Mamaleh Knows Best got a fab review in the New York Times. (It’s online now, will be in print in the August 28th issue of the Book Review.) Jennifer Bleyer, founding editor of Heeb, wrote such a sparky, snappy assessment. LET ME BUY YOU ALL THE COCKTAILS, JENNIFER BLEYER.
In non-me-related news, check out this superb public service project for Teens, PopUp for Change.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/211559/teaching-kids-about-tikkun-olam
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I was raised orthodox Jewish in NYC by first-gen Americans – – – Ramaz school if that means anything
the notion that Judaism is indistinguishable from Bernie Sanders lefto lib love fest is obscenity and anathema
AmJews are lefto mostly by accident of immigration from socialist Europe
Jew are communitarian, partly by ghetto-ization, imposed, and partly b/c the brilliance of OUR Founders decreed:
(1) Minyan – ten male (oops) persons for quorum and
(2) no travel on Sabbath (I once asked if horseback was permitted – it has no internal combustion engine…)
– thus Jews must live walkable from the community center
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Many Jews are rightists- African and Arabian Jews; and Russian Jews
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you are free to be a good person (lefto definition) but leave yahwe and torah out of it
Save the Planet did not keep diaspora intact 2000 years
Torah did and stern patriarchism did, and excommunication of apostates
‘Save the world’ is also known as minding other people’s business
MYOB
As for ‘chosen’ – as the phrase goes next time Gd, choose somebody else, if you don’t mind’
They don’t teach punctuation at Ramaz. It’s a lefto lib construct.