tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post7369509966696838029..comments2024-01-30T02:37:28.387-06:00Comments on Notes from a Jewish Thoreau: Kapporot: Use money, let the chickens live!Yonassan Gershomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-35227320979470465492013-09-12T09:33:58.790-05:002013-09-12T09:33:58.790-05:00They tend to only read material from their own gro...<i>They tend to only read material from their own group.</i><br /><br />There you have it. An entire subculture for which the only reliable sources of information begin with "Der Rebbe zogt... ."Jeff Eygeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967707883565162538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-10749151820990291372013-09-09T16:37:07.941-05:002013-09-09T16:37:07.941-05:00re: "self-hating," It is not only Haredi...re: "self-hating," It is not only Haredim who use it, I have also been called that by secular Zionists for criticizing various policies about Israel. It seems to be the catch-all term for anything somebody does not agree with. Which renders it pretty meaningless. (And yes, I do know the original meaning, which referred to Jewish intellectuals who expressed antisemitic opinions, either to "pass" for gentiles or distance themselves from their own Jewishness and suck up to the non-Jewishh powers-that-be. Which certainly does NOT describe me!)<br /><br />The problem is, many of these hecklers really do not know the diversity of opinions that exist within in Jewish sources. They tend to only read material from their own group. I myself like to get a cross section of opinions.<br /><br />RE: no neg comments, the Alliance org set the comments to moderated on all their videos. They were having problems with people posting blatantly antisemitic comments. The intent of the site is not to attack Jews per se, but to focus n replacing live chickens with money.<br /><br />I have tried in my videos and blog posts to put these things into historical context, but <br /> Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-42868695175945109152013-09-08T04:37:25.650-05:002013-09-08T04:37:25.650-05:00For taking this stance, I have been called a "...<i>For taking this stance, I have been called a "self-hating Jew"</i><br /><br />This has become the default term used in the Haredi world to dismiss anyone who disagrees with their warped version of Judaism - but as is the case with most of the terms they appropriate, they're clueless as to its original meaning.<br /><br />At least there are no negative comments beneath the video. Yonah Bookstein released a similar one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOcuX6MtLWw), and the trolls lined up to tell him he was ignorant of Torah. They know only what their rebbaim tell them.<br /><br />That world is unsalvageable.Jeff Eygeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967707883565162538noreply@blogger.com