tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post1980904916705084504..comments2023-10-24T00:40:27.831-07:00Comments on Friar Yid: Why not just come out and say it?Friar Yid (not Shlita)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10311439778319103094noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-46754687398269774692009-09-11T16:06:25.098-07:002009-09-11T16:06:25.098-07:00Sholom? Are you still out there? I miss you and yo...Sholom? Are you still out there? I miss you and your blog. Come on back.<br /><br />I'm also a Potok fan (particularly his Asher Lev works), and in fact credit him for helping me discover my Jewish identity-- but I assume there are plenty of frumies who don't like him. On the other hand, I could live the rest of my life without reading his description of a baseball game or eyeball anatomy and die happy.Friar Yid (not Shlita)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10311439778319103094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-55799395102469913652009-09-11T11:36:07.603-07:002009-09-11T11:36:07.603-07:00I like Potok. I think he does a pretty good job of...I like Potok. I think he does a pretty good job of representing a volatile period in American Jewish history.<br /><br />Then again, it's been over five years since I've cracked open one of his books.S. Kellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13652709970843322849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-89392261962787195062009-08-20T18:17:19.316-07:002009-08-20T18:17:19.316-07:00Bray,
Wallpaper Paste? I'm too much of a moro...Bray,<br /><br /><i>Wallpaper Paste? I'm too much of a moron to khop that reference.</i><br /><br />Why, because of how thick you lay it on. :)<br /><br /><i>Why in the world would you waste the time and effort to dedicating an entire blog to fisking juvenile X-tianity and crapolla writing?</i><br /><br />I've gotten a little bored with World Net Daily, and Lazer, Fishman and Buchanan don't post everyday. Plus, I feel I owe it to smart-ass Jews everywhere to speak up for how poorly we seem to be represented in fiction. I'm hoping eventually to make it a team blog-- maybe someone else can fisk the Jews in Left Behind. Or maybe an Ortho can fisk Chaim Potok. I'm open to suggestions!Friar Yidhttp://friaryid.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-38128752014515676782009-08-20T18:13:08.898-07:002009-08-20T18:13:08.898-07:00Dag- Ah, I get it now. Like when people call Obama...Dag- Ah, I get it now. Like when people call Obama Hitler, or Stalin, or some sort of twisted Hitler-Stalin hybrid complete with combination re-education gulag gas chambers and, presumably, at least two mustaches. Or when she called John Edwards a faggot. Funny like that?<br /><br />It'd be funnier if she wasn't using "Jew" as a slur, sort of the same way Jackie Mason uses "Puerto Rican" as a punchline. Just my opinion.Friar Yidhttp://friaryid.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-84901084732022436162009-08-20T16:01:35.970-07:002009-08-20T16:01:35.970-07:00"What is so egregious is that she thinks &quo..."What is so egregious is that she thinks "secular or converted Jew"is an legitimate insult to hurl at someone in the public forum-- all the more so when, in this case, it isn't even true."<br /><br />It is precisely BECAUSE it's not true, that such a comment can be made.<br /><br />It's like when you make fun of the 6"5 guy for being short.<br /><br />Being short is not a legitimate attack on a person, but when you call a tall person short, it becomes funny.Daganevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08022014644525719560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-42990466135376742722009-08-20T12:35:25.788-07:002009-08-20T12:35:25.788-07:00saw your other blog. And i thought that I was sic...saw your other blog. And i thought that I was sick and OCD about blogging.<br /><br />Why in the world would you waste the time and effort to dedicating an entire blog to fisking juvenile X-tianity and crapolla writing?The Bray of Fundiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552912825252813495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-66540239929565534262009-08-20T10:27:55.657-07:002009-08-20T10:27:55.657-07:00Lazer and Pat are a well deserved targets. I am n...Lazer and Pat are a well deserved targets. I am not. <br /><br />But you're welcome on my blog any old time.<br /><br />Wallpaper Paste? I'm too much of a moron to khop that reference.The Bray of Fundiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552912825252813495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-25532815075399542462009-08-20T07:59:02.598-07:002009-08-20T07:59:02.598-07:00Bray- I'll admit it's not quite as fun as ...Bray- I'll admit it's not quite as fun as fisking Lazer's pseudo-Kabbalah or Pat Buchanan's neo-nativism (or <a href="http://youdontknowjews.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">this horrible book</a>), and of course, it can't hold a candle to spreading qedusha qonsciousness around like wallpaper paste, but then again, I'm not picky, so I guess I'll take what I can get.Friar Yidhttp://friaryid.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-48130271969309701582009-08-20T07:44:18.511-07:002009-08-20T07:44:18.511-07:00Anon- I don't think your view contradicts my o...Anon- I don't think your view contradicts my own. Yes, clearly Coulter is making a dig at secular-ish Jews who, in her mind at least, attack Christianity. (And, typically, is too mealy-mouthed to even make that criticism directly and be judged on the merits or lack thereof of such an argument.)<br /><br />What is so egregious is that she thinks "secular or converted Jew"is an legitimate insult to hurl at someone in the public forum-- all the more so when, in this case, it isn't even true. Or the other component of this backhanded slap-- that somehow being Jewish, or born Jewish, is a delegitimizing factor that makes it possible to dismiss someone's opinions about political or religious topics in the public sphere. What do we care what Lynn thinks? He's just a Jew.<br /><br />Coulter has brought Jew-baiting back to the American discourse. She must be so proud. Now she finally has something she can hang up on her wall next to her diploma and her flag.Friar Yidhttp://friaryid.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-91059652626504668452009-08-20T07:37:45.426-07:002009-08-20T07:37:45.426-07:00mazel Tov on outin an anti-semite.
