April 22nd, 2024 at 12:37 PM ^
Indeed. I've been the only gentile in the car more than once.
April 22nd, 2024 at 12:37 PM ^
Making a brisket tonight!
And I’ll be deep in the cold cold ground before drinking Maneschewitz ever again. If I want something that sweet, I’ll chug some grape juice and take a shot afterwards.
April 22nd, 2024 at 12:39 PM ^
blessings to our jewish brothers and sisters, especially in light of recent events.
April 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 PM ^
Let's hope those of the Jewish faith do not experience any violence on this High Holy Days.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nyu-michigan-launch-gaza-encampments-161902051.html
In Ann Arbor, University of Michigan students also erected their own Gaza protest encampment, also to demand university divestment from arms manufacturers. Students set up tents in the large central campus space known as the Diag and declared a “Liberated Zone” for protesters. Photo and video from the scene showed a relatively calm environment in the early hours of the protest on Monday morning.
I agree with you, but the article specifically mentions that no violence has happened associated with the protests. Why the hand wringing? No need to associate protests with violence.
Because all across the country that has NOT been the case. A Jewish girl/reporter at Columbia was stabbed in the eye for being jewish.
I would highly recommend looking into the "stabbing" a bit further. It has been WAY overblown. Today she complained of "eye pressure and a headache" from the flag that poked her in the eye. There is video and it appears inadvertent. We don't need more sensationalism, things suck as they are. Her quote "One of the students, whose face was covered in a keffiyeh, took a Palestinian flag that he was holding, waved it in my face and hit my left eye," Tartak said. Saying she was "stabbed in the eye" sans context is disingenuous and alarmist, as was the post I initially responded to. Try looking at more than headlines.
April 22nd, 2024 at 12:44 PM ^
Also 100% Gentile, although some New Testament scholars might consider believers in Jesus to be "Jews inwardly", Ro 2.29.
At any rate, Mazel tov!
April 22nd, 2024 at 12:53 PM ^
Thanks for this!
It is not easy being an American Jew - with two kids at the University of Michigan - these days.
Sad about the situation in Israel.
Sad about the proliferation of anti-Semitism.
Sad about what's happening on some of our college campuses.
Sad also for the innocent Palestinian people in Gaza.
I think what's being lost in today's discourse is that multiple things can be true at the same time. I am a proud Jew and Zionist...who is also opposed to the current Israeli government/leadership...while still hoping that somehow Hamas can be eradicated which would lead to a better situation for the Palestinian and Israeli citizens.
On a positive note, my brisket this year is A++++. Tender and tasty.
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I pray for the day that Israel could lay down its arms and defenses and be allowed to exist in peace.
Thank you for articulating what I think and feel every day. I want peace for the region and for everyone to be able to live in safety without the worry of war, violence, rockets, suicide bombers, poverty, or hunger.
You forgot illegal settlements.
Thank you for this. If our leadership could only come across so thoughtful and balanced...
I was very worried after Iran and Israel traded salvos, but it appears that both sides are claiming victory and backing down. I’ll keep praying for peace and hoping people in charge of things realize how much better the world can be when we direct our energies towards positive actions instead of destructive ones.
Just putting it out there that it means A LOT these days hearing friendly sentiments from our non-Jewish brothers and sisters. Thank you for the Happy Passover and thank you for the more global sentiment.
This gentile supports our Jewish friends and the state of Israel. Hopefully the destruction of Hamas will lead to a long peace for the people of Gaza and Israel. Happy Passover! Weird that it comes a few weeks after Easter--they usually fall on the same weekend.
Happy Passover. My copious Hebrew tattoos hopefully convey this gentile's feelings towards our Jewish brothers and sisters.
Chag Pesach sameach!
Interesting, I thought Passover and Easter typically tracked each other pretty closely. The one Seder I went to while I was a student was during Holy Week, and the next year I didn't end up going because it was on Good Friday (so not much point since I couldn't eat meat). Don't think I realized they could be this far apart...
