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AddReply(251995,"Thanksgiving","Nira","settlement W.Bank","11/26/07","Correction: B\"H means Baruch Hashem. And, allavie, that as many American Jews that celebrate Thanksgiving would celebrate all of the Jewish holidays (including Shabbat).");
AddReply(251847,"This blog","Michaela","Jerusalem","11/26/07","This blog is so funny sometimes-it gives me my laugh of the day. Also, it has never really been proven that Columbus was Jewish!!");
AddReply(251808,"#18 Torah Judism","Susan","WA","11/26/07","Torah Judism, thats \'a lost concept\' everyone is so caught up in all the man-made stuff, seems most have never cracked a Torah.");
AddReply(251288,"The Fishblog and the NAACP","Schvach","","11/23/07","First, I believe \'bigoted\' is spelled with 1 \'g\'.\nSecond, Reb Fishman, get your cash out of the USA. You\'re going to be sued, and Israel is about to lose its IRS tax-exempt status. ");
AddReply(251277,"Reb Fishman: Howdo youdo?","Schvach","","11/23/07","Is \'hodo\' really Hebrew for turkey?\nHow\'s it spelled in Hebrew letters?");
AddReply(250859,"The Knights of Colombus","Brad","Mansfield AR","11/22/07","Mr. Fishman the Knights of Columbus is a Roman Catholic Organization of devoted Popelickers.\nMr. Fishman they have done almost\nas much evil in America as their compatriots the Jesuits. They have \ndone great wickedness working deals with a few of our past presidents where the relationship\nof the US with Israel is concerned.\nTheir fruits of their dealings with the \nWhite House are very much evident \ntoday by the arm twisting which will\ntake place in the RC state of ...\nMARYland. The collective thinking\nof the likes RC\'s in MARYland brought the USA the CIVIL WAR, and ultimately the assasination of \nour beloved President Abraham Lincoln. Thanksgiving is a BIBLE\nBELIEVING CHRISTIAN PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY. NOT CATHOLIC IN ANY WAY FORM SHAPE OR MANNER.\n\nGod bless Israel");
AddReply(250776,"Columbus th Jew ","Craig","Springfield","11/22/07","I remember reading a Times Magazine article a long time ago about research that revealed that Columbus was indeed a Jew. ");
AddReply(250739,"Correction Mr. Fishman","Brad","Mansfield AR","11/22/07","Colombus NEVER landed on the American Continent. Columbus had\nABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with\nThanksgiving. Columbus was a Roman Catholic which IS NOT Christian. The line of people Colombus was connected to Performed the SPANISH INQUISITIONS. Murdered MONTEZUMA and STOLE his gold\nbedecking the Vatican today, and \nenslaved, murdered, and converted at the point of the sword.\n\nMr. Fishman, I am giving you a F\non your report card in the subject of \nAmerican History.\n\nGod bless and help you anyway.\n\nBIBLE BELIEVING KJB BAPTIST\nCHRISTIAN\n\nBrad ");
AddReply(250663,"Notice","Stanley Combs","Boston","11/22/07","I just stumbbled on to your biggoted blog, and as amember of the NAACP, I will be bringing this Web-site up at our next meeting. IThis is what you call Judaism?");
AddReply(250660,"BAGELS & TURKEY???????","Big Barry","Big Apple","11/21/07","is that a plate of bagels next to the turkey or am i dreaming?");
AddReply(250659,"BAGELS & TURKEY???????","Big Barry","Big Apple","11/21/07","is that a plate of bagels next to the turkey or am i dreaming?");
AddReply(250658,"BAGELS & TURKEY???????","Big Barry","Big Apple","11/21/07","is that a plate of bagels next to the turkey or am i dreaming?");
AddReply(250656,"Go Fishing!","Jay Weinstein","Westchester,NY","11/21/07","To all you old farts out there -- get off Fishman\'s case. He\'s the funniest (and most responded) blogger around! (and he hasn\'t mentioned anything about sex in the last 48 hours!)");
AddReply(250623,"About Columbus","Ronny","Jewish","11/21/07","Well, he actually did try to get to the land of the jews, because he throught that there would be jews who would live in America. Seriously.");
