Fried Potatoes Are Deadly, New York Times Warns as Hanukkah Nears
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The New York Times and Hanukkah=American Jewrys Hanukkah Hypocrisy?
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.
No mention of God or miracles or faith. Lost opportunity.
Imperfection framed as hypocrisy. This sounds like typical anti-religious tripe.
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!
Deadly or not I’m fixing some of those latkes—and more than I think I want.
I want my Hamantashen. Poppy seed
Do they have anything to do with Hanukkah? Probably not, but I love them.
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
Heresies! My Jewish part of the family (1/4) celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah.
Pretty soon the Lion will lay with the lamb.
Who knew besides Isaiah?
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