some nut

I changed my mind about wasting space with this. I also promise never to mention Jewsweek again.

center for jewish breeding?

"everyone knows someone who fell in love on jdate"?

from the commments of this timely and hilarious post at jewlicious:

Comment #10
"Shtreimel, it’s not immediately clear what, if anything, JDate is for.
[...]
Comment by Esther — 5/17/2005 @ 6:45 pm

Comment #11
Esther,
I know quite a few people who met, slept together and never spoke again because of Jdate. Maybe that’s what it’s for."
Comment by shtreimel — 5/17/2005 @ 6:48 pm

Comment #19
"This was a great post! When I first got my Get after 11 years of living as a “Frum” mother and raising “Orthodox” children, I met a man on Frumster for a date…long story short…he is also on Nerve. com looking for couples sex. So I find all these labels very humorous and I think the Frumster people take their job of cubbyholing people way WAY too seriously. What would they label a guy who lives in Teaneck and keeps Kosher and Shabbos but wants you to pee in his mouth during oral sex? I went out with him too and it really bothered me because he wouldn’t let me order the non-kosher wine at the non-kosher restaurant we went to (he had plain salad). I guess pee is kosher if comes from someone he keeps kosher? Don’t know. Sorry to be so graphic, but this hasn’t been easy on me.

Comment by Chutzpah — 5/17/2005 @ 11:54 pm"

Judaism is complicated. Dating is complicated. Jewish dating is insanely complicated. Check out the article and the rest of the comments and I promise hilarity will ensue.

a taste of things to come.

this post is sort of a note to myself. it's sort of a list of things i have to say that i don't have time to say now.

1. being in middle germany
a. do i look like a walking memorial or something?
b. pro-arab/muslim/palestinian/whathaveyou mood here - not sure what to make of it.
c. is feeling isolated because of your religion a rite of passage for diaspora jews?
2. iran - why even if it were plausible, kicking them out of the UN would be fucking stupid.

here's a link to keep you busy in the meantime: (only tangentially related to judaism.)
Can Any Good Come
Of Radical Islam?
A modernizing force? Maybe.

BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA AND NADAV SAMIN

from newzionist

JTW: Like I said, Identity Politics is the way things are going in the world so Jews will just fall into line. I think that the Jewish communities that started to grow in the Red States during the 19th-20th centuries will dissolve due to lack of retention. The older folks will stick around but the young ones will flock to the coasts or urban centers where other Jews are. J-Date will replace the JCCs as the primary organizer of Jewish social interaction, and the movement to ban circumcision in the USA by those liberal uppity Jews will dissociate American Jews from the global Jewish community. I hope that in fifty years the Deep Space Jew project is underway as the Jewish people head off into Diaspora II and spearhead deep space exploration. We’ve proven competent in thriving in an isolated society and Asimov, Captain Kirk and Spock will become the new figureheads of Jewish Tradition as we leave the Jerusalem below in search for the Jerusalem above!

click the newzionist link on the link bar to read the whole interview!