble with arguing either for and against circumcision is that it tends to obscure a number of troubling problems:
*One is the forced circumcision of men during ethnic and religious conflicts. Notorious examples occurred in Ambon, Indonesia in 2001, to Mandean men in Fallujia, Iraq in 2003, and to Luo tribesmen in Kenya in 2008. Such events should receive universal condemnation.
* A second problem is with dangerous traditional practices. For instance, in South Africa, traditional rites surrounding circumcision lead to the deaths of dozens of youths and the mutilation of even more young men every year. Such practices should not be defended.
* A third problem is with metzitzah b'peh. This practice can infect infants with herpes and has been associated with several deaths. The very least that can be done is for the Jewish press to publicize the dangers of metzitzah b'peh so that parents have the information they need to protect their sons.
* A fourth problem, fortunately rare, is disputes between parents over the circumcision of their child. If parents cannot or will not agree about circumcision then the best person to decide this question is the owner of the foreskin. And he should not have to make this decision until he has grown to manhood.
* A fifth problem is with zealots, who take it upon themselves to circumcise their own children even though they have no medical training. The full force of the law should come down on unqualified people doing this to others, whatever their motivation might be.
* A final problem is that of incompetent operators, whether medical or ritual. For everyone's sake they should be weeded out, pronto.
Whatever might be said about circumcision, it is still an operation, and there is always a risk of hemorrhage or infection. These risks must be minimized, and any abuses must be condemned.
Good luck, Dimitriy. I have great respect for you and hope that you succeed in all of your endeavors and all your dreams come true.
When I call the Mayor of NYC: Jhidast Bloomberg - am I being unfair and
harsh? Over 3,000 souls snuffed out - & mayor Bloomberg wants us to
embrace Islam? Mitzvah what here. . .
"I know full well that Obama is a Christian by matrilineal descent..."
I think technically he's a Christian by conversion; he joined a Protestant church on profession of faith and was baptized, the rite of entry. Even Christian churches that baptize or "christen" infants, thereby inducting them into Christianity, don't count the unbaptized as Christians -- they have to convert, as the president did.
Nothing new. When I was growing up in Indianapolis in the '70's this was standard practice for both the Reform & Reconstructionist rabbis in town.
Excellent review!
@ Bill Pearlman - Did you really just call Obama somebody's "boy?" I don't think your choice of terminology is unrelated to the article. Whether or not Obama's a Muslim, a non-citizen... whatever, the sentiment is that he's "not like us." It is all thinly veiled racism.
Gary,
Thank you so much for this. I'm of the generation that gets most of its news from the internet and time and time again, I am disgusted by the vitriol spewed in the comment sections. Sometimes I think that commenters forget that they are talking to actual people and feel free to take out their frustrations and hatred on an anonymous figure.
We can disagree, but can't we be nice about it?
I have gone swimming with religious women where one was asked to cover the bathing suit with a "models-coat" or robe.
From personal experience, one must be wary that when swimming with any dress or long t-shirt that can rise above the head -- especially if one jumps in the pool, the dress flies straight up and then covers one's head. The swimmer is trapped underneath the water with the material/fabric floating above the head thus not allowing one to come up for air.
I would not suggest any bathing suit that has a skirt long enough and not firmly stitched to the waist-- without a lifeguard on duty ready to perform rescue!
The difference is the relative affluence of the "younger" crowd. There have been "Terrace Circle" groups in the Terrace Circle/West Gate area for 40 years; the difference is that only "relatively" recently do the groups have the resources to formalize as independent institutions.
I was driving to a film shoot in the Village this weekend and suddenly thoughts of FeenJon came back. I thought I would google and see if it was still there. It is not and Manny has passed away. I was there the night they recorded Erev Shel Shoshanim, with Ali. Makes me feel lonely, too.
I so love the Baxter the Pig concept--as a Jewish pig lover, finding something that is respectful to Judaism while treating of pigs as something other than gross or disgusting is really awesome.
Next step--a sitcome featuring a Jewish pig. Swinefeld, anyone?
Well, I recall Faisal Rauf and his father, then the Imam, spent a shabbat with us at Camp Ramah in the Poconos in 1968, a year after the Six Day War. They would not have been invited if they were extremists. Nothing I have seen in his recent statements (before the trip, I heard him on WNYC radio) have changed my mind. While I am not thrilled about some of the financial aid he claims to be receiving from Mahathir's Perdana Foundation in Malaysia, nothing he has said or done convinces me he is extreme. The attitude of the ADL and many Jews on this issue sickens me. There are now more U.S. Muslims than Jews, so we should reach out to someone we know we can deal with rather than slap him in the face.
Obama was exposed to numerous teachings from the Christian, Islamic, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. His own sister considers herself to be a Buddhist.
So Obama's worldview is highly multicultural. If some Jews have a problem with that...that's their problem. It's the real world--time to grow up.
With a teenaged dieter at home, (not an anorectic but a seriously overweight kid who really needs to lose weight) I'm so glad somebody is doing this at last. Yay!!!!
Quote:
"Salita looks for “Redemption” (that’s how the fight is being billed) against 4-year-old Franklin Gonzalez of the Dominican Republic."
Gary G reply:
He's fighting a 4 year-old? Now that's funny. Thanx for the chuckle.
" But in the scheme of things it seems that women are more generous when it comes to being open to a man. While it also seems to me that the older a man gets, the more ungenerous he is. And also the more unrealistic."
Boy, if the rabbis of the Talmud said something like that, they would get attacked for sexism -- oh, they did "Tov LeMetav Tando Me'LeMetav Armalu" which roughly translates, "[a woman prefers] to dwell as two than to live as a single" and therefore they expect that women are more likely to accept men despite the blemishes than men are vis-a-vis women. Imagine that, and they don't even get a blog!