Do you feel be...mazel Tov on outin an anti-semite.<br /><br />Do you feel better now?The Bray of Fundiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552912825252813495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-51155154836581577782009-08-19T17:39:21.986-07:002009-08-19T17:39:21.986-07:00I think the analysis of what she is saying is wron...I think the analysis of what she is saying is wrong here.<br /><br />In Ann Coulter's mind there are two types of Jews out there.<br /><br />There are the Hollywood Jews, the ones who throw Bark-Mitvahs are big in entertainment etc, and then there are the Hasidic Jews that get into fights with Black people and are Rabinical students.<br /><br />Coulter is making an attack on the hollywood Jews in this article. The same sort of people that Dennis Prager likes to condemn, the same sort of people that Chabad likes to kiruv. The same Jews that you accuse other Jews of not recognizing. She is making reference to the "godless religious" in the media.<br /><br />But I hope this gets out more, and the context is made clear to people, because its always nice when the traditional and the nontraditional have something they can agree upoon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-85417275773774568752009-08-19T15:24:29.144-07:002009-08-19T15:24:29.144-07:00Lurker- I'm happy to make a correction if you ...Lurker- I'm happy to make a correction if you can give me a link. I've yet to hear or see any evidence of this, despite the fact that people have been <a href="http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2009/08/coulter-accuses-rev-barry-lynn-of-being.html" rel="nofollow">blogging</a> about it for a few days. If you know something I don't, feel free to share.Friar_Yidhttp://friaryid.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-20124394083502085802009-08-19T13:56:24.774-07:002009-08-19T13:56:24.774-07:00Excellent post.
I read Coulter's screed yeste...Excellent post.<br /><br />I read Coulter's screed yesterday evening, and was livid for several hours afterwards. I am much calmer now. <br /><br />What Coulter and people of her ilk need to understand is that if we lessen the boundary between Church and State, people like me will come busting out of the woodwork. And we won't be happy. <br /><br />Heck, I'll gladly lynch any number of members of the heretic denominations that threaten my religious freedom - Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Adventists, whatever. The only version of Christianity I would want to see empowered is Dutch Calvinism. Not particular about which obnoxiously stubborn and opinionated version of it, either - I've got relatives all over that creed, and most of us haven't been Chruch-going in generations. But still.... shtrenge Dutch Calvinists are infinitely superior to all those Anglo-protestantisms. Punkt.The back of the hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564245223453467132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-23800523440505535732009-08-19T13:50:11.002-07:002009-08-19T13:50:11.002-07:00That's odd, according to my 5 seconds of resea...<i>That's odd, according to my 5 seconds of research it appears Rev. Lynn is a lifetime member of the United Church of Christ, a liberal Protestant denomination... Yet... Ann instead prefers to call him a fake minister... A point she makes by accusing him of being a Jew.</i><br /><br />It looks like you should have done a bit more than 5 seconds of research.<br /><br />I'm not writing this to defend Coulter (I think she's crass and revolting). But you have got your basic facts wrong: Barry W. Lynn <i>is</i> a Jew. He was born Jewish, and converted to Christianity.Lurkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02712938121915827845noreply@blogger.com