Comments on: Anti-kiruv comic strip causes Haiti Earthquake

By: Dr Breslaver

Dr Breslaver — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:43:35 +0000

A wide eyed grin for your effort. Can you really
arrive at any meaning by bubbling and boiling
the pot of tragedy through the filter of
privileged proletariat rearing?

By: Nadine

Nadine — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:04:02 +0000

You shouldn’t talk about non-orthodox like that, you’re going to cause another earth quake

By: Shimon

Shimon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:58:14 +0000

Why are you calling me a “moron”? Because I responded to what you said (which your response implies that maybe what you actually typed isn’t quite what you meant – this has happened to me too plenty of times on the internet)? Please take a moment to re-read your second comment and think about it from the perspective of somebody who is currently not observant – would it inspire them to become frum, or would it dissuade them? (I admit my response had more sarcasm than necessary, and for that I apologize.)

Aside from a tiny minority of “Classical Reform” Jews, who are explicitly against Jewish tradition, most Jews who are not observant don’t really have much exposure to or understanding of Judaism itself. They should be taught about what it means to be a Jew with kindness and understanding, not treated in a mean-spirited as anti-Jewish assimilationists.

My point was twofold: that many of our greatest sages worked and/or got advanced, secular learning. You are right, the first point doesn’t really apply to what you said, but the second very much does. I never said that getting a pediatrics degree should supplant learning Torah, but I do maintain that there is nothing non-Jewish about getting advanced secular degrees.

By: FrumGer

FrumGer — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:17:52 +0000

Shimon wtf are you talking about?? what i am saying is the jew that cares more about his status in the goyisher country club he attends then his status with Hashem. the goyisher jew that thinks that eating latkes is what make them jewish. I SAID NOTHING ABOUT WORKING OR NOT WORKING MORON… I don’t sit in yeshiva all day- I work all day, i used that as an example of how being a doctor is suddenly more of a jewish thing to do than going to israel, where eating a bagel with lox, is more jewish than learning gemarah. frei jews have made the synagogue a beit lashon hora, or at least nothing more than an extended counry club, not a beit midrash or a beit tefillah… they have taken Hashem out of judaism and have tried to replace Him with stupid stereotypes…

By: Sergeant J

Sergeant J — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:36:54 +0000

Hmm, I recall reading that a sailor is required to make love to his wife once every six months. I guess the rest of the time he is in Yeshiva?

By: DK

DK — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:42:37 +0000

Secular and liberal Jewry should sit back and play dead as the ultra-Orthodox send their youth to second-class BTdom.

By: Shimon

Shimon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:20:14 +0000

Yeah, the sages just studied Torah all day… which is why Hillel made his living as a woodcutter, Maimonides & Nachmanides were physicians, the Vilna Goan studied the works of Euclid (the Greek mathematician), Rashi grew grapes, and the Torah lays out rules for farmers and employers to follow. Clearly, Jewish Tradition and the Torah are against people having jobs to support themselves like farming or being a doctor.

And, I mean, its not like Frum people ever have to worry about needing lawyers to defend themselves in secular court either, right?

By: FrumGer

FrumGer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:11:33 +0000

G-d verbot that we actually like being jewish, love it even and want other jews to expirience the joys of living a meaningful life. instead of despirately trying to erase judasim of the face of the earth like frie jews seem to be so anxious to do… getting a law degree, or doctorate in pediatrics is not judaism.

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:27:11 +0000

Thanks for the shoutout, Brooke (and John)