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Two words: Zoe Kaplowitz

jollyroger — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:10:23 +0000

In reply to I count myself a hopeless

Two words: Zoe Kaplowitz

I count myself a hopeless

jollyroger — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:05:28 +0000

In reply to The race is over Columbus Day

I count myself a hopeless slug 4 never running one.

So the blonde is training

jollyroger — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:02:13 +0000

In reply to The race is over Columbus Day

So the blonde is training here in Brooklyn? I'll keep an eye out for..um, never mind...

The race is over Columbus Day

Bruce Levine — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:03:43 +0000

In reply to Back at ya, and those three

The race is over Columbus Day weekend. Thanks!

It's on Columbus Day weekend.

Bruce Levine — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:03:13 +0000

In reply to Back at ya, and those three

It's on Columbus Day weekend.

Back at ya, and those three

jollyroger — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:21:32 +0000

In reply to Good for you JR. All the

Back at ya, and those three great kids. (How'd the marathon go?)

Good for you JR. All the

Bruce Levine — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:18:56 +0000

In reply to Happy New Year, Bruce. The

Good for you JR. All the best.

Happy New Year, Bruce. The

jollyroger — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:15:12 +0000

In reply to JR, I love reading your

Happy New Year, Bruce. The film is not out yet, but the producers do not seem of obviously biased origin. There ARE checkpoints. There ARE embargoed items.

Re:tribal identity.

I prefer to be rootless cosmopolitan...I believe the arc of human progress historically has been to associate oneself with ever larger groupings (tribe-village-county-nation-world) of humanity, and that what separates us from the humanity of all others is a defect in our consciousness.

I am so anti-tribal, that I consider it an obvious way to condemn patriotism, which I find odious as well.

When obliged to fill out a form calling for an entry under "race", it is my conceit to enter "human"

PS Dinner at my sister's Thursday, my cousin's ("they follow the holidays are weekend things" rule) Saturday.

David, I make no apologies

Bruce Levine — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:53:24 +0000

In reply to Bruce, You are not

David,

I make no apologies for being obsessive about things Jewish. I'm a Jew, proud of it, and choose to define what that means without regard to your list of who is a good Jew and who is a bad Jew.

Indeed I am a member of the tribe--as were my parents, grandparents, great-great grandparents, and as was my great-great-great-great grandfather, whose grave I was able to locate in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Safed in 2005. That Jewish cemetery David is over 2,000 years old and it sits in the northern mountains of what is now once again the Land of Israel. My great-great-great-great grandfather emigrated to Safed because it is where he wished to be buried--with his People and in his homeland. He died in the land of our ancestors in 1860. And his ancestors were Jewish too, and most of his and my descendants were murdered in the 20th century, in the Diaspora where they were always despised and othered.

So, yes, that explains my obsession David. The real question is what explains yours?

Bruce

Bruce, You are not

David Seaton — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:10:54 +0000

In reply to JR, I love reading your

Bruce,

You are not hysterical, you are only a bit obsessive in your endless hasbarah, that is all.