AddReply(250619,"Back to things that matter","mike","Vienna, VA","11/21/07","The Annapolis Surrender Conference is almost upon us.  In the meantime, Olmert is personally delivering 25 BTRs to the enemy.  I am sure that many a house wall in Yesha will soon sprout 14.5mm holes from armor-piercing KPVT rounds.  Yes, for the uninitiated, a KPVT will shoot right through a brick wall.  Those who think that Jewish security forces in Yesha are prepared to defend their settlements against armored vehicles when the IDF walks away and pretends that nothing is happening, please stand up.\n\nHere is a solution for the squeamish, presented by a gentleman who uses more civil language than myself.  It\'s workable, and at least will prevent the total extermination of the Jews of the Holy Land.\n\nhttp://web.israelinsider.com/Views/10016.htm");
AddReply(250609,"To Janet Kasten Friedman","Ellen","Brooklyn","11/21/07","I think I know you!  If you lived in Kochav HaShachar in 1986 I was your Shabbos guest twice. Once it was your birthday. I have never forgotten how much I loved the look of the Shomron, Please daven that we get there for good.  ");
AddReply(250578,"Ya, thats much less offensive Tzvi...","Rob","usa","11/21/07","so far you\'ve slammed Black folks, yesterday it was Jews, now its the xtains, tommorow the muslims?\n\nyou are out of control! :-)");
AddReply(250570,"To#26: They don\'t beat your passport...","mike","Vienna, VA","11/21/07","Alas, you did not grow up in Russia.  Go ask a Russian Jew about that old Soviet-era joke.  And don\'t be surprised when your \"fellow Americans\" break your big Jewish nose.  Your passport is a piece of paper.  No Jew can ever be an American, a Russian, a German or anything else except a Jew.");
AddReply(250548,"Apology and Retraction ","Tzvi Fishman","Yerushalayim","11/21/07","I apologize to anyone I offended with my first photo caption and have replaced it with a substitute. I hope you all like it.");
AddReply(250547,"The Jewish State is the Turkey served at antisemites Annapolis\' confer","Joseph . E","Givatayim","11/21/07","ence dinner . ");
AddReply(250538,"to Virginia Mike","The Jews of Israel","All over the country","11/21/07","Take the stuffing out of your turkey, turkey, and stuff it up your @$$.");
AddReply(250536,"Why shouldn\'t American Jews celebrate Thanksgiving?","Rachel Kohn","Seattle","11/21/07","It is a national holiday. The Jews in America are as American as everyone else. Judaism, in its many forms and expressions, is a religion identity like Christianity or Catholisim. My passport says I am an American not a Jew. So if I want to celebrate an American holiday, I will.  ");
AddReply(250532,"offensive pboto captions","please remove","","11/21/07","  if you consider yourself a truly righteous yid, you should remove the offensive captions: 1)black people don\'t long for fried chicken 2) columbus did not lead a minyan. we don\'t know if or how jewish he was. he certainly did not live or travel as a a jew.  when you look at his history he acted more as a catholic, the religion of spain. we don\'t need the third world blaming the conquest on the jews. \n  tzvi, sometimes you have insights, other times your writing is thoughtless, shallow and offensive. since you have a beard, tzitzit, peyos and a kippa it\'s about time you talked to  your rav and really checked and modified how and what you express on this blog. you are representing religious jews and you don\'t represent us well.\n  stop being an offensive representative of our people. you can express yourself, but when you do it here as a daati yid,  you have to realize the effect and impact of what you do.");
AddReply(250506,"Hey Yisrael #4","Rob ","usa","11/21/07","I found a good way around this one, I love milkshakes, you get a shake from the golden arches, it aint real,it\'s soy milk ,  ;-0");
