Comments on: Aliyah: Conversations with Liel Liebovitz

By: mother in israel

mother in israel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:15:50 +0000

I think he’s related to the famous “Moshe Rabeynu.”

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:43:13 +0000

Thanks Sage.

“Samuel Nosherman” doesn’t appear to exist other than in some very odd, sometimes funny, postings on the strangest websites.

By: SAMUEL NOSHERMAN

SAMUEL NOSHERMAN — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:54:21 +0000

ATTENTION FRUMMIES AND SABRAS: I AM CONTEMPLATING TAKING A VACATION IN ISRAEL THIS SUMMER AND I WOULD APPRECIATE ADVICE ON HOW TO COMPORT MYSELF WHILE TRAVELING AROUND JERUSALEM. I HAVE BEEN RAISED TO RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. I WOULD BE INCLINED TO OFFER PROTECTION TO A DEFENSELESS WOMAN IF I OBSERVED THAT SHE WAS IN SOME KIND OF DISTRESS. HOWEVER, I DO NOT WANT TO GO TO ANOTHER SOCIETY AND GET INVOLVED IN GRATUITOUS MAYHEM. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR OPINION AS TO WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST REACTION IN THE FOLLOWING SCENARIO:

I am taking a nice scenic bus ride in Jerusalem. A woman gets on the bus with her bag of groceries, pays her fare and sits on the only remaining available seat. A bunch of bearded men dressed in black start yelling at her and gesticulating wildly. The woman persists in remaining in her seat and the men start to pummel her and drag her from her seat. Her bag of groceries gets torn apart and the various items fall on the floor and are purposefully trampled upon by the men who proceed to slap and punch her. SHOULD I:

A. Sit in my seat, mind my own business and make believe that nothing is going on?

B. Join in and help the men punish the offending woman?

C. Yell out to the men that they are making too much noise and should go about their business more quietly?

D. Take photographs to show to the people back home.

E. Pick out the most offensive of the black clad bearded men, punch him in his bearded mouth and drag him by his beard to the door and throw him off of the bus. After throwing the bearded bastard off of the bus, the next step would be helping the woman gather her groceries and escorting her back to her seat, stopping along the way to kick any other persisting bearded assailants in their baytsim .

MY NATURAL PREDILECTION WOULD BE TO GO WITH ANSWER “E” BUT I WOULD APPRECIATE THE INPUT OF SEASONED ISRAELI FRUMMIES AND SABRAS SO I CAN MENTALLY PREPARE MYSELF FOR THE POSSIBILITY THAT I MIGHT HAVE TO GO AGAINST MY NATURAL INCLINATIONS. WHAT WOULD AN ISRAELI FRUMMY OR SABRA DO UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES?

In appreciation for your kind advice:
Samuel Nosherman
SamuelNosherman@yahoo.com

By: moe sedwik

moe sedwik — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:47:09 +0000

hey fellas…..listen……my sister is half jewish half combodian, adopted by a converso lady whose grandfather was an incan indian but practices mormonism…..can her nieghbors make aliyah???

By: shlomo jones

shlomo jones — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:44:30 +0000

of course you do……because its your trick…….i learned it from you middle froline…….its a great way ti win an argument…have an extra guy on the sidelines…

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:58 +0000

Uh, Shlomo, we know you are Adam.

By: shlomo jones

shlomo jones — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:26:30 +0000

hi guys. i saw your blog and wanted to join in. ive been considering aliyah for some time. im worried about my ability to fins a job in my sector. im a professional cake decorator from the albany conectionary arts university cuma de laude. i guess we’ll see……
so i enjoyed the history lesson above.
this adam guy is great. if we had 10,000 of him in israel a lot of problems would be solved. regardless, my name is jones and my great great grandfather on my mothers side was a great rav in belarus. but then froylein, remember that at the time of the alsace the karaites werent ashkenazi semites, but turkic semites. understand that the jewish population of germany moved east to present day poland/ukraine to escape this travesty….so when the karaites merged with the ashkenazi 200 years later they descendants became ashkenazi. draw a parallel to a ashkenazi jew who moved to spain and was named ashkenazi and now 500 years later he is sephardic.
and adam. i like that idea. make israel work for you. i guess its better your coming to israel, building the popualtion, spending money around town, then sitting in america dating a girl from the reform temple.
talk soon fellows. shlomo
but i know what he’s saying about the karaites. i went to day school with a kid and i vaguely remember him telling about some sort of european hidden jew converso type thing. it didnt mater though ,as his mother was jewish and the family went to the conservative temple.
alright dudes!

By: froylein

froylein — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:34:32 +0000

I’m 29 and have got waist-length hair.

Apart from that, somebody who knows how to spell knows how to spell even if he’s in a hurry. There’s no part in your Broca’s and Wernicke’s area that makes you misspell when you’re not putting effort into your writing unless your orthography is bad to begin with.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:07:47 +0000

Nah, who am I kidding, if I sent you a photo, you’d put it on the internet.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:07:00 +0000

$500?

Make it a $1000 plus another $1000 to charity of my choice and I’ll consider having ck send you a photo of me well past 28 with lots and lots of hair.