Happy Channukah

[redbreegull]

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[redbreegull]

happy first night of channukah netphoria. this is the last time that the first day of channukah and Thanksgiving will fall on the same day for 79,000 years.


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[Trotskilicious]

do you look jewish i'm really interested in who looks like a jew

[noyen]

fuck this shit.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

do you look jewish i'm really interested in who looks like a jew

my features are stereotypically atheist

[Trotskilicious]

so white middle class anglo saxon

[Order 66]

huge day for the guttenbergs

[redbreegull]

don't be ignorant, by percentage the US has less atheists than even most south american countries

[Trotskilicious]

i am incredibly ignorant by gum it's my right as an american

[pavementtune]

How many atheists/agnostics with a Jewish family background does this board even have? I'm aware of 4. Not enough to compare faces, is it?

[Trotskilicious]

who are they then

[Trotskilicious]

i am incredibly ignorant

[redbreegull]

NY Times – Poll shows major shift in identity of U.S. Jews

by the time my parents generation die out, there will be virtually no religious Jews in the United States.

[Trotskilicious]

i was actually thinking of how many athiest jews there are in comedy like john stewart and david cross

and you know what omega concern says, where there's one jew there's a LOT OF JEWS

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

and you know what omega concern says, where there's one jew there's a LOT OF JEWS

so be sure to check for secret compartments and under floorboards

[Trotskilicious]

and in the goddamn attic, they cluster up there like cobwebs

[redbreegull]

the global Jewish population today has recovered to the point that it was at pre-Holocaust and is now stagnant. what significance is there in 15 million, Omega Concern?

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

NY Times – Poll shows major shift in identity of U.S. Jews

by the time my parents generation die out, there will be virtually no religious Jews in the United States.

there are still jewish neighborhoods where i live. there's a place in west boca i affectionately call jewtopia. orthodox peeps. well, there's a few like that, but one place in particular i'm thinking of. if you drive through there on a saturday you will get disapproving stares.

my mom was raised orthodox and my dad was reform, my sister and i are both atheists (i think she is anyway), and we were raised non-religious - we went to lots of bar and bat mitzvahs but that's pretty much it. we didn't have bat mitzvahs, and were not asked if we wanted them. my mom is actually a christian now, i think. pretty sure she's the only believer in my family. my aunt (her sister) is also athiest. i dont know if my dad even thinks about these types of things.

[redbreegull]

no dinners, my mom and dad are ultra reform. We lit some candles but only because I wanted to, we haven't really done it since I was a kid. I went to Israel last summer and have kind of become more interested in Judaism, but just from a historical/anthropological perspective. I doubt I will ever believe in God

[pavementtune]

Some candles? One tonight, second one tomorrow, you mean that?
Have you been in Tel Aviv, too?

[reprise85]

we did do the candle lighting when i was a kid, just when i was in elementary school though

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

Some candles? One tonight, second one tomorrow, you mean that?
Have you been in Tel Aviv, too?

a Chanukah menorah usually has 9 candles. on the first night, the shamash (the highest candle) is lit, and then it is used to light the candle on the extreme right to signify the first day. On the second night, the shamash is lit and then the two right most candles are lit to signify the second day, and so on.

http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/4...y-menorah.html

[slunken]

Ask Moses lololol

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

a Chanukah menorah usually has 9 candles. on the first night, the shamash (the highest candle) is lit, and then it is used to light the candle on the extreme right to signify the first day. On the second night, the shamash is lit and then the two right most candles are lit to signify the second day, and so on.

http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/4...y-menorah.html

pretty sure she knew this?

[pavementtune]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

a Chanukah menorah usually has 9 candles. on the first night, the shamash (the highest candle) is lit, and then it is used to light the candle on the extreme right to signify the first day. On the second night, the shamash is lit and then the two right most candles are lit to signify the second day, and so on.

http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/4...y-menorah.html

Um. Someone tell askmoses that you don't call anything with 8 or 9 arms a menorah.
As far as I know the traditions in which order you lit - left to right, right to left - vary. I think in France they do it left to right, I know it only right to left. But let's not get into Judaism, poor Toc.

And I believe Berlin owns the ugliest ever - that thing is 10 m.

http://p5.focus.de/img/fotos/origs34...-large-4-3.jpg

[Trotskilicious]

berlin has to make theirs the biggest and ugliest menorah to show how sorry they are

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

Did you have board game evenings, too? Eat Slatkes (that flat potatoe thing)?

board game evenings... i don't think so. i mean we played board games sometimes i guess but my sister is a sore loser and always quit after i started kicking her ass so basically all the time

latkes, yes. potato pancakes are awesome, my mom is making them tomorrow. she basicaslly makes them any time she hosts dinner... which i guess is just thanksgiving these days. last year i went there on christmas and we ate ham and bacon. think we broke about 100 jewish laws that day. i probably had milk, too.

[reprise85]

also pretty sure we lit the menorah left to right but i dont remember also there are electric menorahs

[reprise85]

nice

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

Um. Someone tell askmoses that you don't call anything with 8 or 9 arms a menorah.

what do you call it then? it's a menorah. I'm not sure if I am too drunk to understand what you are saying or if you are being stupid

Wikipedia – Chanukah Menorah