The more I thought about all this, the more it disturbed me. For what am I if not a Hellenized Jew? (O.K., an Americanized Jew, but what’s the difference, really?) I eat pork every so often. Before having children, my wife and I agonized over the question of circumcision. And while I’ve never offered burned sacrifices to Zeus, I do go to yoga occasionally. When it comes down to it, it’s pretty clear that the Maccabees would have hated me. They would have hated me because I’m assimilated and because I’m the product of intermarriage. And while I can’t say for certain what the Maccabees would have thought about my fondness for Bernie Sanders or my practice of Reconstructionist Judaism, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have liked those things either.
A Response To “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah” From The New York Times
DEC 6, 2018
I read Michael David Lukas’s article in the New York Times, The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah (1 Dec) with a sense of sadness for him.
Sadness that he considers Jews fighting for the right to live their lives in their own traditions, some kind of “religious fundamentalism.”
Sadness that he defines true Jewish heroes of history as nothing more than a “group of violent fundamentalists.”
Sadness that while proud Jews sing songs about our heroic Maccabees, he’ll be saying a prayer for those Jews who fought against our traditions, against our way of life, and quite frankly against our very future.
NYT Criticized for Running “Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah” Op-Ed (2020)
The author of the piece, Sarah Prager, wrote that Hanukkah was the only Jewish holiday she celebrated with her family growing up, as they mostly celebrated secular holidays otherwise. Prager wrote that her family’s Hanukkah celebrations always seemed “forced” and once she and her sister went to college, her family stopped celebrating Hanukkah altogether. When Prager married her wife (who was raised Catholic but doesn’t really identify with any religion), they decided to raise their children with only secular holidays.
American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris tweeted that the Prager op-ed was “bizarre” and noted that in 2018 the Times ran an op-ed called “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah.”
“Is this the paper’s skepticism about all faiths & their holidays?” Harris asked. “Or is it solely reserved for Jewish holidays?”
Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor for The Forward, tweeted, “Truly impossible to imagine @nytopinion allowing a random white person to appropriate the religion of any other minority – and purely for the purpose of discarding it. Gross – and revealing – on so many levels.”
Joshua Leifer, assistant editor at Jewish Currents, defended Prager in a tweet. “If a personal essay about losing connection to ritual is scandalous to you, then you are extremely out of touch with the conversations many young American Jews are having about the place of ritual and religion in their lives,” he wrote.
Ну таки этот Лукас прав. Он согласен с равом Кахане. Надо спокойно признать, что большинство тех кто по последним переписям относил себя к евреям в США таковыми не являются и для них это ничего не значит, или почти ничего. Некоторым окружающие напомнят и вернут к корням по германскому образцу. Некоторые, увы потеряны. Ну а кому нужно чтобы полмиллиона реформистов приехали сюда? Ни им, к счастью, ни уж точно нам не нужно. Люди которые ненавидят Америку (настоящую, отцов-основателей) и христиан за то, что они слишком еврейские и слишком произраильские - ну какие они евреи?
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Как то она особенно в ударе на этот раз 🙂 Меир Кахане о Хануке с позиций социал-либералов
The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah
Michael David Lukashttps://www.almendron.com/tribuna/the-hypocrisy-of-hanukkah/
A Response To “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah” From The New York Times
DEC 6, 2018I read Michael David Lukas’s article in the New York Times, The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah (1 Dec) with a sense of sadness for him.
Sadness that he considers Jews fighting for the right to live their lives in their own traditions, some kind of “religious fundamentalism.”
Sadness that he defines true Jewish heroes of history as nothing more than a “group of violent fundamentalists.”
Sadness that while proud Jews sing songs about our heroic Maccabees, he’ll be saying a prayer for those Jews who fought against our traditions, against our way of life, and quite frankly against our very future.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-response-to-the-hypocrisy-of-hanukkah-from-the-new-york-times/
NYT Criticized for Running “Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah” Op-Ed (2020)
The author of the piece, Sarah Prager, wrote that Hanukkah was the only Jewish holiday she celebrated with her family growing up, as they mostly celebrated secular holidays otherwise. Prager wrote that her family’s Hanukkah celebrations always seemed “forced” and once she and her sister went to college, her family stopped celebrating Hanukkah altogether. When Prager married her wife (who was raised Catholic but doesn’t really identify with any religion), they decided to raise their children with only secular holidays.
American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris tweeted that the Prager op-ed was “bizarre” and noted that in 2018 the Times ran an op-ed called “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah.”
“Is this the paper’s skepticism about all faiths & their holidays?” Harris asked. “Or is it solely reserved for Jewish holidays?”
Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor for The Forward, tweeted, “Truly impossible to imagine @nytopinion allowing a random white person to appropriate the religion of any other minority – and purely for the purpose of discarding it. Gross – and revealing – on so many levels.”
Joshua Leifer, assistant editor at Jewish Currents, defended Prager in a tweet. “If a personal essay about losing connection to ritual is scandalous to you, then you are extremely out of touch with the conversations many young American Jews are having about the place of ritual and religion in their lives,” he wrote.
Ну таки этот Лукас прав. Он согласен с равом Кахане. Надо спокойно признать, что большинство тех кто по последним переписям относил себя к евреям в США таковыми не являются и для них это ничего не значит, или почти ничего. Некоторым окружающие напомнят и вернут к корням по германскому образцу. Некоторые, увы потеряны. Ну а кому нужно чтобы полмиллиона реформистов приехали сюда? Ни им, к счастью, ни уж точно нам не нужно. Люди которые ненавидят Америку (настоящую, отцов-основателей) и христиан за то, что они слишком еврейские и слишком произраильские - ну какие они евреи?