AddReply(250495,"Moronic!","mike","Vienna, VA","11/21/07","First of all, Fishman, an attempt to establish Jewish sovereignty on territories belonging to the Ottoman Empire of the era of Suleiman the Magnificent and Mehmet the Great would end in swift massacre.  For uneducated Hollywood ignoramuses like yourself, the reason Europeans kept sailing west is that, Lepanto notwithstanding, the route East through the Holy Land was firmly blocked by a Moslem superpower intent on universal conquest and utterly inimical to all non-Moslems.  Secondly, knucklehead, Thanksgiving is a holiday Jews SHOULD celebrate, as it thanks Hashem specifically for establishing America as a safe haven for Jews, arranging its laws to give Jews equality and ensuring that the bargain Haim Solomon struck with George Washington has held to the present day.  Again, for Hollywood ignoramuses, Haim Solomon holds the distinction of spending the best-spent $250,000 in Jewish history.\n\nAs for the \"carving knives\" and the \"holocaust of assimilation\", don\'t blame America for the faults of the Jews.  No one forces Israel to blindly accept and keep idiotic agreements, from Begin\'s Folly to the Oslo Treason.  No one forces Israel to be gullible.  And no one forcibly assimilates Hollywood ignoramuses, either.  The Jews do it all to themselves.");
AddReply(250482,"to #6 Jack from Forest Hills","Janet Kasten Friedman","Kochav HaShachar","11/21/07","Look who\'s talking! When you live in Israel you can afford to make fun of Tzvi for not doing enough!");
AddReply(250479,"To jew #7","Choni Davidowitz","","11/21/07","You speak of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his \"love \"of Americans.\nThe president who the Rebbe \"got on\" with the most was probably Jimmy Carter. Nu !\nThere can be absolutely no doubt that whatever \"good\" America has done in the past for Israel was nullified by Pres. Bush\'s wish for a terrorist Arab state in Yesha.\nAmerican Jews must know that the rise in anti-semitism in the Diaspora can only be countered by one action- Aliyah en-masse.");
AddReply(250474,"Tzvi, you are a bad boy.....","Rob","usa","11/21/07","So how many years did you pollute the minds of americans with your hollywood screen writing garbage?\n\nThen you have the gaul, or is that gall, to take pot shots at us from afar.\n\nYou are not being very nice lately, is nothing sacred?? the one holiday  I felt safe to celebrate and you\'re trying to take that away from me,,,,,well to late! I\'ve already promised my hound dog pete a belly full of turkey, so there! ;-)");
AddReply(250452,"To # 16 -Regarding Columbus being Jewish","kitty","jerusalem","11/21/07","I remember a few years back hearing Tamar Yonah speaking about Columbus and his being a Jew, and she interviewed someone regarding Columbus who wrote a book about it.  I can\'t remember the name of the book or guest, and I never taped the show, but I remember her talking about it, and it was very interesting.  Write her, maybe she has a copy of the show or information about Columbus.");
AddReply(250440,"Poor Tzvi?","Another Jew in Israel","RBS","11/21/07","Tzvi deserves a meddle for being sensitive in this blog!\nHe did not utterly denounce the T-Day. He approved of Thanksgiving as a noble pursuit of Jewishness.\nHe encouraged aliyah and only once referred to American Jews as \"our schizophrenic brothers and sisters who celebrate Thanksgiving\". And he gave an interesting Jewish history lesson.\nBut the truth is that Torah is the only divinely GIVEN document on the planet. We are told by G-d to keep it, guard it and reject every false man-made religion that will try to usurp it (Christianity and Islam included).\nWhere there is confusion we are obligated to state the truth. There is confusion today with so many religions. Torah Judaism is not a religion! It is absolute truth and direction in life, from G-d Himself.\nWe are commanded to uproot and destroy false religions in the Land of Israel. While we are not physically burning down any churches or mosques, we are here to tell the Divine truth of Torah which CHristians and Muslims know to be from G-d Himself - directly to the Jewish people - in which He commanded us to reject the religions of the world.\nWe do not hold by religious slumber parties which to use a christian expression would be \"dancing with the devil\".\nOur G-d and their powers are NOT equal and never will be.\nTorah Jews have kept this Torah and G-d\'s commandments for 3500 years. Just as they have been faithful (in the image of G-d\'s faithfulness) so too will G-d be faithful and save His loyal people from those that would try to destroy them within their Land.