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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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 Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: The "New Jews" are in today's news |
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When Moses came down from Mount Sinai about 3,300 years ago, he couldn't have seen these Jews coming.
A blogger writes about how one of Judaism's holiest days ended, for her, in a strip club, while elsewhere a guy strolls into a tattoo parlor requesting a Star of David. Two women exchange wedding vows in a Jewish ceremony, and hipsters toss back bottles of HE'BREW, The Chosen Beer. A full-time software developer prepares to lead a group in Jewish prayer, as a PhD candidate in Jewish thought pens a letter criticizing Israel's policies.
"When I'm on stage screaming, hitting my face with a microphone and pouring beer on my head, at least I'm singing about the Torah," said the 26-year-old founder of PunkTorah, an outreach effort to inspire Jewish spirituality. |
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/28/new.and.emergent.jews/index.html
Hmmm. I grew up in a community that is almost majority Jewish. I noticed that when we were young, my Jewish friends were as crazy as the rest of us goyish folk, but then they seemed to all settle down after university and turn into their parents. I am therefore skeptical of the idea that this New Jew thing will be earth-shattering (since in my experience New Jews turn into Old Jews).
Anyway, just letting you know about this movement which may or may not be an actual movement. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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I also grew up in a predominately Jewish neighborhood.
This "New Jew" wave could be due to the fact that the term/label "Jewish" is so broad and vague. What are the qualifications to be Jewish? A Jewish mom? Jewish ancestry? Actual faith? None of these seem to be clear even among them. They don't know what they want. No one has the balls to tell them they are or are not technically Jewish. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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Your headline rhymes.
Cool. |
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Reggie
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
I also grew up in a predominately Jewish neighborhood.
This "New Jew" wave could be due to the fact that the term/label "Jewish" is so broad and vague. What are the qualifications to be Jewish? A Jewish mom? Jewish ancestry? Actual faith? None of these seem to be clear even among them. They don't know what they want. No one has the balls to tell them they are or are not technically Jewish. |
 Good points.
I didn't grow up in a Jewish neighborhood, but it seems like my whole adult life I keep running into these self-appointed High Priests of the Sandedrin who want to decide who is and who isn't Jewish. One said that I'm a Jew whether I like it or not. Another said I'm an "Arab pig." They obsess on that stuff, as if any of it really matters. |
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