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Posted in: Montreal JCC to open on Saturdays
08/14/09 01:33 PM
I agree with you, Rabbi Aryeh, but I believe you lost a teaching moment. Mussa (Arabic for Moshe, which is Hebrew for Moses), the Shabbat is a festive day, as you acknowledge, but it is also a day on which observant Jews refrain from mundane, weekday activities. The restaurant would be closed because commerce does not take place on Shabbat. That's also why the Y will not be handling money. The Y should remain closed. I can see no reason for it to be open. Even if the opening is mission driven it's still, in the end, about money.
Posted in: U.S. vigils remember slain gay Israelis
08/04/09 02:02 PM
I'd ask Steven who you were, Ross, but I haven't seen him since I stopped eating at The Milky Way, which was owned by his mother and stepfather. Furthermore, I don't much care who you are. I do, however, care very much that you have sullied the useless deaths of two young people with your vile ignorance. As to you, Cheryl, my earnest advice is to please speak nicely or stay silent. Come to think of it, that also applies to you, Ross. Kindest regards to both of you, Rabbi Arie Chark
Posted in: Mideast question removed from Canadian exam
06/25/09 04:27 PM
Rabbi Chark is a Canadian. And unlike Mr Rodgers I do not need to make sweeping generalisations about Americans and the way they are educated. I have lived in Morristown (NJ), New York City, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. I have travelled to 15 of the 50 States and DC, most recently last summer, and have been to every Canadian province except Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. I wonder if you can tell me the capital of any Canadian province or of Canada itself, Mr Rodgers? Are are you soooo stupid that you can't possibly even pass a basic test in US civics? Let me point out a few facts: No one in this country is denied medical treatment because they can't pay. We have had a black, female Head of State since 2005. Ms Jean is the third female of our last five Governors-General. Four of the last six GGs have been ethnic: German, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Haitian. The Rt Hon Herb Gray was the first Jewish prime minister of Canada,albeit as Acting PM while the Liberal Party was electing a new leader. A Canadian without a bank account is almost unheard of, though of course people do fall through the cracks Almost 50% of Canadians have a passport. Speaking of banks, not a single Canadian bank failed during the economic meltdown last year. I guess that's because Canadians are sooo stupid we didn't evolve to the point of becoming unregulated capitalist robber-barons. Reb A.
Posted in: National Jewish burial society tries to stem increased cremation
06/12/09 12:36 PM
It is not the cost of the coffin so much as the cost of the land associated with the burial that causes issues. Furthemore, synagogues who serve larger segment of the general Jewish community, often charge higher fees for non-members or for members who are delinquent on their various fees. I wish Mr Poppers' assertion was correct. Simple wooden caskets are *not* the norm except among *informed* members of Orthodox communities, whose number is quite small in relation to the size of the overall Jewish community of America. There are any number of nominally Orthodox who get buried in expensive coffins and the number is even higher for unobservant Jews. There is no prohibition whatever to the type of coffin one is buried in, contrary to popular Orthodox belief. I would additionally urge Mr Poppers to be much less smug. His opinion isn't that humble. Reb Arie
Posted in: Obama in Cairo: See conflict through eyes of the other
06/04/09 12:52 PM
I would ask American conservative Christians to please leave our media alone. Being an activist I am easy to mistake for a liberal, which I am most assuredly not. I am a confirmed centrist that skews left on social issues but skews right on legal,moral,ethical, and religious ones. I am the av bet din "presiding judge" of a nascent beth din in Ottawa, where I am a rabbi. Those who use "Hussein" as an insult don't know either Hebrew or Arabic. In Hebrew *Khosn* means "vigor" or "robust" and this root also informs, eventually, *khoshn* "breatsplate". A major section of Jewish law is called *Khoshn Mishpat* "The Breastplate of Judgement". *Barack*, of course, means "blessing". What's to insult?
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