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Ok, hilarity: Supernatural Fangirl Experience! I'm a little biased, since these are my friends, but SERIOUSLY? Don't you want to listen to livejournal broadcast on your iPod? You know you really DO. Look out for my guest appearance soon! (Yes, seriously, you're excited, right?) Ok, the musical outtakes like a morning radio show are KILLING ME HAHAHAHAH Oh, guys, guys, love. XO Don't listen to it without headphones unless you live in a bordello.
Now for something completely different!
Who's a Jew?
Yeah, well. This was bound to happen without civil marriage and the near theocracy in Israel. The problem is letting the fundamentalists set the agenda when mainstream jews outnumber them so much. They have a bunker mentality and dislike assimilation, but who gets to define someone's identity for them? I suppose this is just going to divide Israeli/non-Israeli jews further. Also, this is just the latest round of "assimilation means not being jewish" that's been going on for, what, a couple thousand years? This article is so depressing to me. For a host of reasons, but to begin with how "Jewish experience" is always shorthand for "Eastern Euro Jewish experience." Blah, whatever.
Now for something completely different!
Who's a Jew?
Yeah, well. This was bound to happen without civil marriage and the near theocracy in Israel. The problem is letting the fundamentalists set the agenda when mainstream jews outnumber them so much. They have a bunker mentality and dislike assimilation, but who gets to define someone's identity for them? I suppose this is just going to divide Israeli/non-Israeli jews further. Also, this is just the latest round of "assimilation means not being jewish" that's been going on for, what, a couple thousand years? This article is so depressing to me. For a host of reasons, but to begin with how "Jewish experience" is always shorthand for "Eastern Euro Jewish experience." Blah, whatever.