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I don’t know whether to laugh (at the ignorance of the consumer) or cry (at the disrespect of the retailer): http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4216160,00.html
“Castro T-shirts include print of Christian prayer, much to embarrassment of one customer who unknowingly purchased shirt and wore it to synagogue”
As the son of a Juban refugee, I’m doubly offended.
David Denby writes another positive review of Footnote in the current (4/16) New Yorker (with some good observations). There is also a fascinating A Reporter at Large piece about the reporter’s Hajj which made me wonder about whether it informs a hypothetical vision of what the Shalosh Regalim would be like were they to be re-instituted in modern times. Both articles ate paywalled online.
My wife finds the meeting scene in Footnote to be the best- it’s so typical. (“Yes, we called this meeting just for you, but can you get a chair from across the hall?”)
I once read an essay (or something) showing how every line in The Lord’s Prayer is taken from Tanakh. Not all the same place, of course, but I don’t think there’s anything in it offensive to Jewish beliefs.
Gil, I hope you’re joking. :-)
See annotations of the source text from Matthew at http://tinyurl.com/d269k9v (if Google Books preview is not available from Israel, its p. 13 in The Jewish Annotated NT which, is also previewable on Amazon).
http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/04/among_nj_orthodox_jewish_women.html
Interesting article – basically the organization’s complaint is “judges look at religion as one factor in a custody dispute and generally view stability to be in children’s best interests.”
There was a companion article -not online- whose complaint was orthodox women are not whatever enough to accept those who leave the fold or leave it themselves.
KT
Has anyone applied queuing theory to work out the implications of:
וְקָרֵב פְּזוּרֵינוּ מִבֵּין הַגּויִם. וּנְפוּצותֵינוּ כַּנֵּס מִיַּרְכְּתֵי אָרֶץ. וַהֲבִיאֵנוּ לְצִיּון עִירְךָ בְּרִנָּה. וְלִירוּשָׁלַיִם בֵּית מִקְדָּשְׁךָ בְּשמְחַת עולָם. וְשָׁם נַעֲשה לְפָנֶיךָ אֶת קָרְבְּנות חובותֵינוּ תְּמִידִים כְּסִדְרָם וּמוּסָפִים כְּהִלְכָתָם:
given current population?
Regarding the egg donation article, how kosher is YU if it’s serving Beacon and eggs?
IH-what is “queuing theory”, and its relevance to the quoted verse?
Steve — on the supply side there are constraints of time and space which would inform how many korbanot could be made. Or, more interesting, looking at it from the demand side: how big a Beit Mikdash and numbers of active Mizbechot would be needed to satisfy our present day population.
This can all be mathematically modeled and I’m asking if someone has done it and published the results.
IH-Interesting idea, but it does sound like Hilcasa LMishicha at the present.
“Steve — on the supply side there are constraints of time and space which would inform how many korbanot could be made. Or, more interesting, looking at it from the demand side: how big a Beit Mikdash and numbers of active Mizbechot would be needed to satisfy our present day population.
This can all be mathematically modeled and I’m asking if someone has done it and published the results”
The present worldwide Jewish population is on the order of magnitude from 1/4 to 2/3 of the worldwide Jewish population before churban bayis sheini-not a quantum change-if one reads about korban Pesach they had no problem shechtim them all back then.
Re R Gil’s letter to the JW, look at it this way-the article in question merely focused on four reasons to attend a school other than YU-price, profession, parochialism and partying.
Can anyone vouch for the denomination and background of the clergyman , if any,who presided at the ceremony discussed in the following linked article?http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/fashion/weddings/chris-barley-and-marc-kushner-vows.html?ref=style
For a sense of scale, the Hajj occurs over 5 days. In 2008, there were around 2.5m participants, of which a subset can be seen in this photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Al-Haram_mosque_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg
As I understand it, the space you see (the courtyard of The Great Mosque) can accomodate 300,000 people at one time and is 16,000 square metres in size.
There are about 13.5m Jews worldwide.
Steve:
It looks like he is Conservative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_Baith_Israel_Anshei_Emes#refLeadership
re: quering theory question — havent done analysis, but there is a gemara (and a josephus) that says several million ppl did korban pesach (at 22 ppl / “seh”, which other gemaras say was a “bet avot” for pesach.) (i believe the gemara says several hundred thousand “se’im”.)
i had an interest in this issue several years ago. did some research then, but not from this analysis.
also, there was only one mizbeach, not mizbachot as you say. though today, when we can make a korban pesach “bachutz” (a whole other story), this would not apply.
2. regarding the nyt “wedding” announcement. its a cousin of that “k”, not a brother. of course, makes no difference. his “preference” was commomn knwoledge in nj, for a long time.
Thanks MMhY. Yes, I know there was only one mizbeach then; but…
So will R Weintraub be kicked out of the RA for officiating at an intermarriage?
jon b — not only do they not have a pblm with intermarriage, its a “good” relationship that he’s promoting.
anyway, the ny bd of rabbis that forbids intermarriage, not the RA. and they have a loose definition of intermarriage (i.e., does not forbid patrilineal descent.)
The RA, while not recognizing same-sex unions, allows individual rabbis to officiate at same-sex marriage ceremonies.
does that include legal same sex marriages (which i asssume this was, per the nyt.)?
either way, jon b’s question revolved around the intermarriage aspects.
The article states Chris Barley converted to Judaism.
IH — sorry, i guess the RA recognizes the conversion. just like they allow indiv C rabbis to accept patrineal descent.
No idea, but why assume the conversion was not standard Conservative?
IH – also, I don’t see the relevance of your pasuk to Korban Pesach, which confused me. Queueing theory (how many other words do you know that have five consecutive vowels? Onomatopoeiae?) is meaningful when you have a lot of processes and a lot of servers – but the temidim and musafim are one per day. Each may consist of several parts, but still one per day, maybe two (v’et musfei yom hashabbat hazeh v’yom tov hazeh…)
korban pesach — many processes — a few hundred thousand in the gemara and in josephus. many servers — i believe all “mishmarot” were called in for that. limited time — afternoon only. three “katot”.
ono… is prob not an english word. prob greek. of course, queue is british, not american english. please send me your cheque. by post.