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  6. @ Edgar G.:
    Ah, hence the “spitting distance” observation regarding Israeli camper-trailers. Did you have a measuring tape on you on either occasion? Clearly, here the resuts would have been more concrete. In more ways than one.

  7. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    Yes, my cabbie was white. Of course this was a long time ago as I said, when passenger ships were still going from the American Continent to Europe. That day I went from New York to Liverpool. On my way out to Canada originally I was on a Greek liner from Liverpool to Quebec, where we disembarked. there were several people in the taxi with me and we had to get to the train station as I was going to Toronto by train. The driver spoke only French, didn’t know his way and a woman passenger had to direct him how to get there. I stayed in Toronto 6 weeks, bitter cold, then went out to Victoria B.C. to join a young married couple I’d made friends with on the ship. I went by car and arrived in Vancouver on Dec. 26th.

    The trip across Canada in mid winter, over 3000 miles, all roads covered with snow, by car is another story, involving Mounties all dressed up in their riding breeches and sharp pointed hats, and beeee-yuu-ti–fulll red tunics… and riding boots…but no horsies.

    Just one little tid-bit. The car had a heater-the first car heater I’d ever seen-, and I was in shirtsleeves. Whenever we stopped at a gas station and I’d go into the little store to buy gum or etc, after 2 steps the back of my shirt, slightly damp with perspiration maybe, would freeze solid like a pane of glass. I recall spitting on the ground as an experiment and it froze solid either before it hit or immediately when.

  8. @ Michael S:
    Very few Black cabbies. Nearly all Muslims from Bangladesh and Pakistan.
    ‘The few black cab drivers I have met were well-educated Africans from the vicinity of Ivory Coast. Back in the 60s, they were probably mostly White. In the 80s and 90s, they were mostly Sikhs from Punjab, India still some. Many of the Bangladeshis are Muslims from the part of Punjab that is in Pakistan.

    That’s from my experience as a rider. I drove a cab for a while part time and worked for a garage owned by Haitian Muslims, and went to a driving school owned and run by Black African Muslims. Both places had a Muslim prayer room with rugs, etc.

    As a student and applicant at the Taxi and Limousine Commission and a couple of driving schools, I found a certain amount of diversity, a couple of women, an Israeli, a Tibetan. But mostly as above.

    It is true, however, ironically, that despite Hollywood always being accused of stereotyping, in movies, violent street criminals are rarely Black or Latino, usually White or anything else. In reality, in New York, in my lifetime, they have mostly been African-American (not Blacks from anywhere else, those who families came from the South in the twentieth century) Dominican or Puerto Rican (not Latinos from anywhere else, no Mexicans, for example, it is different in different parts of the country. All the Mexicans I have met are hard working waiters, delivery people, deli countermen and women.)

  9. @ Michael S:
    The Korean comfort women were tricked or kidnapped into going to Japan and sexually enslaved. Few survived. Hundreds of Thousands of them. Japan has never apologized.

    What do you mean “freely helped yourselves.” Kidnapped and raped?

  10. @ Sebastien Zorn:
    Edgar,

    Pardon my racial profiling, but I’ll bet the cabbie was black. I’ve never owned a college blazer, but I’ve paid my “Whitey jizrah” in a few of our “no-go” areas across America. White guys ripped me off too, but they were usually “friends”, taking advantage of me.

    The biggest, biggest ripoffs ever that my wife and I have encountered have been white high-rollers: hoteliers, real estate brokers, etc. They rip you off for thousands, all under the protection of the law. What you lost in that cab was peanuts, by comparison.

    Hi, Sebastian.

    My brother-in-law fought in the Korean War. He assures me, that it was very much like Vietnam: a civil war that became a Commies vs. US proxy war, with a 180º perimeter. We also bombed North Korea back into the stone age, just as we did in Vietnam; and when the GIs returned home, there was no victory parade.

    You are right, that in Korea, we had some “international dignity”, thanks to our UN seal of approval; but nobody ever labored under the illusion that it was anything but an American war. In fact, in terms of percent of troops involved and casualties, Korea was more an American war than Vietnam. Fewer countries helped us in Nam; but those that did, contributed more troops — especially, ironically the South Koreans!

