I would assume Juderman means "Jewish man," or perhaps more accurately "JEW! (M)"
Oy gevalt. I'm glad you're OK. Good move with the camera. I was sorry to read about the trouble your wife had here in Israel, and of course sorry to hear any reason you may choose to spend less time here. :-(
"Funds for Arabs in Gaza," eh. Hamas or Islamic Jihad?
That's what I assumed... Yes, it was frightening. I'm not sure there's anything to be done about it either... ust keep going as if nothing had happened. Yes, the issues in Israel were not very nice and quite serious. Also I have no solution. It will also make it more difficult for us to go in the future.
You know, the more I learn about the jewish religion, the more i like it. But then I hear the horror stories you go through and not only am terrified for you and your wife and son, but feel terribly spoiled here in Vancouver. Nothing like that happens here that I know of, and I"m pretty sure Leslie would tell me if she knew of anything like that happening. But then the idea of race, sex, or religion having anything to do with determining friendship, jobs, or even where a person can walk down the street doesn't even really occur to me. WHy should I care what colour or religion someone else is? It's not really any of my business, and they can't really change it anyways, ne?
Re: your iconamawahibikiAugust 20 2007, 15:39:03 UTC
I think her point is that Christians, who keep just about none of the commandments, get fairly worked up about the ones the choose (and misunderstand). Given this, her icon isn't accurate in many places I would say- also there's a difference between "an abomination" and "prohibitted"... anyway, something like working on Shabbes is worse than homosexuality if anything. Shaatnez can be a problem with suits actually- many suits in shops mix linen and wool. It's a problem when borrowing other people's suits, like I was forced to do in Japan.
... yes, I've never experienced anything like this in Canada, the US, or Asia. It's quite frightening to be somewhere where one is a walking target because of religion. In Israel it isn't this bad- well, it's bad in a different way. They won't openly attack one on the street, but they might sneak up and stab or bomb one... I don't know... they bring these "refugees" from militant groups in Hamas in Gaza and from Muslim militias in Somalia, and they "continue the war" in Denmark. I'm convinced that's what this is. This guy was some Hamas activist from Gaza or something, imported... or perhaps more frightening, a second generation immigrant whose father is one of the above. It is very frughtening- and the only thing to do is to develop a very short memory, pretnd it never happened, and go on with life- and leave as soon as possible.
Come to Hungary, then you get Skinheads instead of Arabs. Or just random people yelling at you.
Though sometimes it gets funny. A few days ago, a guy (I guess not exactly sober) started shouting at me "KRISHNA, KRISHNA!!!" and his drinking buddy yelled at him "You idiot, this is not a Hare Krishna!" I wanted to shout back "I am not a Hare Krishna, I am a Dirty Kike!"* but I couldn't stop laughing.
(I was wearing long flowing clothing, but 100% boring European in style. The kind that tags you as Yet Another Frum Girl, nothing special.)
_______ * I usually shout back random stuff, but maybe I should refrain from doing so, as just now on Sziget a guy physically attacked me in response. Mind you, our bachurim were watching and doing nothing -_- I did not get hurt but it was close. People must've gotten rowdier in the year that I was away; this was my 5th (6th?) Sziget and no one wanted to hurt me before, OK there were always people badmouthing us, but only talk.
Shmuel is going to end up monolingual in Japanese if I'm not careful... Anyway, the plan is for me to speak to him in English, for her to speak to him in Japanese, and for us to teach him Hebrew. But so far I'm not being disciplined enough and it's becoming only Japanese ;o.o
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Oy gevalt. I'm glad you're OK. Good move with the camera. I was sorry to read about the trouble your wife had here in Israel, and of course sorry to hear any reason you may choose to spend less time here. :-(
"Funds for Arabs in Gaza," eh. Hamas or Islamic Jihad?
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Yes, it was frightening. I'm not sure there's anything to be done about it either... ust keep going as if nothing had happened.
Yes, the issues in Israel were not very nice and quite serious. Also I have no solution. It will also make it more difficult for us to go in the future.
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But then the idea of race, sex, or religion having anything to do with determining friendship, jobs, or even where a person can walk down the street doesn't even really occur to me. WHy should I care what colour or religion someone else is? It's not really any of my business, and they can't really change it anyways, ne?
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Shaatnez can be a problem with suits actually- many suits in shops mix linen and wool. It's a problem when borrowing other people's suits, like I was forced to do in Japan.
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I don't know... they bring these "refugees" from militant groups in Hamas in Gaza and from Muslim militias in Somalia, and they "continue the war" in Denmark. I'm convinced that's what this is. This guy was some Hamas activist from Gaza or something, imported... or perhaps more frightening, a second generation immigrant whose father is one of the above.
It is very frughtening- and the only thing to do is to develop a very short memory, pretnd it never happened, and go on with life- and leave as soon as possible.
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Though sometimes it gets funny. A few days ago, a guy (I guess not exactly sober) started shouting at me "KRISHNA, KRISHNA!!!" and his drinking buddy yelled at him "You idiot, this is not a Hare Krishna!" I wanted to shout back "I am not a Hare Krishna, I am a Dirty Kike!"* but I couldn't stop laughing.
(I was wearing long flowing clothing, but 100% boring European in style. The kind that tags you as Yet Another Frum Girl, nothing special.)
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* I usually shout back random stuff, but maybe I should refrain from doing so, as just now on Sziget a guy physically attacked me in response. Mind you, our bachurim were watching and doing nothing -_- I did not get hurt but it was close. People must've gotten rowdier in the year that I was away; this was my 5th (6th?) Sziget and no one wanted to hurt me before, OK there were always people badmouthing us, but only talk.
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Take care- antisemites are animals.
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Anyway, the plan is for me to speak to him in English, for her to speak to him in Japanese, and for us to teach him Hebrew. But so far I'm not being disciplined enough and it's becoming only Japanese ;o.o
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