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Jewcy Book Club

Welcome Authors
Brian Frazer
&
Mike Edison
who are posting all week.
Coming up:
  • 10/13:
    Rabbi Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe
  • 10/20:
    Jonathan Garfinkel
  • 10/21:
    Rabbi Robert Levine
  • 10/27:
    Danit Brown
  • 10/28:
    Joshua Henkin
  • 11/04:
    Craig Glazer
  • 11/11:
    Max Gross
  • 11/17:
    Seth Greenland

All Comments by Jeffrey Weaver

Good luck, translations are more important than many believe. You are doing a much needed and important job.
Michelle Obama repeated the proud line a few times before it went viral. You can believe what you want, she is abrasive and far too many people are not wanting an abrasive first lady. She is a very negative person and one that has a problem with other people's success and wealth (but not her own).

I should be more clear, you are right. You attack Israel, Israelis and Zionists. You are disrespectful to many of the same people that Koffler is, you refuse to answer questions posed to you, and you try to change the subject when you are called out on it. Just look to any debate you had with Naftali (where is he anyway?) And excuse me, The question you fail to answer is from your contention that Israel is the block to peace and your call for a one state solution in a previous topic. You have still failed to answer the question.

 

I hope this answer suits you, because I do have regard for the truth. 

There are quite a few Jews that are not only politically conservative, but we are friendly with Christians. I agree with David on this one.
PBS may not be Inherently anti-Israel but it is so close that the differences are meaningless. To be fair, a lot of PBS's news gathering functions are shared with the BBC so it could just be tainted fruit.
06/13/08 8:45 am
Please stop personal attacks and answer the question. What do you believe will happen if Israel were tomorrow to lay down all of its arms and agreed to your dream state?

Obama has now flipped Again!

"Democratic White House candidate Barack Obama on Thursday defended his remarks that Jerusalem should not be divided under any Israeli-Palestinian peace pact, saying a divided city would be "very difficult to execute."

A day after sparking outrage among Palestinians when he told a Jewish group that Jerusalem must remain the "undivided" capital of Israel, Obama told CNN that the issue is still up to the two sides.

"Obviously it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues. And Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations."

However, he said, "My belief is that as a practical matter it would be very difficult to execute.

"And I think that it is smart for us to work through a system in which everybody has access to the extraordinary religious sites in old Jerusalem."

But, he added, "Israel has a legitimate claim on that city.""

That's Leadership, Folks.... 

 

where I differ from Yaakov on this issue. You may continue to call Hagee a bigot, but that opens you up to be called an anti-Christian bigot yourself, since most Christians do not approve nor do they condone homosexuality. The same could be said for most religious Jews and their feelings towards homosexuality.  As for the anti-Catholic stuff, he has apologized profusely and he helped to fund a retirement convent for aged Nuns.

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“I personally supported a convent for over ten years providing complimentary housing for elderly, retired nuns,” Hagee said.  “Many of you remember the day of honor that we had for those nuns in this church for their lifetime of service to God. These are not the acts of someone who is anti-Catholic.”

Hagee said he had dedicated most of his adult life to “eradicating anti-Semitism from Christianity,” stating that his statements critical of Catholicism were directed to that end.

“As part of this effort, I have criticized the past anti-Semitism of the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church,” he said."

 

There are many here that call out Christians and ignore Jewish remarks on the same subjects. There are countless Jews that believe that the Catholic church was anti-semitic and some that believe in "Hitler's Pope", I find it distasteful to call out a Christian but not the Jew for the same offense. You here are quick to slander Hagee and Christians, but some of our ow believe the same things... 

 

you might be right about all this - I still think only hippies were tie-dye...
blindly pick up Daniel's line. He simply said that Obama could not get his plans passed through Congress, so he would use the powers of the Presidency Those powers would not be limited to prosecutorial discretion,  again that was his fall back to cover what he was really referring to, an imperial Presidency, much like GWB's. Now I do not like GWB but I do not believe for one minute any of you will mind Obama using those powers to implement his policies. So, yes I do believe Daniel was being more sweeping than he now claims. And I believe you are being willfully obtuse to not see that.