    Nowadays, the S. Koreans are still bitching about their “comfort women” servicing Japanese soldiers in WWII and before (over 70 years ago!!); but in VN, we all had local “comfort women” — including the South Koreans, who were known to freely help themselves of the local virgins. In SHARP contrast to the South Koreans, the Vietnamese don’t even talk about the war; and “comfort women” has never come up as an issue. Give me ARVN any day, compared to those northern GUKs.

    Don’t lose sleep over Nikki Haley. Trump will stand with Israel; I think you can count on it. Erdogan, on the other hand, is a snake, coiled and ready to strike.

  11. @ Edgar G.:
    They took care of that with sting operations years ago and the Taxi and Limousine Commission still polices everything on top of the police, plus GPS monitors and now there are all kinds of car services plus an air train that connects directly with the subway for $5 if you can wheel your own luggage. The Subway has elevators in key places, the airport has moving ramps in places. All new. The old airport is gone.

    @Michael S.

    The Korean War only became a UN war instead of a Vietnam style war because the Soviet Ambassador was mysteriously absent for the vote. Nobody forsaw the number they pulled in December. I hope nothing goes awry.

  12. @ Michael S:

    Regarding your comment that you didn’t have any problems in New York. The difference I think is that you are obviously an American and know your way around, so they wouldn’t try to stiff you, or maybe you got an honest cabbie. With me, I was obviously NOT an American and have an educated English type accent, at least I had then having been in Canada only a few years. I still am recognisably not a native, I was young, in a hurry wearing my college blazer, with heavy luggage etc. A pigeon ready to be plucked..

    That’s my reasoning, Sherlock Holmes style…… without the cocaine….

  13. @ Edgar G.:
    HI, Edgar. You said,

    “All I can say is that I don’t agree with your comments and leave it at that.”

    That adequately covers it. No need for the rest.

    Concerning New York City, I was there twice: once most ly under it, it seems, after sunset, on a through train from Philadelphia; and once by cab to and from JFK Airport. I didn’t get ripped off in the cab, I imagine, because it was a New Jersey cab. In my short experiences in and around the place, I came under the impression that New Yorkers are generally friendly people — unique, but friendly.

    Moshe Feiglin…

    “Feiglin, a former Likud MK, said he looks forward to the day when Jews around the world will have the right to vote directly for the Knesset; but meanwhile his party is arranging for the 250 Zehut members abroad to vote for a representative who will be No. 10 on the list. The candidate will be chosen in a special election on Sunday.”

    Number TEN? Right. And #11 is Elvis Presley’s dead body and #12 is a yellow dog. All of these are in the “when pigs fly” category — nothing to waste any time discussing. This must really be a “slow news” week.

    Sebastien:

    “Why is the Security Council voting on Monday to nullify Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem when they know the U.S. will veto?”

    Maybe they think Nikki Haley will accidentally bump the wrong voting button. More likely, they’re simply showcasing — puffing out their chests.

  14. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    It’s like a bunch of monkeys going through the routine their trainer taught them when the bell rings. The likely get extra pay for showing up, and at least people can see that they’re doing something (useless) for their money. It’s also showing solidarity with the Jew haters.

  15. Why is the Security Council voting on Monday to nullify Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem when they know the U.S. will veto? Do they have some new trick up their sleeves like last December when Trump was able to stop one anti-Israel resolution only for them to pull a fast one and get another one through under the wire when nobody was looking?

  16. @ Edgar G.:
    Even the absentee ballot for expats. Why does everybody assume that expats will vote for Jewish over Arab interests? All of the Israelis I’ve met over here have been liberals. Best left as is. You go to Cyprus to get married. You go home to vote. Seems perfectly reasonable. At least until such time as the National Camp abroad outnumbers them.

  17. @ Michael S:

    I had a HUGE, VERY LAST WORD killer post all written up, and ready, and I damned well pressed the wrong tab and the site disappeared. I’d just finished writing down my impressions of Hershel Shanks and Moses Shapira and his poor daughter, and a multitude of books I own, and others I’ve read, all on the subjects of the origin of Christianity and also the Dead Sea Scrolls, even peripheral matter relating to them.. .

    I’m not going to do it again, and will stick with my resolve to NOT discuss religion with you. Jotting down a quote from my book on the Cairo Geniza messed it all up. Blame Solomon Schecter. I talked about the “zugot”, a wide reaching post believe me…The Copper Scroll, and…and …and .Oy Veh I’d better forget about it.

    One last little thing. John and his followers never had anything to do with the Essenes. They called themselves Mandeans and left the area to avoid the Herodians, and the later Roman WAR and are living on the banks of the Euphrates at this minute,,,,,, I think….

