A Year's Worth of Jewish T&A

narcissistic much? i appreciate the "jewish women are smart and sexy" message, but yikes. the "team chai" and hanukkiah months are especially disturbing. clones! why?!

In the words of the immortal Mel Brooks:

"When you've got it, flaunt it!"

You rule my world! Love your shofar! Love your hot dog! Great shots. 

 I have to say, seeing this makes me sad.  The only relief I feel is that it is obviously one 'actress' promoting the prospects for her career -- I think it would have been morally crushing to see a calendar of, say, 12 Jewish women 'baring all' in the name of their sexuality -- that would be much more of an insult to Jewishness and Judaism.  I don't see any courage in this 'spread' (of photos), in fact my standard of courage, I feel, is much higher.  There is a young Jewish woman in mepeace.org who openly admits to being a 'sex worker', seemingly without self-promoting -- she has much more courage in my book.

As a Quaker and a Christian, my knowledge of the Jewish world is limited, though I have worked with many Jews and had Jewish friends all my life.  I will say this ... something like this would definitely be frowned upon in Quakerism.  There is little shyness about sexuality or nudity in Quakerism that I know of, but we do tend to embrace modest and plain dress.  And there are certainly testimonies within Quakerism which would call such a stark display into question.

Jamie Sneider has chutzpah, I will give her that much.  I do regret that she felt discriminated against by being typecast in 'ethnic' roles in acting.  She is a beautiful young woman, but I too have concerns about narcissism appearing in ways that do not become the individual in question.  And her work here, though artfully done in terms of photography, actually promotes sexism more than sexuality.

John Wilmerding

Brattleboro, Vermont USA

I just dropped by to get a closer look at those breasts...:-)