jewish silentbob "I am not, nor have i ever been jewish" i am going to remake the movie mumford only make it about a rabbi 020501 ... Arwyn I wanna be jewish 020501 ... bethany is 020501 ... Tildan is 020501 ... hellel ben sahar i've got security_bagels everytime i leave the house they change the lox (i was born fifty years too late, i always wanted to be a comedian playing one of the resorts in the Catskills, but i don't think obscure surrealist comedy would have flown too well back in the 50's) i freaked out my co-workers at my previous job a couple of years ago by playing a tape of that song from South Park "It's hard to be a Jew at Christmas" for the benefit of a couple of clueless rednecks (good republicans and faithful TBN viewers as evinced by the bumperstickers on their cars) who kept asking questions too stupid for me to remember now about the meaning and significance of Chanukkah 020501 ... nocturnal I must be. my mother's maiden name is Liebman, but she's catholic. all my female friends and a lot of my male friends are jewish, at least at school. if I believed in god, I'd definitely be jewish. 020501 ... "Ancient Pagan" How could you not believe in God, the Gods, the Cosmic Spirit Cycle (Buddhist) and the like? I am no monotheist but I certainly respect Judaism. Their Tanakh has a venerable history and is filled with great wisdom. They were the original believers in the Abrahamic God and if you study Christianity you will find it uncomfortably similar to the Pagan Mystery Cults of the Roman Empire. Those cults also had mythologies of saviours and virgin births. (This is all no reason to doubt Christianity but to explore your faith background.) You will see that it takes greater faith to be an atheist than a religionist or spiritual type. You must critically examine all the arguments for and against God(s). You will find that God(s) are blameless when it comes to the sufferings of the world. Why? Because humans have free will and they, with misguidance, might become cruel. Philosophy, study and meditation are humanity's best defenses against committing wickedness. Why? Because these gifts attenuate love and wisdom! Pax Dei Tecum! 020503 ... satin doll I'm jewish, man I could i eat a matzah ball as big as my head right now...and what i wouldn't do for some kanish.. 020504 ... hellel ben sahar Knish? Gevalt! here we go again! 020505 ... tourist The chosen people Trying to involve the whole planet in the ancient tribal conflict Sheez 020506 ... hellel ben sahar it isn't all of us. i'm of the Rodney King opinion on that one... "can't we alll just get along?" 020506 ... phil and in the beginning, man was blind. (can't explain why it fits in here) 020507 ... tourist No doubt, family history Of that length Is both a comfort and a pain Tiny world Short lives Yes Rodney That is truly my hope also Shalom Alah Akbar Domimos Vobiscum Call it what you like Divinity is above all the Hatred 020507 ... white_wave security_bagels LOL! 040305 ... magicforest shema israel adonai elohenu adonai echad dons her kippah and talit 040306 ... nom england 1500's 040307 ... Nomo I am. Is, Will be. Never was. I like the matza ball comment. I bet i could eat bigger, though. Being Jewish is like winning money - you are somewhat stunned at the result, and are unsure of the future. What you do know is that it's a good thing. 060423 ... yahooey if you feel jewish and you think you wanna be jewish and you think you are jewish then you are. simple. what happened to the widespread agreement about the first amendment and "FREEDOM OF RELIGION"??? 070203 ... jane judaism itself pre-dates the amendments. sure you should be allowed to convert but remember that it is a race, a culture, in addition to being a religion. my father is jewish & my mother was raised mexican catholic. e calls me a jewxican. i call myself half jewish. i was raised with a general sense of religion but nothing was forced upon me. 070203 ... Ouroboros i think the main thing i got from being raised jewish is an unshakable sense of morals 070203 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I used to think I was born to the wrong part of the family. I wanted to be Jewish because I believed in the anticipatory joy of the minor scale. Waiting rather than fulfillment. Dancing to klezmer music live in the Pine Beach pavilion, twelve years old, and those were the ideas and stereotypes in my head: the major-key triumphalism of "Joy to the World" was trying to hard to be happy. It pounded you over the head with happiness, making you unhappy. And there is always too much Christmas. A little Christmas goes a long way. (I also thought they had better holidays.) I don't know why this is in my head now. By the time I was thirteen I thought the double harmonic scale was the sexiest, but I had no similar lust to become Muslim, because of Islam's unfamiliarity and my cowardly fear of being persecuted. And by the time I was nineteen and in love with Philip Glass, I thought it too much trouble to become Jewish and Buddhist at once. But I should be pagan, I am thinking now, because it is a wide term and encompasses much music. Not MuchMusic, mind you. But I think the stars, under my symbol of the twin dragons, fate me to remain agnostically Presbyterian. (Though I fear and dislike the idea of predestination both in its religious and scientific incarnations, I like the idea of dialogue and consensus in the word presbyterian. It makes me want to bring to meetings jelly-filled hamentaschen, and present them as an apology to the stars.) 131018 ... e_o_i spell check ("too hard to be happy" not "to hard to be happy" - silly e_o_i.) 131018 what's it to you? who go blather from