Forgiving Ronan Tynan http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/forgiving-ronan-tynan/ Meet the Teaneck, N.J., resident who made the match between the Anti-Defamation League and Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, after he landed in hot water for making an anti-Jewish comment. Tynan stole the show at Thursday night’s ADL dinner with an apology and a dramatic rendition of “God Bless America.” en-us gilshefler@gmail.com Copyright 2009 2009-10-30T;19:30:00-05:00 Comment by Evan Zuesse tzur@optusnet.com.au steve ariza may be in Outer Mongolia.  You cannot believe everything a blogger, especially such a nasty one, says about himself/herself, starting with the claim to being Jewish at all.  I tend to give the benefit of a doubt, although steve ariza stretches it quite a bit - see the uniformly negative tone of all his posts. steve ariza may be in Outer Mongolia.  You cannot believe everything a blogger, especially such a nasty one, says about himself/herself, starting with the claim to being Jewish at all.  I tend to give the benefit of a doubt, although steve ariza stretches it quite a bit - see the uniformly negative tone of all his posts.

]]> 2012-02-09T;19:12:00-05:00 Comment by Norman Kabak nkabak@msn.com Steve Ariza: “ vile disgusting clown abe foxman yimach shemo” Sad to to know that “Seenus Achim” is alive and well. What was one of the causes of the destruction of the Temple? Steve Ariza: “ vile disgusting clown abe foxman yimach shemo”
Sad to to know that “Seenus Achim” is alive and well.
What was one of the causes of the destruction of the Temple?

]]> 2012-02-09T;19:12:00-05:00 Comment by Bill Pearlman WPearlman@aol.com Danny, relax, I’m usually very sensitive towards this kind of stuff but give the guy a break. You hear way more anti-semitism at any gathering of moslems more then one person. Or for that matter at the recent j-street gala. Besides, he does do a great rendition of god bless america. Danny, relax, I’m usually very sensitive towards this kind of stuff but give the guy a break. You hear way more anti-semitism at any gathering of moslems more then one person. Or for that matter at the recent j-street gala. Besides, he does do a great rendition of god bless america.

]]> 2012-02-09T;19:12:00-05:00 Comment by danny bloom danbloom@gmail.com SOme people in the USA still don’t get it. Yes, forgive the man who his antisemitism, but don’t deny he said what he said and don’t ignore why he said it. The man is an immigrant to the USA, applying for US citizenship and yet he carries within him the seeds of British antisemitism. Ask John Derbyshire, he will tell you. Social antisemittism is a reality in the USA. Tynan was very very wrong to say what he said and he should do penance for the rest of his life. He is a hypocrite, another damn Catholic antisemite! The gall! He comes to the USA to be an immigrant and he tries to lord it over other people. Sick sick man. And now he says it was just a joke. Sure. QUOTE” Tynan called Gold-von Simson to apologize and told NBC he intended his comment to be a joke. Tynan also told the Associated Press he is donating to KiDS of NYU, an NYU Langone children’s health services foundation. Gold-von Simson said she accepted the apology, but is still horrified by Tynan’s conduct. “The incident was not a joke,” Gold-von Simson said Saturday, on her way to the Yankees game. “What bothered me, I think even more than the anti-Semitism it portrayed, was the hypocrisy of it all, that this is coming from a man who is an immigrant and who sings ‘God Bless America’ in Yankee Stadium.” SOme people in the USA still don’t get it. Yes, forgive the man who his antisemitism, but don’t deny he said what he said and don’t ignore why he said it. The man is an immigrant to the USA, applying for US citizenship and yet he carries within him the seeds of British antisemitism. Ask John Derbyshire, he will tell you. Social antisemittism is a reality in the USA. Tynan was very very wrong to say what he said and he should do penance for the rest of his life. He is a hypocrite, another damn Catholic antisemite! The gall! He comes to the USA to be an immigrant and he tries to lord it over other people. Sick sick man. And now he says it was just a joke. Sure.

QUOTE” Tynan called Gold-von Simson to apologize and told NBC he intended his comment to be a joke. Tynan also told the Associated Press he is donating to KiDS of NYU, an NYU Langone children’s health services foundation. Gold-von Simson said she accepted the apology, but is still horrified by Tynan’s conduct.
“The incident was not a joke,” Gold-von Simson said Saturday, on her way to the Yankees game. “What bothered me, I think even more than the anti-Semitism it portrayed, was the hypocrisy of it all, that this is coming from a man who is an immigrant and who sings ‘God Bless America’ in Yankee Stadium.”

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