    All I can say is that I don’t agree with your comments and leave it at that. Any other subject ..fine..you are a congenial correspondent.

  18. @ Edgar G.:
    Actually, this is big. LIke “The Goldbergs,” falls into category of most famous people you (us Yanks, anywho) never heard of. I’m surprised at you. You normally only cite obscure things. You’re slipping, chum.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/10/100-best-novels-three-men-boat-jerome

    as free ebook

    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/308

    You remind me of the shrink in the hilarious courtoom scene at the end of this the judge can’t understand.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joBmLmAETZg

  19. @ Michael S:

    “Pincus was a very religious man, but after nearly 60 years strict observance to Jewish law, he was fed up. “Esther,” he tells his wife, “that’s it. I’ve had it! No more getting up early every morning, putting on my tfillin and reciting the same prayers. I’ve made a decision. I’m converting to Catholicism.”

    “Are you crazy?” asks Esther, but Pincus is determined. He goes to a local church, discusses his intentions with the priest, and begins taking instruction. Finally, he is baptized into the Catholic faith.

    The next morning, as always, he gets up early, and without thinking, puts on his tfillin and automatically starts to recite his morning prayers.

    “What are you doing?” asks Esther. “I thought the whole point of becoming Catholic was so you wouldn’t have to do that any more.”

    “Oy!” cried Pincus, smacking himself in the forehead. “Goyshe kopp!””

    http://www.bubbygram.com/zenjewishhumor.htm

    “A rabbi once asked his old friend, a priest, “Could you ever be promoted within your Church?”

    The priest says, thoughtfully, “Well, I could become a bishop.”
    The rabbi persists, “And after that?”
    With a pause for consideration, the priest replies, “Maybe I could be a cardinal, even.”
    “And then?”
    After thinking for some time, the priest responds, “Someday I may even rise to be the Pope.”
    But the rabbi is still not satisfied. “And then?”
    With an air of incredulity, the priest cries, “What more could I become? God Himself?”
    The rabbi says quietly, “One of our boys made it.”‘
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_humour

  20. Michael S Said:

    “Those Pharisees would NEVER have allowed Jesus into their homes, if they did not consider him “Shomer Shabbos”’.

    Unless maybe it was their other home?

    “A rescue party finally finds a Jewish man who’s been shipwrecked on a deserted island for many years. They are amazed to see how industrious he’s been. He’s dug a well and constructed a complex system to bring running water to the sturdy house he’s built from reeds, wood and leaves. He has domesticated some small animals and bred them for food. He’s built a fishing raft from which he can catch nets full of fresh fish. The rescuers, however, are perplexed by two buildings, on opposite ends of the island.

    “What are those,” they ask.

    “Well, this one is my synagogue.”‘

    “And the other?”

    “That’s a synagogue too, but I wouldn’t be caught dead in that one!”

    http://www.bubbygram.com/zenjewishhumor.htm

  21. @ Michael S:
    @Edgar G: I am also shocked that you are not from Wisconsin. I cannot begin to convey the depth of my disappointment. HOW COULD YOU! I expect you to make deficiency up in your next 10 lifetimes.

  22. @ Edgar G.:
    Hi, Edgar

    I might have to cut this short. I would like to go to church services this morning, and still need to get ready.

    I’m sorry to hear that you are not from Wisconsin, as I had come to believe. We would’ve had something in common. You said,

    “Religion as you and I know it, has nothing to do with Churches, and Synagogues are for me more a congregation of people both religious and not, who show by choice, our Faith and our People. We are also carrying on our traditions.”

    Obviously, I have NOT been carrying out my traditions; so I have to qualify what you said. In fact, pray for me this morning. The church I attend was once a Plymouth Brethren church, and I imagine you have some familiarity with it. They can be pretty divided in opinions sometimes; but miraculously, this group has hung together since the without anyone biting off anyone else’s head (though blood may have been drawn, allegorically, once or twice). If your wife grew up in this church, she may have had a foretaste of Judaism in this way.

    Today, of course, if five lights into Hanukkah, and I plan to take along a hanukiah for “show and tell”. Having gotten shot down by an anti-Semitic rant there a week ago, this could be touch-and-go. I need God’s grace, to get it across peacefully.

    Yes, I have had a “strong religious curiosity”, as far back as I can remember.

