Whitney 'disses' Sharon

http://news.yahoo.com/

[evets]

Singer Whitney Houston turns down the offer of a handshake from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

[Howlin]

7:30.....and I'm going to say that if it's not on there, it is inaccurate.......LOL.

You know if there is trash on Whitney, they'll have it.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Do you have a link to the 'How many angels can fit on the head of a pin' thread?

[Tamar1973]

But, standing outside Sharon's residence, Houston did not shake hands with Israel's burly premier, leaving it to her husband the former singer Bobby Brown.

In Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox and even some Messianic Jewish circles, it is not uncommon for women not to shake hands with the opposite sex. It is considered a nod to modesty in public life to reduce contact w/ the opposite sex as much as possible.

As a conservative messianic, I don't usually shake hands with men, either.

[Diddle E. Squat]

You said 'thanks' instead of 'thank you'. Are you disrespecting me?

[evets]

He started it!

[cake_crumb]

As you can see by reading the story you posted, your 'Whitney disses Sharon' headline was extremely misleading, because this was not a 'dissing'.

[dead]

Yahoo reported that she refused to shake his hand.

Yahoo's (Reuters actually) been wrong before, but all the people who accussed evets of changing the caption are also wrong.

Personally, I don't really care if Whitney Houston shoved a banana up her nose and hummed "It's raining men" to Sharon, as long as posters correctly attribute the source.

[onedoug]

Stone for looking back at Sodom. Stoned by the looks of these two...uh, three.

[Free ThinkerNY]

The modern Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem, the largest single Black Israelite movement in the world, traces its roots to Chicago and the racially turbulent Sixties, when Ben Carter, a charismatic, black, twenty-six-year-old metal worker claimed he had been visited by the angel Gabriel, who instructed him to deliver his community from bondage and return its citizens to their biblical homeland, Israel, which Carter said was actually Northeast Africa. The African and Native Americans, claimed Carter—who renamed himself Ben Ammi Ben Israel Carter—were God's chosen ones: true descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel, started by Jacob's twelve sons, and therefore natural heirs to the Holy Land and all its riches and history.
With the Vietnam War raging on day after bloody day, race riots still a regular occurrence, and President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society revealed for the idealistic fraud it was, such a notion was not unappealing to some members of middle America's black working class. "America was our Babylon, our place of bondage," Ben Shlomo, jazz musician and the Black Israelites' Community Leader of External Affairs told Adrienne Sanders in a 1997 article for Columbia University's Slant. "Black people in the states are still wandering the desert. They're living with the leftovers of slavery."
There was a precedent for such a movement going back to 1893, when William Saunders Crowdy, a black railroad chef, had a vision from God calling him to lead his people to a "true religion." Crowdy's Church of God and Saints of Christ proliferated under an agenda of black nationalism, traditional Christian practices, and a strong dose of Jewish identification and imagery, the exodus from bondage being a central theme. They were looking for deliverance, and a home.
Similar groups were founded in Virginia (with the congregation of the Temple of the Gospel of the Kingdom relocating to Harlem in 1917), Atlantic City, and, in 1915, Philadelphia. According to The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions, F.S. Cherry, founder of that Philadelphia's Church of God:

taught that God, who is black, originally created black humans, the descendants of Jacob. The first white person, Gehazi, became that way as the result of a curse. The church teaches that Jesus was a black man. Prophet Cherry's followers believe that they are the true Jews and that white Jews are impostors. The church does not use the term synagogue, the place of worship of the white Jews. Cherry read both Hebrew and Yiddish and based his teachings on the Old Testament and the Talmud. The church has a Saturday Sabbath and a liturgical year which focuses on Passover. The church has prohibitions against eating pork, divorce, taking photographs, and observing Christian holidays.
Back in line, we moved away from religion and into hunting, fishing and gardening, the man's favorite pastimes. When he was younger, he would hunt alligators and squirrels. Up in Pennsylvania, he stalked whitetail deer and bears. He had a lodge and liked to go hunting with his sons and grandchildren. Gardening-wise, he made it on television a couple years ago for displaying the largest squash at a fruit and vegetable exhibition. Sometimes he'd comment on the level of voluptuousness of a passing woman—"I'm old but I still love women," he assured me—or field cell-phone calls from excited relatives in the South, always answering the phone, "Mayday, mayday."
The man behind us, distinguished looking enough, kept mostly to himself, cutting in only to ask questions regarding the details of the bus. He looked like he may have been in the military at one point or another, or possibly still was.
We all looked toward the gate when the next potential passenger arrived—an elderly woman, wheeling her small suitcase behind her. The address tag on her bag said Duquesne, describing an old Monongahela Valley steel town. She paused at the front of the line.
"It's all right by us if you stay there," the distinguished looking man said, urging her to remain, the man in the front of the line shifting his things over to make room, inadvertently knocking his straw hat onto the ground. He picked it up.
"I was afraid you guys would beat me up," she said.