Jewish holidays move around a lot on the calendar, as they are tied to the Hebrew calendar...which doesn't coincide with the "regular" calendar.
For example, Hanukkah typically falls anywhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
They usually do track closely together (about 80% of the time) - it has to do something about the slight differences in lunar and Jewish calendars this year and the first Sunday (Easter) after the March lunar moon.
That makes sense. I get differences between Hanukkah and Christmas (especially since Christmas is a fixed date), but given that originally Easter was the Sunday after Passover, and that it always seemed to line up that way (at least when I was paying attention), I assumed the Church used the same method to calculate the date for Easter that the Jewish calendar uses for Passover...
They are both tied to a full moon so Easter either comes right after Passover or they are a month apart.
They are typically close.
Passover goes according to the Jewish Calendar, which is also a lunar calendar, so its months begin based on the cycle of the moon. Easter is based on the Spring Equinox. This year was one of those years where there is a gap in weeks between both observances.
To be precise: Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full moon after the Spring Equinox. In 2024 the Spring Equinox was on March 19, the next full moon was March 25th and the next Sunday was March 31st.
Happiness to all people, too. But, yes Passover is a special day. Also 100% Gentile but having worked 35 years at Dow Chemical before retiring during the Magical Michigan Season #1 (2021), I had a lot of respect for great colleagues of all backgrounds and faiths. Most people are genuinely good, but the loud and angry few are making the world uglier than it has to be. To paraphrase Michael Conrad's Hill Street Blues character - let's be KIND out there!
Go Blue!
Where's you messiah...NOW!?
Thank you all for your thoughts and sentiments. Yes, these are dark times and Passover is the story of overcoming obstacles. We will all prevail if we choose to be the very best version of ourselves each and every day. Alright, I’m cooking for 40 so it’s time to leave MGOBLOG so I can start swearing again
Thank you all for the well wishes. Peace in the Mideast one can dream.
Thank you, WCB --- and everyone.
This is a pretty trying time: about 77 years ago, my family was involved in shipping "items" (illegally, of course) to a tiny little place on the globe so that this tiny little place could defend itself against what was understood to be coming. 77 years later? We've got more scheiss.
Repeat: thank you, WCB - and everyone. Your understanding and good wishes mean more than you can imagine!
My father-in-law, after growing up with lonnnng Passovers he wasn't fond of, always started ours with his first question: "How long's this gonna take?"
Oh my gosh, that's funny.
Chag Sameach!!
Thank you one and all, and chag sameach. "Let my people go" will have a special poignance this year. Let us hope for peace for all peoples of the world.
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Happy passover!
Leave the door open for Elijah and leave some haroset for ol’ S.D. Goy.
I am NOT drinking any manischewitz. That stuff is sugarjuice. I did however spend a lot of time with my 10yo writing a PowerPoint Haggadah.
I can't stand it. I stole a bottle from a seder at Hillel one year and a few nights later when all my friends were drinking 40's and I couldn't partake. Then I remembered the bottle from Hillel and drank it all Needless to say, I got sick and can't stand the taste of it anymore.
You guys made me eat that gifilte fish nonsense. So you should drink that sugar juice! Ha
Gefilte fish -- it's like they trick you into thinking they're matzoh balls. Well, I'm not going to fall for it!
Anybody else remember the April Fools broadcast on, I believe, CBS, that reported on the mysterious disappearance of all the gefilte fish from the NY waters? 😉
Chag Pesach sameach to all my fellow Red Sea pedestrians. Next year in Jerusalem!
I’ve been to Jerusalem a couple times. Truly a magical place!
Happy Passover! Please know many non-Jewish citizens are alarmed and outraged at the upsurge in anti-semitism. We cannot allow for this to continue. Here's to peace in the near future!
Mazel tov!
“Next year in Jerusalem” is sort of the religious equivalent of “we’ll get them next year” in sports - and then this year we finally got them! So maybe next year I’ll be breaking the afikomen in Jerusalem.
April 22nd, 2024 at 11:25 PM ^
Happy Passover!
Free Palestine!
I'm really glad i see so people in this thread who understand both.