\nI believe that nearly all the world knows this deep promise to the Jews. It has pervaded all History and while many do not believe it - I think they are pushing Israel to try to refute it in the eyes, ears and minds of all the world. The world knows we are heading to a world showdown - Islam versus the West with the Jews somehow right at the center as everyones scapegoat.\nThe question is: \"is the promise that G-d made to His people worth the parchment it is written on?\".\nWe here in Israel hold that it is worth the parchment, and we are relying on Him to save us, just as we rely on His word to guide our every aspect of life - from tying our shoelaces to tying the knots of tefillin and marriage, from eating kosher foods to faithfully remembering every Good He ever did for us - expressed beautifully by the Jewish Holidays.\nThis is the country to pronounce the UNIQUE truth of Torah and not be afraid to say it as it is - not to offend, although that will always be the outcome unfortunately.\nThe Egyptians had an all powerful god - the lamb - we tied it to our bedposts for 4 days then barbequed and ate it. The smell went right up the noses of those Lamb Faithful Egyptians, as their Lamb was at it\'s most powerful with the constellation of Aries at it\'s highest point in the sky- in the spring month of Passover.\nWhat a beautiful holiday to remember the Love of G-d for His children and our obligations to refute all false religions (who would try to minimize the eternal message of G-d\'s Torah or say that G-d changed His mind).\nG-d is not asking for us to do this to the other religions, but we must realize that such a request from G-d Himself is reasonable and congruent with the truth that \"there is nothing else besides Him\".\nMay H-shem look after His people just as they have always been faithful to Him.\nFor the christians who point out that there are many Jews who are not that nice or even Torah observant, please remember what G-d wrote for your benefit in these confusing times.\nOpen your bibles and hear G-d repeatedly talk about saving His people because of the faithful remnant. Remnants are usually left over pieces that no one wants any more. So too with H-shem\'s Holy Torah scholars; old men who have devoted their lives to G-d and been ridiculed by mainstream individuals.\nOut-of-touch with society, they are as in touch with H-shem as the prophets of 3500 years ago. These and their devout congregations are the remnant and they are as alive today as they were in every generation.\nSo, now what?\nDo kindness, justice and keep all of the commandments because it is your life (in this world and the world to come). Don\'t fight it…… come back to Torah and Eretz Israel.\n");
AddReply(250435,"oh man, it\'s too much!","Zev again","Beit Shemesh","11/21/07","you\'ve got me rolling on the floor with your picture of the turkeys.");
AddReply(250434,"Your theory re Columbus is intriguing","Teacher","Natick, Mass","11/21/07","Do you have any sources, any research papers you can point to, any proofs?");
AddReply(250433,"Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in Israel!","Condolisa Rice","WDC","11/21/07","And especially to Ehud - the biggest turkey in the world!");
AddReply(250430,"Correction Please","Paster Wayne","Bible Belt","11/21/07","Easter celebrates the resurrection not the death.");
AddReply(250429,"Thanksgiving and the people","Christopher","Kyiv","11/21/07","Why are we referring to Columbus is these comments? The Thanksgiving Holiday has its roots in the Mayflower Pilgrim community of 1620. This community left England because they wanted to worship God in Jesus Christ in freedom. They could not do so in England because the kings (until 1689) and the Anglican Church were casting them in freezing, filthy prisons,splitting up their families and fining them - \'amongst many other forms of duress and persecution\'. We need to understand that most of the kings and queens in England and the Church of England (exceptions being King Edward VI and Queen Lady Jane Grey) had no place, nor close understanding of the Bible\'s teachings. Though each ruler had some form of church tradition they abided by, or had a practical use for, they were for the most part