Comments on: Monday morning briefs

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:57:30 +0000

This is a joke website: http://www.dhmo.org

This is a joke website: http://www.lakemichiganwhales.com/

And oddly enough, this is not: http://www.quitpalestine.org/

You talk about self-hating Jews. These are people with a real cognitive dissonance problem.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:59:42 +0000

Actually, it does not say any of that. It does say “Bnei Yisroel” (transliterated from the Hebrew, but the original siddur does not have any English words in it. The siddur only has Hebrew and Aramaic.

“Israeli” is used today in the same way that “Yehudi” (currently translated as “Jew”) is used in the megillah. Mordechai of the tribe of Binyamin, the “Yehudi” (from the country of Yehudah).

Just because a person is an “Israeli” (from the current state of Israel does not mean that heesh is one of the people referenced in the siddur. After all, the State of Israel is one of the few nations in the world today that honestly accepts citizens of all origins and creeds. Just because a person is technically Jewish does not mean that what heesh does is “Jewish” or even “Israeli”.

In fact citizens of the State of Israel are among the worst enemies of the Jews today. It is an insult to Yehoshua the succesor of Moshe Rabbeinu that this person (mis)uses his name.

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:57:19 +0000

“Israeli”? Where does it say, “Israeli” in the siddur? I see “children of Israel” and “your people, Israel” and so on. But as far as I know, “Israeli” (as opposed to, say, Israelite) is fairly modern term. No?