What the Bleep: this week’s news
A lot of crazy #&#%$* happens in the Jewish world each week. Don’t miss these stories on Leo and Bar’s hot union, Barack Obama’s Talmudic musings, the lox crisis, a crazy rabbi in Great Neck, and Joe Biden’s foot-in-the-mouth disease – or not.
1. “Bar Refaeli—Dump Leonardo Di’Caprio! Settle Down With A Nice Jewish Boy.” from Heeb Mag. So an organization that doesn’t like Jews marrying non-Jews is pushing the hottest Israeli (perhaps hottest Jew) ever to dump Leo. Really? Don’t they have better things to do? And I like that this hot union is giving Israel good press coverage in the U.S., so stop your kvetching.
2. Barack “the Talmudist” Obama. Heeb Mag. The Prez goes Hillel on health care. Intentional? I sense the hand of Rahm.
3. Bagel Lovers Tell Rabbis: Don’t Pick on Our Lox. NY Post. A hella stupid group of Ultra-Orthodox rabbis just declared lox un-kosher. Yeah, you heard that right. Lox, the quintessential Jewish food has some bad bugs in it that make it “meat.” WTF!
4. The Curse that Rocked Great Neck. Jewlicious. A rabbi on a rampage crashes a little kids party to curse all present for their infidelity and sin. Should have been a Saturday Night Live skit. Insane.
5. Cup of Joe (Or… I love the smell of Biden in the morning) and Feeling Biden’s pain: ADL and N.Y. Post. Capital J. V.P. Biden criticizes Israel’s decision to build new Jewish homes in the ancient city of Jerusalem and the ADL throws him their suppor. Did Israel screw itself up by twisting a lovey visit into a critical one? Or is this just another example of what some have called Biden’s Foot-in-the-Mouth disease.
Any news we missed? Let us know in the comments.
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I don’t think Biden was alone with his criticism. Hillary came out with an even stronger condemnation, as did many American Jews.
Are we still defending the Israeli chair throwers, or is it time for a more nuanced view of the Israeli government’s actions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvxaT6QIw0
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3863585,00.html
@ ML’s comment:
Well, that’s about as bizzare as the comment is a non-sequitur.
These haredi men are certainly being asses, to put it very mildly.
But, you know what, between chair-throwers and bomb-throwers, I choose the chair-throwers.
Sometimes it really is simple.
So I’m with the bomb-throwers? Nice try.
As for the non-sequitur…who do you think the new construction in Jerusalem is for? That’s right, the same people throwing the chairs!
I’m with the women simply wanting to pray at the wall. And admittedly, you are with the chair throwers.
That just doesn’t deserve a substantive answer…
But I’ll give one anyway.
Since you put it in the context of the housing expansion and Biden’s visit, this is not between nice Jews and chair-throwing Jews. It’s between Jews and Arabs.
Maybe those men should be prosecuted for assault. But I don’t see why their behavior means that Israel must give a concession to its enemies.
So abiding by a US request is a concession to an enemy?
We should capitulate to the same community that is throwing chairs at a holy site by building them thousands of more homes?
Who’s the enemy here, Mike?
I thought you might willfully misunderstand me there…
No, giving up territory to the _Arabs_ is a concession to the enemy. (In my view, a concession with nothing given in exchange but bombs and rockets is not a great deal. Something that Israel’s friend, the U.S., should probably not pressure Israel into.)
As far as capitulating to the haredim, the way Israel (unlike its Arab enemies) resolves such issues is by elections (in the most recent of which the right-nationalist-religious bloc won), and parliamentary politics. _Not_ pressure by foreigners (even friends).