    Comments on Judaism: You note the differences between the Orthodox sects, on the one hand, and the Reform and Conservative (I would add Reconstructionist and Renewal, which are very big where I live). The split I was referring to, was much older. It comes from the first century CE. Briefly, here it is:

    I. The big split

    This is between Christianity and what is today called “Judaism”. It developed in the decades after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Christianity developed, of course, around the gospels. Judaism had to make a major adjustment, to transfer the Temple-centered religion into a home-centered and synagogue-centered one. This process had begun hundreds of years before, in Babylon; but now it was urgent. It is out of this reformation, that Mishnah developed first, then Gemarah.

    II. The earlier splits

    The Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed much about the state of Judaism in the time of Jesus (MY timeline, of course, not yours). The major splits go back largely to the time of Mattathias Maccabee I do not have time to go into them right now; but they certainly are apropo, considering the season we are in.

    “Mishna was the result of an unbroken tradition.”

    I agree completely. In fact, the New Testament has references to an Oral Tradition that was later codified in Talmud. Modern Judaism came from the Pharisaical tradition, as did also Christianity:

    Luke 7:
    [36] And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.

    Those Pharisees would NEVER have allowed Jesus into their homes, if they did not consider him “Shomer Shabbos”. Most of Jesus’ parables, in fact, were not directed at the Pharisees, as many today seem to believe. They were directed more at the Essenes (the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls), with whom John the Baptist’s followers had a close association.

    I have to go. Chag sameach 🙂

  23. Edgar G. Said:

    New York taxi thing was the my first US experience, It just added to my learning.

    Very funny movie “Night on Earth” Jim Jarmusch. 1991. Five taxi rides on the same night in cities around the world.
    Part I

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR6pmB09s5U

    Part 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGHm_eBDOMQ

    Part 3
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_LrMyubSw

    Part 4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8C5IRYjSJs

    Another great parody of the NY that was

    Quick Change Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcap30hydUY

  24. @ Edgar G.:
    Yeah, but we can’t vote. And if he makes it so we can, there won’t be enough of us to stop the craziness of most of those in the diaspora who can. The Israeli system is so complicated, I don’t know if it could be rammed through or not. Oslo wasn’t popular either. None of the withdrawals were. They were all implemented by right-wing politicians who had gotten elected on a platform of opposing the very thing they would then set about doing!

  25. @ Edgar G.:
    I don’t blame you. From the ’60s until about five or ten years ago, it was pretty bad. Despite being the unchanging center of the universe. I think you’d like it now. Though the subway is still a mess. I’ve made the observation that at this time of year, all the religions try to comfort people for the utter transience of everything around us and so offer us hope for an absolute unchanging reality in the Great beyond. But, you know, there really is an unchanging reality we can trust in, rely upon, have faith in which we can see and touch. It’s all around us. It’s this. The Subway system sucks. Regardless of what improvements they try to make. They will just make it suck in new ways. It sucks. It has always sucked. It will always suck.

    We can take comfort in that.

  26. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    I was only one time in New York and never ever have wanted to go there again. It was in the 1960s when passenger ships still operated. My boat was sailing from New York, and I travelled from Vancouver-Toronto-New York by train, then stayed overnight at a YMCA. . I had a travel trunk which opened standing up with clothes hangers inside etc. You see them still in period movies. Next morning I got a Yellow Cab, it seemed very dilapidated like NY itself, and the trunk was on the bare metal floor in front of the back seat, a huge back seat area. I didn’t have very much time to make the boat. Somewhere along the way, the cursed driver stopped, and refused to go any further unless I paid him double fare…… I had to.

    I can say, that although in Dublin, after college, I was competently managing my family business with about 70-80 employees, for several years, my REAL EDUCATION only began after I had landed in Canada at age nearly 28. This New York taxi thing was the my first US experience, It just added to my learning. From then on, I was doing more “suspecting than respecting” for quite a while.

  27. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    Not too long after, I’m not too young you know. (When my grandfather was a kid, one of Napoleon’s brothers was still alive, I think Jerome.).The book was written at the very beginning of the Gay 90s and has never been out of print. I must have about 4-5 copies of it. I once had a 1st edition and loaned it to a friend shortly after I arrived in Canada and he said he returned it by placing it leaning against the front door of my rooming house….Yeah. He stole the damned thing, it even had paper clippings of the progress of the primcipal characters the previous owner had collected over his lifetime. .. I grieved.

