ROUGH-&-REBBE BRAWLER: I FIGHT FOR SUPERMAN (Compares Rabbi to Lex Luthor)

New York Post ^ | December 17, 2004 | DENISE BUFFA

[nickcarraway]

"The Rebbe is Superman and [Rabbi] Yehuda Krinsky is Lex Luthor, you understand?" Meyer Romano, 23, told The Post yesterday as he left Brooklyn criminal court after a night in jail.

Romano was one of a crowd that was busted Wednesday for trying to interfere with Krinsky's placement of a plaque honoring Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, the founder of the Lubavitch movement who died in 1994.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[rmlew]

Our music may suck, but sometimes it is nice to be rarely observant mitnigadim.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Thanks.

I think this calls for the intervention of...HANNUKAH HARRY!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz:

Wha? Ya got a friggin' problem with a bunch a' freaks beatin' da crap outa each udder? Next ting ya know, you'll be bitchin' about not being hit ova da head wit a brick. Get da f**K outa heah!

(This message sponsored by the Kings County Tourism Board.)

[nickcarraway]

You've got to admire their tenacity.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Indeed.

When you're a devotee, you're a devotee.

Otherwise, you're just a piker.

[nickcarraway]

To them, I can see it is an abomination to put that plaque up. I guess it is appropriate that this happened around Channukah. The Messianists see this like the desecration of the Temple.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Yeah, it's definitely bizarre.

There is a history professor at my alma mater-whose classes, unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to take-who is a noted scholar in Judaic Studies, in this field, especially.

He wrote a book about this particular community-which has some adherents in the adjacent neighborhoods of Midwood and Flatbush-that critiqued their blind belief in the fiction that Rebbe Schneerson was and remains the messiah.

Long story short, the leaders of this movement basically accused him of being another Osama Bin Laden.

[dangus]

>>Our music may suck, but sometimes it is nice to be rarely observant mitnigadim.<<

The Beastie Boys?
Rush?

Oh, that's not what you mean.

I had a Jewish roommate in college. Kid was first-rate, and I learned a lot of my own religion through conversations with him and his mother. He had Jewish covers of loads of pop songs. What broke me up was "the Land Down Under." Not so much the lyrical changes to make Australis in to Israel, but changing "Aye-aye-aye-Aye-aye-aye-AYE!" to "Oy-oy-oy-Oy-oy-oy-OY!"

I swear I'm not making that up.

[dangus]

Sigh. Didn't they finally change Kings County to Brooklyn County? I've been working with a lot of government data (election returns, census figures, appropriation) and it all refers to the counties of New York, Queens, Brooklyn, and Bronx in the latest data where they had referred to Kings in prior data.

[Cacique]

The counties have not changes. There are five counties in New York. Richmond, Kings, Queens, Bronx and New York. I have no clue why some illiterates with a public school education get things mixed up and refer to Brooklyn as Brooklyn county. Unfortunately if you ask most Brooklyn residents where Kings county is, they have no clue.

[NYC GOP Chick]

These people are vying with the Satmars, to see who can be the wackiest Orthodox Jews.

[dangus]

Those "public school illiterates" include the US Dept of Census.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684859440/ref=ase_samuelfreedman/002-0818346-962241

[Cacique]

Kings county has been Kings county since it was founded in 1683. I would expect even an idiot working for the US Dept of Census to at least be able to look it up on the net. You can type Kings county on Google and get a gazillion hits. But education being what it is these days in general I don't expect self initiative. A timely thread on this subject right here on FR points to the problem.

[ken21]

A Lubavitch spokesman, Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, said that the arrested men "lack respect for any religious or legal authority. Pray for them."