palestine 4ever .

YOURE REALLY AN ASSHOLE!

Oh well. I have hijacked plenty of threads myself.

The kid should put the gun down and marry a nice girl. So there.

Where is Esther when we need an editor?

Chutzpah, I fully agree with you. You’re ready to author a full wiki on your frustrations and observed inconsistencies. It is growing a bit stale, but the random ‘This Rosh Yeshiva secretly slept with four of his students while nursing a nasty coke habit’ fact manages to draw my attention when used sparingly. And SEX? Why didn’t you tell us this before? I’m always ready to discuss that on the table. I heard a lecture about sacred sexuality and sexual repression in the Shulchan Orech, and its discrepancies with the commandments to sexually fulfill your partner, esp. the wife. Or perhaps only the wife. Screw the husband. (Not literally, though I bet that’s implied as well). Shed some light on this?

Fro, sorry to hear about the near accident. Ich dachte, Deutsch-Treiber sind meist sehr sicher?

And this 10% rule…wow. Maybe the top 20% get stickers on their canteens?

The top 10% of everyone don’t have to serve in the Army.

They should have to do something though that benefits the country. Either learning Torah or studying the sciences.

Conservative/Reform/Jew4Jesus/Christian religious students should not be able to get exempted from the army – even if they are Jews, because they’re not studying what the State of Israel (and most Israelis) hold to be Judaism.

Sonny, that was very sweet of you. It made my day after an almost full-frontal collision on my motorbike as a car driver cut a turn and ended up in the wrong lane.

Chutzpah, I take it the tights have to be opaque? Are they at least allowed to be somewhat fashionable?

Did she look like “the Daughter of the King” as the Bas Yisroel rethetoric says…no, she looked like a kid who didn’t read the weather report before going outside.

Does anyone think I’m going to ever get over these anger issues, because my Shrink says I will as soon as my youngest turns 18, which is 8 years and quite frankly, I’m starting to bore myself with all my same complaints about the Orthodox.

Can we talk about sex instead, that never gets boring.

How would one figure out who made the 10% of the top Schmucks list? What if their were different factions of shmucks? What if the top Schmucks really should not be allowed near a gun or heavy machinery either?

Why are the Hareidi’s studies more important to Israel than the studies of a Conservative or Reform Rabbinical Student?

Why are the Haredi studies more important than anyone who wants to study math or science or literature?

Oh, because the Haredis said so. I get it now.

Regardless of where one stands on stands on the ethical conclusions that can be drawn from such a claim, (and I’m hoping most here would draw negative ones), shouldn’t more attention be given to this matter in the Jewish blogosphere?

Just another controversial question. (It’s not as if too many controversial statements aren’t being made already or anything). Ok. Maybe they are.

Big Aish is responsible for more divisiveness amongst the Jewish people and especially between siblings and between parents and their own children than any other organization since the 3rd Reich.

This one can’t eat at that one’s, this one can’t go to their nephew’s bar mitzvah, that one can’t speak to their gay sibling, this one can can only speak to their non-frum parents when they are doling out cash for tuition or food, that one can’t pray with the minyan at their Aunt’s shiva because women are in the room….and so on and so on and shoobie doobie doobie.

But really, nice try, thank you.

Oh, and I think that’s Cantor Shlomo Singer of Passaic Torah Institute pictured in one of the shots…responsible for quite a few divorces and lots of fights amongst bal tsuvah married couples in town because his second wife earns MAJOR real estate money to support his learning and he things every shmuck that walks into his bais midrash is entitled to a smart, strong woman like her. Don’t know where he dumped the first one…

look we can all start pulling these kinds of stories of how young people are being trained from “both sides.” (i put both sides in quotations b/c of course there aren’t just two sides to what’s going on)…but my question is why? why are you choosing to present it this way? i know you know this is not this simple, as you often write to other people, so why?