    But it taught me never , absolutely never ever again to lend a book.

  28. @ Edgar G.:
    Now, before the Civil War, people said, The United States of America are … Since the Civil War (there’s only one, see) people have said, the United States is.

    Similarly, whereas, The United States of America includes fly-over country, Europe, consists entirely of fly-over countries, see? There’ll be a quiz, later.

  29. @ Sebastien Zorn:
    It ate the second part. Here:

    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.705232

    And, it distinguishes very sharply between different kinds of friendly strangers, on the one hand, and different kinds of enemies, on the other. Both internal and external.

    It’s like these buffoons have gotten a hold of one sentence and they can’t let it go or look away so they apply it anachronistically and pour it all over everything. Like Ketchup. Kerry would be proud. Ketchup man.

  30. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    Well at that time you likely had no teeth yet so it shouldn’t have made any difference. For me, “fairies” were young chappies who would walk along together holding hands…I was already past the Peter Pan/Captain Hook stage.

    (which brings me to story I might mention another time)

    It’s hard to imagine that when I was a young gentleman, it was fashionable for men to walk along with linked arms swinging walking canes, I used to have a few straw boaters, canes, fur-lined suede gloves, smooth leather ones for dress wear etc., all the correct paraphernalia. Oh yes, and blazers with college colours and ties . I still have a boater and a blazer with certain dates embroidered below the handkerchief pocket in gold braid, fully finished with gold buttons with the university arms embossed……swanky…..

    Thinking about it in later years, I was always reminded of “Three Men in a Boat” I think the funniest book in the English language.

  31. Sebastien Zorn Said:

    The Jewish Case Against Donald Trump

    I stumbled on this while looking for something attributed to Rabbi Akiva with the word for the verb to trump in it so I googled Rabbi Akiva and Trump and got the following nonsense. [You know the Torah clearly distinguishes between different types of enemies in different contexts. Why don’t I see anybody pointing this out. There is a difference between somebody who doesn’t like me, somebody who is plotting against my life and somebody who wants to exterminate my people. It clearly makes such distinctions. See next post, it split them.

  32. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    Maybe she was a comedian and that was part of a skit. Old Macy and me…we used to go drinking every Friday night to celebrate Saturday night. He sold me a silver (plated) tea service set which cost a fortune and was as heavy as hell. It eventually ended up decorating the sideboard.

  33. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    Please clarify..What have Christians and Jews done from time immemorial, bash Trump?

    I didn’t know this. Of course not being a peripatetic musician and joiner of esoteric ritual groups, which seems to qualify you for everything…….. It sort of reminds me of a master Chef in his kitchen going around tasting everything and instructing “a little more garlic here”.. “a soupcon of thyme here”….and so on. I’m not well up on any of this Christian and Jew Trump bashing, previous to the recent Presidential Election.

  34. I knew who Santa Claus was of course, because they showed “Miracle on 34th Street” with little Natalie Wood and Monty Woolly all the time on tv and, of course, the annual Macy’s parade, but I knew that was a myth because I come from a show business family and my Mommy told me told me that there was no Mr. Macy. But, she never told me there was no Tooth Fairy. It’s good to believe in things.

  35. @ Sebastien Zorn:

    At the time neither of us knew that the Satmar were anti-Zionist, and it never came up. The Rebbe knew that she wanted to go to Israel for the usual reasons, she would be a Jew and Israel was the place for Jews, and she supported Zionism. This info was given to him by my wife. I only met him once, as follows. After the conversion the Rebbe wanted to meet any man she was interested in, so I met him, and asked why he wanted to meet me. He said, that he wanted to make sure who and what I was, and would not interfere with her Yiddishkeit or he would have forbidden the marriage. I thought..”how quaint”.

  36. Christmas, as we know, being just the Christian Chanukkha, with a tree instead of a Menorah and only one day for gifts for the kids instead of 8. Of course, the adults get gifts on Christmas too, which undoubtedly accounts for its popularity over the millenia. But, I think that’s reasonable because kids have never gotten much allowance and can’t afford to give 8 days worth of presents. Unless they make them, but not everybody is artistic. Outside of Bali. I wonder what Jesus gave his Mom for Christmas. And, did he wrap it himself or did he go to Barnes and Noble and have them or some kind of worthwhile charity for transgendered Muslim actors with HIV do it for a voluntary contribution. Deep questions. Tired now.

    My bed.