Looking for home, the Black Israelites' Carter first led some three hundred followers to the West African bush country in Liberia for what he described as two years of lifestyle-cleansing, intended to rid the group of bad habits like cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol and prepare it for the more natural lifestyle it would be leading. In 1969, the forty strong souls that didn't give up emigrated to the southern Israeli desert town of Dimona, home to a nuclear reactor and little else, gaining entrance with temporary visas. Israel's Chief Rabbinate subsequently charged that the Black Israelites were not technically Jews, and were therefore not entitled to citizenship under the country's Law of Return.
In fact, the Black Israelites are unique unto themselves. The Jewish Virtual Library (JVL) describes their religious and cultural practices as follows:

They live according to their own special rules of conduct. Polygamy is permitted and birth control is forbidden. Their leaders decree who will marry whom, performing the weddings and approving annulments. Their dietary laws prohibit the eating of meat, dairy products, eggs and sugar; members must adopt Hebraic names in place of their former "slave names." According to Black Hebrew custom, the woman's responsibilities focus on childrearing and other family obligations. The Black Hebrew's closed society is isolated from the mainstream and all infractions of their rules are severely punished.
In Israel, the Dimona settlement has grown and even thrived, due in part to its high birthrate and, according to the JVL, "because many of them, some with criminal backgrounds, illegally entered Israel using various forms of subterfuge." The JVL estimates that some 1,250 Black Israelites, still lead by Carter, inhabit the original settlement, and in smaller pockets in Arad and Mitzpe Ramon. According to Sanders, the Dimona Black Israelites have become world famous for their upbeat take on jazz and their New World Choir, which sings its own take on gospel music, eschewing Christ for the prophets, places, and heroes of Israel. Additional revenue is generated by the group's seamsters' workshop and from vegetarian restaurants in Arad and Tel Aviv. The Black Israelites acquired legal residency status in Israel in May 1990, with their temporary residency—their legal right to their home—reviewed periodically.

http://www.newyinzer.com/archive/020828/n-may.html

[Howlin]

I'm thinking it's a "cultural/religion/drug thing"........LOL.

We shall see.

[Lady Eileen]

Black Hebrew Israelites are a Black Supremist group who believe that all White people are spawns of the devil.

I saw these groups "preaching" on the street corners in NYC when I lived there... they are very dangerous.

[dead]

She's out of her friggin' mind. That's all I know.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton

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[evets]

dis - To show disrespect to, often by insult or criticism: “ [The network] is often dissed for going after older, less demographically desirable viewers” (Michael McWilliams).

[African American Vernacular English, short for disrespect.]

Source dictionary.com

That depends on what the meaning of the word 'dis' is.

[Argh]

Some Gentile jokes I got from a Jewish buddy:

All we ever hear are Jewish jokes, so here are some Gentile jokes:

A Gentile goes into a clothing store and says,"This is a very fine jacket. How much is it?" The salesman says, "It's $500." The Gentile says, "OK, I'll take it."

Two Gentiles meet on the street. The first one says,"You own your own business, don't you? How's it going?" The other Gentile says, "Just great! Thanks for asking!"

Two Gentile mothers meet on the street and start talking about children. Gentile mother 1 (said with pride): "My son is a construction worker!" Gentile mother 2 (said with more pride): "My son is a truck driver!"

A man calls his mother and says, "Mother, I know you're expecting me for dinner this evening, but something important has come up and I can't make it." His mother says, "OK."

[cake_crumb]

"Its not that big a deal, just an awkward moment due to simple culture differences. Since customs and affronts for some cultures are being written and rewritten almost daily, these incidents are bound to happen."

ExACTLY

Since I read other versions of this same story early this morning, I knew there was something wrong here.

In fact, one thing I do know for a fact about Whitney is that she's an EXTREMELY neurotic individual. Heck, so is her aunt. And she does have some 'thing' about contamination.

[evets]

Sam Schwartz was driving down the road, and gets pulled over by a Policeman. Walking up to Sam's car, the Policeman says, "Your wife fell out the car 5 miles back." Sam replies, "Thank god for that" I'd thought I'd gone deaf!"

[Howlin]

It's really sad, isn't it?

[Free ThinkerNY]

Houston was also said to be planning a recording about Israel with several members of the community, which is known for its choirs and singing groups, they added.

People are missing the real issue. Houston is promoting this racist cult. She does not know what they are about?

[Howlin]

Wasn't there a thread earlier today about her meeting him in HER BATHROBE?