Posted on 12/25/2005 10:37:22 AM PST by Alouette
I see the JPost "talkback" has been FREEPED :)
Judy is getting seriously bashed in the forum over there, out of 200 posts I think fewer than 10 were in her support.
Wow! This sick scumbag, Judy Maltz, should pack her crap and go back to Israel.
People who support the "tyranny of the minority" and who think nothing of wiping out Christmas for 99 kids just so that one kid's mother is not "offended" should be set on fire.
that's a bit extreme. But I wouldn't mind seeing her placed in a pillory on the town square.
Actually, I don't think she can, unless she's willing to send them to someplace at least 3 hours away. Local School Districts here in central PA have been very successful at keeping competition out. There are very few private schools - the catholic school just started going past 6th grade a couple years ago, and I heard the Christian school closed. No other private schools past 6th grade, because PA law makes it very onerous to have middle or high school as a private school. I've often suspected that the local school district is quick to report the few private schools we go have, for infractions of rules that the public schools don't have to follow...
I would like to gently remind Judy that in her corner of the world, you know you're the only Jew on the block when the neighborhood is brightly lit by incoming mortar rounds and RPGs.....
Promise.
As someone who attended the school district she's talking about in the 1960's-70's, I have to say we didn't learn Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel. We learned Hava Nageela, and did the Hanukkah celebrations in elementary school to learn more about our Jewish classmates. I find it hard to believe the the schools have become LESS diverse since then rather than more. I know my children, in school there, had a primarily secular experience, leving me to teach them my religion outside of school.
They're the ones you invite over to dinner, grill some steaks, pop the cork on a bottle of wine...and they bitch about the vintage being the "wrong year".
Actually, there is a fair amount of anti-Amishism. The are often described in unflattering terms by SOME of those who live near them. Local governments are betraying their own anti-Amish sentiments by passing and enforcing regulations that really only apply to the Amish (no horses in R1 zoning, Walker Twp Centre Country PA, when the Amish were the only ones with horses). Never heard of any Amish bombing anyone over it though...
"...I've known people like Judy Maltz...."
Dittos
And we she leaves a room everyone says, 'how does her husband put up with her?'
In my grade school - 40 years ago - we sang christmas and hannuka songs, and "let there be peace on earth" - with a Jewish kid as soloist. If anybody had a problem with singing songs from another religious tradition, I never heard about it. I don't know what's happened in the intervening years.
It's called "respect". Most Christians (not all, but most) respect other religious traditions.
Indeed, the same could be said of courteous people adhering to any religious tradition. But, evidently, not Judy Maltz...
If this woman were a Christian, she'd be bitching about the Jews...
Dear Judas...er, Judy:
The Moon is a satellite of the Earth. It revolves around the Earth.
The Earth, along with the other planets and their respective orbiting moons, revolve around the Sun.
The Sun, along with the planets and their moons, form a Solar System that orbits the center of a galaxy known as the Milky Way.
The Milky Way is part of a larger system of galaxies known as the Local Group which, along with other groups of galaxies, orbits the center of the Universe.
That central point in the Universe, Judy...is NOT YOU!
Let me add one final comment to Judy: When you have achieved the staus that Jesus holds in our society, then you can tell us how we must worship. Deal?
My guess is that wouldn't even spit in our general direction, let alone die on a cross for our sins.
If she were a Muslim, she'd be hacking the heads off of anyone who wasn't.
Then may I gently suggest that, if insulating her children from all things Christian is her goal, she move three hours away?
If I went to live in Israel and discovered that they sang Jewish songs, I wouldn't at all be surprised.
I don't think any adult would be surprised. It would be a time for me and mine to learn a little about a new culture.
I wonder why the Founding Fathers thought it best for us all to simply be adult about these things and get along with our differences, rather than try to force us into some bland homogenaeity that doesn't actually exist in the real world?
"The truth is that after living so many years in Israel, we didn't give much thought to what Jewish life would be like out there in central Pennsylvania."
She should have thought about what "life" would be like.
Good place to quit reading.
Silly Wabbit!
"Victims" are us.
One can freep that listing.
I'll second that!
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