tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post2603047349741137909..comments2024-03-29T06:06:58.796+03:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Conversion - descendants of German NazisDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-63226837989775541472008-08-06T19:49:00.000+03:002008-08-06T19:49:00.000+03:00Jersey girl's life is full of interesting plots.I ...Jersey girl's life is full of interesting plots.<BR/><BR/>I make it a habit to throw out any "free" CDs or things that come in the mail about "Judaism" as I have a hard enough time ripping up all those appeals from Rosh Yeshivas for suffering kids and dead bread winners or starving Yerushalmis that will get money through the hands of hungry prominent rabbis and rebbes. I know of some reliable tzedakas instead. <BR/><BR/>I don't read the weekly print outs in shull (I try to throw some into the trash when I can) because I have a hard enough time keeping up with the ba'al koreh as he zooms through leining, and my kids moras and rebbes are so functionally illitirate that it's a cinch keeping track of their weekly nonsense parsha quizes and sheets.<BR/><BR/>I do read the three weekly frum papers, YATED, MODIAH, Jewish Press and the weekly Mishpacha (an expensive addiction that I hope to give up one day, but it makes my wife happy on Shabbos) even though they are total moronic bores with repetative news, mostly about Israel and Israeli politics which is very strange and hypocritical for them since they are mostly anti-Zionist (except for the Jewish Press which does not ban photos of ladies at functions.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-28503297041213674382008-08-06T19:27:00.000+03:002008-08-06T19:27:00.000+03:00They don't want to be Jewish. They want to redefin...They don't want to be Jewish. They want to redefine Judaism as a sect of Christianity. <BR/><BR/>And they are winning. <BR/><BR/>My children were watching a DVD in Hebrew from a reputable Judaica store. The credits, in English show it is produced by an Evangelical Christian Church. It is full of not-so-subtle Christian messages.<BR/><BR/>I pick up a DVD in shul about Gog u'Magog and watch it at home. When I do an internet search on the producer of the video, I see that they are incorporated as a Protestant Church. <BR/><BR/>My children bring home a parsha sheet and there is a quote attributed to the Ramban. I remember learning the same passuk in school, but quite differently. I look in my Ramban sefer and find that the quote attributed to the Ramban on that passuk is not there. <BR/><BR/>Where did this come from? I search on the internet and find that it is a quote by a Christian theologian. Certainly NOT the Ramban!!<BR/><BR/>How did such a thing come home not only in my children's parsha sheet, but it was also sent home with my brother's children (NJ) and my cousins' children (Boro Park) and a friend's children in Baltimore that week too!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-61403507607119882192008-08-06T18:15:00.000+03:002008-08-06T18:15:00.000+03:00Also skirting the nature-vs-nurture issue is the n...Also skirting the nature-vs-nurture issue is the number of Israeli women who go to a very successful IVF-Donor clinic in Germany...<BR/><BR/>-michamichahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13610506439687098313noreply@blogger.com