Comments on: More Jewlicious Travels

By: Elon

Elon — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:20:56 +0000

Somebody get TBI some water, the Haterade is taking over his/her system!
Laya, not that something so petty like that comment would bother you, but rest assured you are one beautiful jewish woman!

I’m up for an internship in germany, i’m interested to meet and participate in the Jewish community there…but I can tell you the Italian jews are mighty proud of being jewish despite being in the center of Roman catholicism.

By: Temple Beth Israel - Evanston

Temple Beth Israel - Evanston — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:29:22 +0000

Your face disgusts me. LOOK AT THAT NOSE. Khara!

By: laya

laya — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:51:47 +0000

ariela, With El Al we are protecting our own. But I sure don’t think that the extra KLM security was there out of compassion for the Jew, or the desire to protect us. Like I said, they don’t seem to care so much if terrorism or Nazis kill Jews, just please, not on their planes.

griesi, i am admittedly ignorant of the modern European Jewish experience, but I’m glad to hear it’s not like that everywhere.

By: Philip van Perlstein

Philip van Perlstein — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:17:07 +0000

Who is this CK that is looking for me ? You can see I have not disappeared……

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:17:48 +0000

This comment is going to sound so silly, but I like your use of the word “awesomeness”in your article. It’s a word I use frequently, and I don’t see it used too often. Rembradnt created beautiful work. I am glad you have a little place in Jerusalem all to yourself.

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:56:56 +0000

CK, Muffti just wants to know, why do the Dutch have a museum dedicated to a brand of toothpaste?

By: griesi

griesi — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:47:20 +0000

As a Swiss jew I must tell you that it is nonsense what the guy you met told you. Maybe he is afraid to tell it to the people or he lives in a rural area where people have almost no clue what a jew is, but it is for sure not taboo. Of corse, as in most parts of the world (to a lesser extend also in the US) there is also in Switzerland anti-Semitism. In contrary to the US for example it also not too common that people wear their kippa at work, same thing for me for example but everybody in the company knows that I’m jewish (how can you not when you leave at 3pm on winter friday afternoons, never it at functions, etc) and if there are social events such as x-mas dinner I always wear the kippa and even get kosher food…

By: ck

ck — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:56:35 +0000

Amsterdam. Oy. Nice city, loads of fun. Can't say more for fear of incriminating myself. Dutch Jews have this uncanny tendancy to dissappear. Where is Arnold Blits? Where is Philip Van Perlstein? Get in touch with me you bums! Whatever. Coincidentally, today the Dutch choo choo people apologized for the first time for their role in the deportation of 100,000 Jews to Nazi death camps during WWII. Read the story here, on the BBC.

By: JOBBER

JOBBER — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:49:01 +0000

Pleased to make your aquaintance, ariela.

By: ariela

ariela — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:38:21 +0000

…thank you, ephraim, I was just going to say that RIJK menas nothing more than ‘realm’ or kingdom, to be more accurate. And since the Netherlands ARE in fact a kingdom (mot to everyone’s liking…), there is nothing strange or fishy or nazi-ish abouth that term. It is the museum of the kingdom of the Netherlands, that’s all.

With the risk of sounding like a total moron, Laya, I have to say that I find this piece a bit…off, ehm..I know I might sound like a stupid little dutch princess trying to defend my country, but what you said about those KLM flights, it just isnt true. El Al has the same hard core security checks when you fly to Te Aviv. It has nothing to do with the Dutch, it has everything to do with the fact you are flying to/from Israel.

And about the rain and the cold…oh well..It is definately fall here now. It always starts early and seems to never stop. Sigh.

Have you been anywhere else beside the rijksmuseum en het anne frankhuis? Maybe smoked a nice reefer and took a stroll through our lovely red light district, de wallen?