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more about #israel HereComesMyBaby: All these pictures do is guilt-trip me for always forgetting to go to these protests. Also, I am a little scared of the po po. Hopefully, I'll get ove... more » Valkyrie607: OMG it's my old roommate from Philly! I always wondered what she would do with her life. more » Awestruck: When I saw this I thought "What is that wacky Amanda Palmer up to now?" more » Tramputee: Ugh. I grew up ultra-orthodox, and this gives me the very-familiar creeps. To the Orthodox: adapt or die, more and more of your children are defecting... more » Zulkey: fundamentalists of any religious order are bad news imo. more » daradoodle: I think at this juncture it is appropriate to propose the Daradoodle Two State Solution. In many ways this closely resembles the currently proposed tw... more » Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): I never would have thought that God cared so much about his followers' genitals, but religious people keep telling me otherwise. more » HereComesMyBaby: Apparently, Orthodox people in Jerusalem yell "Nazi" at a lot of people (for example, people driving on Shabbat). My friend does the funniest impressi... more » vitajex: I'm glad to know America doesn't have a monopoly on outrageous hyperbole! more » freckles: Isn't it always the most "religious" people committing the most un-religious acts? more » Lilah: Because, you see, Nazis were all about reading the Torah and wearing tallit. It was "worshiping at the Western Wall" this, and "keeping the Sabbath" t... more » GGobsessed: This is crazy, because most of the people at the wall are Orthodox and Hasidic. So, like, these Women of the Wall know what they're doing is inflammat... more » Valkyrie607: What... no cries of "Feminazi"? Orthodox Jews, are you really going to let Rush Limbaugh out-misogyny you? more » lalie (apologetic mess): Ugh, as someone who was harassed and beat up for 2 years in grade school for being a 'Nazi' (I was partially of German descent in a mostly Italian-her... more » run_sunshine: One quote particularly bothers me: "We must distance politics and disagreement from this sacred place," [Western Wall Rabbi] Rabinowitz said. Too lat... more » sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): How do you say "Godwin's Law" in Hebrew? more » andBegorrah: Worst last-night-of-Hanukkah present ever. more » JinxyMcDeath: I'm confused why you would post this story with so little explanation or context. This is a deeply complex issue and there is wrongdoing on both side... more » cantankasaurus rex: wow, nothing like trivializing the group that killed 6 million of your fellow jews by comparing them to women who want to be able to read the Torah/le... more » Sputnik_Sweetheart: It makes me so angry that Jews are throwing around "Nazi!" as an insult. more » -
#walleyed
Ultra-Orthodox Call Women At The Wall "Nazis" and Accuse Them Of Being Non-Jewish
Another monthly prayer session, another confrontation between Women Of The Wall and the ultra-Orthodox at the Western Wall. Today: Shouts that the women were "not-Jews" and "Nazis," according to Israel's Army Radio. [Haaretz] -
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#oyvey
No Such Thing As A Free Trip
"A new study found that rates of marriage outside the faith were sharply curbed among young Jews who have taken "birthright" trips to Israel, a development that could hearten Jewish leaders worried about assimilation." [WSJ]
