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So much for the potato warning the timing of which the Times said was a coincidence. They just didn't want to run it before Thanksgiving.

Fried Potatoes Are Deadly, New York Times Warns as Hanukkah Nears

1 posted on 12/05/2018 5:30:59 AM PST by SJackson

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The New York Times and Hanukkah=American Jewry’s Hanukkah Hypocrisy?

2 posted on 12/05/2018 5:38:22 AM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)

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Tradition has made it about “assimilationist Jews” but the actual point was the respect shown the temple, of which there was exactly one. I think this fellow honors that he doesn’t go eat his ham sandwiches in an Orthodox Jewish synagogue — he has that respect for people who still strive to revere the law in its exactitude. Not keeping kosher privately at home isn’t the same as taking a legally proscribed animal, a pig, to the one and only temple to slay it as an offering.

So why would I, as a Christian, care? Because the entire backdrop of Judaism, with its scripture and history and traditions, is necessary for the Christian story to make ultimate sense. The context for an Incarnation isn’t there without it.

3 posted on 12/05/2018 5:59:02 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)

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No mention of God or miracles or faith. Lost opportunity.

4 posted on 12/05/2018 6:01:52 AM PST by Raycpa

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Imperfection framed as hypocrisy. This sounds like typical anti-religious tripe.

7 posted on 12/05/2018 6:56:15 AM PST by fruser1

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The only trouble is the actual holiday. Not the latkes and the dreidels, but the story of Hanukkah, which at its heart is an eight-night-long celebration of religious fundamentalism and violence

Yeah, baby . . . YEAH!!!

So Hanukkah, in essence, commemorates the triumph of fundamentalism over cosmopolitanism. Our assimilationist answer to Christmas is really a holiday about subjugating assimilated Jews.

Finally . . . somebody gets it!

Go Maccabees!

8 posted on 12/05/2018 7:14:28 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?)

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Deadly or not I’m fixing some of those latkes—and more than I think I want.

9 posted on 12/05/2018 7:16:40 AM PST by Savage Beast (Trump is by far the intellectual, moral, and spiritual superior of those who seek to destroy him.)

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I want my Hamantashen. Poppy seed
Do they have anything to do with Hanukkah? Probably not, but I love them.

11 posted on 12/05/2018 7:24:23 AM PST by Vinnie

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Hey, any holiday that He made a road trip to celebrate is OK by me.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+10%3A22-23&version=ESV

12 posted on 12/05/2018 7:36:49 AM PST by PlateOfShrimp

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Heresies! My Jewish part of the family (1/4) celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah.