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January 25, 2009 Chabad, Satire, kosher
I don’t usually ask this of my readers, but I would like to call on you to show your support for one of the biggest tzaddikim of our generation. Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin has done more for our community that any business person, with the exception of our beloved Bernie Madoff. And yet he is being persecuted. Persecuted for the mere fact that he is a frumme yid, and one or two other minor indiscretions.
Many have claimed that what was done to Reb Sholom was like a pogrom. It was much worse. It was a mini-Auschwitz. And if playing the Jew-victim card helps, well, then it was like a Mengele twin experiment.
Every Orthodox Jew has a right to flee the States and run to Israel. As it is said, “When the going gets tough, the frum fly El-Al mehadrin.”
The fast to wipe away the evil decree of due process begins at sunrise. I will, of course, be offering my own supplications at the Ohel to Mashiach himself.
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He didn’t employ illegal aliens. He employed undocumented immigrants like the Presidents aunt. They’re all going to get amnesty in the next year or two anyway, he was just a little avant garde.
One of the commenters asked why similar concern wasn’t shown for Jonathan Pollard. Someone replied:
Pollard should have been smarter than to do a favor for Israelis..
Translation: He got what he deserved.
There’s always a double standard.
The Mehadrin flights, if approved, would not be added to the airline’s flight schedule, but would modify existing flights to meet the haredi travelers’ needs. Secular travelers would be concentrated on regular flights.
Great. So secular passengers will have to rearrange their schedules so the penguins won’t have to have to sit next to women. “Well, it’s their own damn fault for not being frum!”
This is how it begins. Give in on this, and they’ll want more next time. It’s the same with the evangelicals in this country, and with the Muslim fanatics in Europe.
Theocracy is not far off.
I’m in a pickle here. While I savagely hate this idea, I believe in the free market. This is capitalism at it’s best and smartest. Let’s just hope that they charge a premium for the Chareidi flights, so that there can be a price break on the secular ones — and not the other way around.
This is what is instigating anti-Semitism in this country. We need to be choosing our causes very wisely from now on. The pendulum of political correctness is swinging back.
DK – ROFL XD
HS, the problem is that it won’t work according to free market principles. They’ll just roll over for the Hareidim, in the way that government increasingly rolls over for the Christian fundies here. The main (if not the only) reason this is even being considered is because the black hats nearly caused a riot last year when they were nearly shown an in-flight movie accidentally.
I don’t know whether or not Israel has discrimination laws similar to the laws we have here, but if this were also being motivated by fear of a discrimination lawsuit, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Everyone is scared to death of them. This is why we have MO kids getting beaten up in Hareidi neighborhoods, while the authorities cluck disapprovingly and do next to nothing.
Not everybody is as charming as Mo..
Oh – and if they do try to charge a premium for mehadrin flights – you think the Hareidim won’t squawk about that?
While it occurs to me, I’ll make one more smart-ass remark. The real free market solution would be for them to start their own damn airline – which, of course, they won’t do. Why should they? Doesn’t the rest of the world owe them a living? Isn’t it their constant study that keeps HaShem’s protective hands around the world 24/7, preventing it from spinning off its axis? If you believe it spins on its axis, that is. Which is kefira.
(“But we couldn’t be responsible for the crash, Inspector. Our pilots were learning Toyrah at the time, so HaShem had to be watching over them!”)
The situation is so serious that we need to take direct action as well as fasting to express our anger at the persecution of Rabbi Rubashkin.
The British radio broadcaster Alan Partridge angered farmers by suggesting that the intensive farming techniques which led to mad cow disease were due to being inbred and ‘having wives who are also their brothers’. Partridge was later hired to front a promotional video for boating vacations when he came upon a protest by angry farmers
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MrOBqn0asug
Next time Shmarya visits NYC try to persuade him to take a boat ride under Brooklyn Bridge
I fly a lot, and in all fairness, Charedim aren’t any more annoying on a plane than other parents inattentive to their confused and scared infants, obnoxiously noisy female American college students that simply cannot travel without bringing half a dozen filthy cushions, Midwesterners reading Maxim while fondling their crotch, people claiming not to understand the flight attendants when asked to put their seat back up as the person behind them is trying to eat (Singapore Airlines has great Asian meals), clinically single 30-something females that are dolled and perfumed up to the max, and (my personal pet peeve) people that buy the cheapest tickets available and then argue with ground staff about getting an upgrade – often enough delaying boarding – and, if they fail, simply claim early on during the flight they weren’t feeling so well in the back of the plane and would probably feel better somewhere in the front (with notoriously high odds usually next to me).
