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when i say mazel, you say tov!
At the end of spring, my family and I attended the last of the Long Island Bar Mitzvahs. Not to say that there will no longer be Bar Mitzvahs on Long Island, but it was the youngest cousin’s Bar Mitzvah and there are no longer any Long Island Bar Mitzvahs that I need to attend. Read more »
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when i say mazel, you say tov!
At the end of spring, my family and I attended the last of the Long Island Bar Mitzvahs. Not to say that there will no longer be Bar Mitzvahs on Long Island, but it was the youngest cousin’s Bar Mitzvah and there are no longer any Long Island Bar Mitzvahs that I need to attend. Read more »
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when i say mazel, you say tov!
At the end of spring, my family and I attended the last of the Long Island Bar Mitzvahs. Not to say that there will no longer be Bar Mitzvahs on Long Island, but it was the youngest cousin’s Bar Mitzvah and there are no longer any Long Island Bar Mitzvahs that I need to attend. Read more »
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when i say mazel, you say tov!
At the end of spring, my family and I attended the last of the Long Island Bar Mitzvahs. Not to say that there will no longer be Bar Mitzvahs on Long Island, but it was the youngest cousin’s Bar Mitzvah and there are no longer any Long Island Bar Mitzvahs that I need to attend. Read more »
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Posted in: Ed Case: MASA gaffe shows what Israelis don't understand about intermarriage
10/11/09 04:14 AM
I don't think anyone reasonable would equate intermarriage with an automatic negation and elimination of Jewish life. I, like many others I am sure, know many intermarried couples and children of intermarriage who lead full and rich Jewish lives. Furthermore, intermarried couples and their children ought not be treated like pariahs and every effort should be made to make them feel welcome both socially and communally. But please, let's not be slaves to political correctness. While individual exceptions exist, intermarriage on a communal level is a threat to Jewish continuity. There's just no sense pussyfooting around the very real studies that dramatically demonstrate that. Ed Case posits the cherry-picked 2005 Boston Jewish Community Survey and ignores the 1999 "America's Jewish Freshmen" study that surveyed 250,000 American Jewish freshmen that found that “38 percent of the teens identified as Jews if just their mother was Jewish, and only 15 percent if their father was Jewish.” Also ignored were the surveys and studies cited by SimpleToRemember.com that demonstrate clearly the effect that intermarriage has on basic, large scale Jewish identification. The answer is not, of course, to demonize intermarried couples and their children. The best way to deal with these disturbing trends is to promote greater and more compelling Jewish education and innovative Jewish programing while being as inclusive, sensitive and compassionate as possible. The notion however, that intermarriage is somehow good for the Jews, is just patently false. The key isn't whether or not these families are raising their children as Jews, but rather the question that should be asked, a question that has already been decisively answered by survey after survey, is how many of the children and grandchildren of these intermarried families identify as Jews. The answer is not many. Not many at all. I wish the folks at interfaithfamily.com would at least be honest about that.
Posted in: J-Vibe to shut print publication and maybe online mag, as JFL sunsets
08/28/09 12:19 AM
Hey kids! I know that losing J-Vibes is a real downer! But don't fret! Because we never got any kind of community funding, this latest economic downturn hasn't affected us at all! You can still come to Jewlicious.com and read all the latest Jews that's fit to print! Just make sure that Mom and Dad say it's ok! All kidding aside though, we are indeed saddened by the loss of yet another top-notch Jewish project, especially one aimed at the otherwise under-served teen demographic. Perhaps what will be needed in the future is long term funding in tandem with serious plans for sustainability.
Posted in: Jewish Agency ad camapign gets MASA-smutty
06/14/09 03:24 AM
Aw sorry Jacob. I didn't mean to be all pissy. Just trying to promote conversation as well. And, lo and behold - Mission Accomplished! Thanks to your comment I now know more than I did before. Thanks for enlightening me and I am glad and relieved that there exist some metrics that demonstrate that the campaign was in fact quite successful.
Posted in: Jewish Agency ad camapign gets MASA-smutty
06/06/09 04:41 PM
Wow. That was sooo steamy! I am verily throbbing here. What a timely post too. Those videos were only uploaded to YouTube what, 3 months ago? The real story, and one that would have benefited your readership, is why these otherwise clever, professionally executed videos only garnered less than 8000 views on YouTube. Those numbers are rather low. That would have been an interesting and productive discussion. Pissing on this campaign because it's "racy" is rather weak. And before anyone jumps down my throat, we helped promote the video series with a post and a banner ad on Jewlicious. The banners appeared on several other sites and that was the extent of our involvement. MASA did this one by the book apparently and still the results were disappointing. Why? That's the relevant question and not the moral, puritan, holier than thou non-issues you brought up.
Posted in: About that email
04/05/09 02:33 PM
Benefits? You get to help save the JTA!! Isn't that enough?
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