8/9/2007

8 Responses to “[Sigh]”

1. It might seem silly to us as outsiders, but two people is simply too small a sample from which to draw any conclusions. Obviously their personal animosity outweighed any religious or cultural concerns they might have had.

   Dana (3e4784) — 8/10/2007 @ 3:33 am

   
   

2. Sexual frustration. It would have meant the death penalty for any Muslim woman to have anything to do with them.

   nk (48899d) — 8/10/2007 @ 3:41 am

   
   

3. Whiskey’s kosher?

   Scott Jacobs (90eabe) — 8/10/2007 @ 5:29 am

   
   

4. they need eight more men for a minyan.

   assistant devil's advocate (e39def) — 8/10/2007 @ 6:54 am

   
   

5. Isn’t this the setup of a old joke?

   Robin Roberts (6c18fd) — 8/10/2007 @ 7:30 am

   
   

6. Whiskey’s kosher?
   As long as it’s not aged in barrels previously used to produce non-kosher wine, apparently so.

   Dana:
   I’d actually take this from another angle, myself. It shows how small isolated groups with strong internal problems can wind up in turmoil if there is no internal or external buffer for those issues. Sort of like how you may know someone whose company you can enjoy when in a large group, but one-on-one is unbearable.

   Rick Wilcox (71646f) — 8/10/2007 @ 11:56 am

   
   

7. Robin Roberts –

   That was my feeling. Two Jews walk in to a Taliban revival meeting, and one says to the other…

   Justin Levine (20f2b5) — 8/10/2007 @ 12:05 pm

   
   

8. Two old jokes:
   1)A Jew marooned on a desert island is finally rescued, and shows off what he built for himself during the years alone. “Here is the synagogue I built for myself. And there is the other synagogue I built when I had an argument with myself over who should get the first aliyah.”

   2)Two Jews, three synagogues. Three Jews, five synagogues. Four Jews, seven synagogues. Five Jews, a community center.

   And, yes, Scott, whiskey is kosher, as well as almost all other alchoholic beverages. (Beer and malt beverages can be kosher, but are not kosher for Passover.) Old men shlugging a bissle shnapps at the Saturday morning kiddush after services is an old and enduring scene. The synagogue I attend sets at least two bottles of peppermint shnapps along with the wine every week.

   More seriously, I suspect the fact that they were old men forced to live together was the basic cause of the problem. Note that Mr. Simantov is by his neighbor’s description, and his apparent lack of desire to rejoin his family, apparently not the friendliest of men. (His name, btw, is mildly ironic: it means “good omen”.)

   kishnevi (8731ef) — 8/10/2007 @ 1:25 pm