What is a “clinically single female”?
Women that are single and will always be and get neurotic about it instead of realizing that it’s something about them that scares men off.
Oh! Well, in any case, clinically single females don’t start riots on planes because their neshomos are in danger from a treif film.
(Yes, I know it only happened once – that we know about, anyway. My point is that it’s probably that one incident that has the board of directors of El Al wearing adult diapers.)
They are creep though – and grab all the free booze they can get (which doesn’t exactly make them any more attractive…)
Follow the link on my name for some Charedi “fun”.
Yes, I heard about that. And it’s the RCA criticizing him.
(BTW, did you read the comments? I didn’t know Jewlicious attracted such a frum following.)
It’s time to acknowledge that there are two religions now – Hareidism and everything else. I’d say that Modern Orthodoxy needs to decide where it stands, except that real Modern Orthodoxy is dead, and it isn’t coming back. All that’s left to do now is to say kaddish and move on.
David, if you’re paying attention – I once, on JewSchool, told you we needed to urge secular Jews to stop subsidizing their way of life in order to force them to change. Now, I feel we need to stop subsidizing them because theirs is a way of life that needs to come to an end. They, like the evangelicals and the Islamic fundamentalists, are holding back our progress as a civilization. It’s time for them to walk off the stage of history.
It puts me in mind of the time Yitz and Blu Greenberg participated in the original dialogues with the Dalai Lama. There were factions within Orthodoxy that wanted to place him in cherem merely for speaking to an “idolater”. And this was in 1990, when things weren’t as bad as they are now.
Orthodoxy has become an anachronistic parody of itself.
Surely read the comments; contributed a large part myself. Jewlicious seems to draw a handful of BTs and “classic” Orthodox ones; I’m not sure how many Chasidim read it. I know quite a few Chasidim that consider it too progressive / obscene for their liking.
It’s time for them to walk off the stage of history.
Modern Orthodoxy is so bogged down by the conflict of West versus frum that they can barely walk anywhere except to Israel.
Surely read the comments; contributed a large part myself. Jewlicious
I noticed afterward. I love the response you got from that guy who asked you for a list of your sources: “I’m not impressed by a well-received university lecture.” That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it?
What is that medallion you’re using as an icon?
It’s time for them to walk off the stage of history.
Modern Orthodoxy is so bogged down by the conflict of West versus frum that they can barely walk anywhere except to Israel.
Right, but I meant the Hareidim. Modern Orthodoxy is a dead issue. Yes, I know you keep telling me there’s a Left Wing MO, but it’s like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster – no one ever actually seems to come across them, and I don’t share your interest in Jewish paleozoology.
It’d be funny, though, wouldn’t it? Two guys hunting in the woods, or in a cornfield in Iowa in the dead of night – “Officer, I swear – there was a Progressive Orthodox minyan, right here! All twelve of ‘em, davening and shuckling. We both saw it, didn’t we, Homer? Look, we still have some of the cake they gave us!”
Yep, that response is rather telling.
That medallion’s quite a mystery. I got it from someone who got it from someone who got it from someone who is a hobby treasure hunter (people that run around the countryside with metal detectors). I asked a friend who lectures on more recent Jewish history in Israel; he couldn’t determine its exact background, but said it might have been a badge worn by Jewish soldiers in the British military. I used to have a pic of the “Ruling Ring” up, but it was small to be readable (got it from the same jeweller that made the ring for the Lord of the Rings-films; rewarded myself with that for breakig up with my ex back then).
What does the Hebrew say?
it says something about your nephew
face, you have some serious issues. This has nothing to do with theology. You need more help than you can get by taking potshots at people you meet online. There’s no way for me to know whether you’re experiencing an internal conflict over your choice of lifestyle, or if it runs deeper. In any case, you really need to seek help – and I don’t mean from a Hareidi rav.
face, go away.
Jeff, I am experiencing an internal conflict over my choice of lifestyle, please help me.
Face, nothing a few smacks with steamed celery couldn’t cure…
Steamed celery?
Mais oui.
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