http://www.killingthebuddha.com/dogma/exodus.htmExodus
If Passover is a festival of freedom, why is the Seder such a bloody affair? A holiday reading from Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible. by Francine Prose
It is genocide without apology. And at the end of this dire prophecy come the most important sentence of all, the real beginning of what the rest of Exodus will so ferociously and zealously continue: the demarcation of difference, the establishment of a separation between Israel and the other peoples and tribes, the forging of an identity, the birth of a nation and all the exclusiveness that it will require: “But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.”
I am sure happy to find a sister-to-sister jam that I can participate in. In the chance that Anemone is right in bringing up the a-s word I thought I would bring it up. You know j I wonder about Jews who were raised among Jews. You know--- lived in Jewish neighborhoods, went to Jewish schools, and probably spent their whole lives surrounded by a cocoon of fellow Jews.
Not a hell of a lot of poor Jews in the United States, but thanks to crazy Mikes gambling compulsion I was one of the chosen few. When every body else in our neighborhood prospered and moved to the fashionable ghetto on Baltimore's northwest side my family remained behind. All the syngagoues were converted to other uses. SOme became churches one became a pool hall. The one my grandfather went to became a museum.
So we Tilles's were left behind. Surrounded by Micks, Wops, Pollock’s and African-Americans- I could always count on a fight. I wore my Jew chip on my shoulder always ready to challenge. But I have two brothers who never seemed to have a problem with it.
I think I would certify as an interested eyewitness to your accounts. I was eight years old when Israel was born. I remember the adults in my family were very happy but as I grew up none of them seemed very interested in going there. Israel just another foreign country not their homeland. The old country for them was not a so-called holy land. It was Russia, Lithuania and Poland.
Judi sometimes you seem to have a “poor little Israel” complex. We are so fortunate here in the USA to be surrounded by our “client states” while a sea of enemies on the other hand surrounds you. Oh sister we are all surrounded by a sea of enemies these days. You know the world is such a small place these days. This war has just started, we don’t know who will wake up today in a pile of smoke and ash. The 911 attacks took years of planning they say. Who knows what is coming down on any of us tomorrow?
I think Jews may be the most racist people on this planet. It all comes down to your mother’s mitochondrial DNA in the end. My uncle Chaim, going to get a gig as a cantor in Shul in Bethesda Maryland. His singing voice was beautiful but the Rabbi grilled him for hours about the matrilineal line in his family. And he in turn grilled his mother about her mother, and her mother’s mother and so on.
Deb, I still don’t know why you got your panty hose tied in a knot. Big fucking deal, a post got moved. You get pretty personal here. I think PR may be right. But J don't need anybody to defend her. She is an an artist and a poet, and she don't look back. to paraphrase a Bob Dylan song.A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
Philip Roth
I hope this storm will blow over pretty soon. You are going after judi the way Pelerine used to go after me on litchicks.
Lets move on.