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A Jew on Mars?
Forward ^ | 03/17/06 | ANTHONY WEISS

Posted on 03/16/2006 1:48:19 PM PST by KevinDavis

When Jason Sherwin told his parents he wanted to be an astronaut, they weren't thrilled. Jews, they reminded him, "don't have a good track record" in outer space.

Notwithstanding the "Jews in Space" bit from Mel Brooks's "History of the World: Part I," they're right.

Arguably, the first Jewish astronaut was Elijah. According to the Bible, "a fiery chariot with fiery horses suddenly appeared... and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind." He didn't come back down.

In modern times, the first Jew in space, Judith Resnick, died in the Challenger explosion of 1986. In 2003, Ilan Ramon of Israel died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up.

(Excerpt) Read more at forward.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronauts; jewpitur; jews; jewsinspace; mars; meshuganaarabs; space
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To: KevinDavis


Daphne Zuniga
in Spaceballs played a Druish
princess . . . Does that count?
21 posted on 03/16/2006 2:03:00 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss

Funny...she doesn't look Druish...


23 posted on 03/16/2006 2:06:04 PM PST by Andonius_99 (They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
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To: KevinDavis

Joooooooooooz on Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarz!!!!!!


24 posted on 03/16/2006 2:07:13 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Alouette
Jews are from Jewpiter, and Muslims are from Uranus. FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list. Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

Yeah, but do you have a "Jews in Space" ping list?

25 posted on 03/16/2006 2:08:36 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A Moose Once Bit my Sister. Yeah. She Turned Moose-lim.)
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To: Alouette

If Jews ever did make it to Mars and colonize it and make it thrive the palis would demand a right of return to Mars.


26 posted on 03/16/2006 2:14:34 PM PST by jslade (Liberalism ALWAYS accomplishes the exact opposite of it's stated intent!)
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To: MNJohnnie

"To boldly go where No Jew has gone before....."
Reminds me of an old Henny Youngman joke: "On our 50th anniversary, I took my wife somewhere she's never been before, the kitchen." drum roll and cymbal...


27 posted on 03/16/2006 2:19:25 PM PST by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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To: jslade
If Jews ever did make it to Mars and colonize it and make it thrive the palis would demand a right of return to Mars.

Right. And the site of the synagogue would be declared a Muslim holy site and a mosque erected on it.

28 posted on 03/16/2006 2:23:01 PM PST by Mogengator
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To: L,TOWM
Two Jewish families I knew-- The Bishops and the Abbotts.

Honest.

29 posted on 03/16/2006 2:25:31 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: duckman
Reminds me of an old Henny Youngman joke: "On our 50th anniversary, I took my wife somewhere she's never been before, the kitchen." drum roll and cymbal...

IIRC, he also said "I got into a cab in my town and asked the driver to take me where the action is. He took me to my house." No wait, that was Dangerfield...

30 posted on 03/16/2006 2:25:39 PM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: Mogengator

Also, their right of return to Mars would have to be financed by a third party.


31 posted on 03/16/2006 2:25:41 PM PST by jslade (Liberalism ALWAYS accomplishes the exact opposite of it's stated intent!)
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To: Alouette
"Jews are from Jewpiter, and Muslims are from Uranus."

~~~Snicker~~~! ;0)

32 posted on 03/16/2006 2:29:54 PM PST by Theresawithanh (Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.)
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To: KevinDavis

How long till the Palestinians claim that their interplanetary land is being illegally occupied by the Jooos?


33 posted on 03/16/2006 2:30:03 PM PST by EricT. ("I reject your reality and substitute my own."-Adam Savage)
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To: stevio

Not sure what you mean. Eliyahu never died. We put a cup of wine out for him every Pesach. He will annoint the Mashiach.


34 posted on 03/16/2006 2:31:45 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl (OMGIIHIHOIIC ping list)
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To: Alouette; the-ironically-named-proverbs2; Jeremiah Jr; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; dighton
A Jew on Mars?

Columbia Hills named as memorial on Mars
Seven peaks near Spirit site honor seven astronauts

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4143223/


35 posted on 03/16/2006 2:35:01 PM PST by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)
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To: L,TOWM
When did "Christian" become a Jewish family-name?

When George Christian converted and married Sadie Levine. 8>)

Actually, there is a tendency for Jews named Cohen to take a more Anglo last name, often beginning with "Ch." I knew a Cohen, whose last name had been Anglicized to "Chester." I don't know of any Jews who've had the Chutzpah to use "Christian," as their last name, but you never know.

36 posted on 03/16/2006 2:47:55 PM PST by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: Pheadra

Wait now the nut job that runs Iran will demand all the Jews be moved to Mars! Ixnay on the spaceay!


37 posted on 03/16/2006 2:51:30 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Are you not entertained? Are you NOT entertained? Is this not what you came here for?)
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To: KevinDavis
We're Jews out in space We're zooming along Protecting the Hebrew race We're Jews out in space If trouble appears We'll put it right back in its place When Goyim attack us We'll give 'em a smack We'll slap 'em right back in the the face We're Jews out in space We're zooming along Protecting the Hebrew race! (Mel Brooks, History of the World, Part 1)
38 posted on 03/16/2006 2:51:53 PM PST by Vaquero (time again for the Crusades.)
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Seven peaks near Spirit site honor seven astronauts

Who knew they were all related? Must have been a sad day in the Hill family.

39 posted on 03/16/2006 2:58:22 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: KevinDavis

If you get a chance, read the new book by Mike Mullane, one of the TFNG shuttle astronauts. Lots of stuff about Judith Resnik and how good of an astronaut she was.


40 posted on 03/16/2006 3:02:02 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (In your heart, you know I'm right.)
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