ignorant of what was written in the Bible. Therefore it comes as no surprise that they also had little appreciation of God\'s relationship with His Jewish sons and daughters. They did not understand God\'s relationship with His Jewish sons and daughters which could be learned from the Tanakh. The Pilgrims ( and Puritans ) in difference to this ignorance knew, read and understood God had promises to His Jewish sons and daughters and related with them. To our readers on this website my challenge is for those honest in a desire to learn to do further and deeper personal research into this time period. It should be known that the Pilgrim community, and those who followed them in heart and ways afterward, had a deep respect for the Jewish People. (We should understand that people live \'generation to generation\'. A generation that comes along later in America may not hold the reverence, honor and trust towards God as his fathers did and thus not understand His covenant with His Jewish sons and daughters. Each  new generation(s) must choose to whom they will serve. Sadly, many choose to live as a law unto themselves.I trust we can see this in the United States today.  There is a war for the heart of the nation. Not out of church membership of whichever kind, but out of a real relationship \'with\' the God of Israel Abba gives one a respectful and loving heart towards His Jewish sons and daughters. It was God\'s promise to Abraham that people from \'many nations\' would come to know and love Him. The Pilgrims in reading their Geneva bibles learned from a time before their own (\'this is called historical awareness\') and were able to draw and wisdom from the covenant light that God had given Israel. Unlike others who merely called themselves followers of Jesus the Pilgrims in difference understood that God has not cast off Israel. The Pilgims desired to worship the living Eternal God freely in this new land they had never seen before. Consider Lekh L\'kha (Ber 12). This is what they would have likely had in mind while leaving their homeland England. Moreover they prayed Ezra\'s prayer to God (Ezra 8:21-23) and trusted Him to carry them to their new land where they aimed to build a new nation in America where they would be able to worship Him in freedom free of harassment. \'Dig deeper; and try to grasp the Pilgrim\'s personal and community trials and you will be reminded very soon of Israel\'s own grasping out to HaShem\'. Thanksgiving is a commemoration in which one can lift up the Name of the living God \'and thank Him alone\'. For He is worthy and keeps us all alive daily\'. To all our readers :\n\'God bless you in His undying love(Tehillim 22)\'");
AddReply(250428,"Tzvi, say five hail mary\'s","Zev","Beit Shemesh","11/21/07","I have been laughing so hard my stomach hurts. I don\'t think I could eat a turkey meal now if I wanted to. I agree with you David. It is harder to take America out of the Jew than it is to take the Jews out of America.");
AddReply(250425,"Why is everyone so riled up?","David","Ramat Beit Shemesh","11/21/07","I am white and I prefer fried chicken too. Most people do. That\'s why Kentucky Fried Chicken does so well. Eating turkey isn\'t a commandment from Sinai, so why shouldn\'t people eat what they like on TG? I think some readers get ticked off when Tzvi shows the absurdity and hypocrisy of American Jewish life. We have our own holy culture - why adopt theirs?????? ");
AddReply(250424,"Doesn\'t anyone have a sense of humor anymore?","Elena","Ramot Bet","11/21/07","");
AddReply(250421,"Tzvi - Why do you hate black people?","Jeff","Jerusalem","11/21/07","First it was \"The White House ain\'t White, brother\" where you used the term \"black\" to mean everything bad in the world.  Then you insult Dr. Rice with the classic \"What white teeth you have!\"  Now you show two ethnically African children with the caption \"Please make it fried chicken next year\"  I never realized that you are such a racist!  Please re-think your bigoted attitudes before you turn off more readers to your otherwise Torah-true messages.");
AddReply(250418,"i can\'t believe you wrote that caption. ","noam","j","11/21/07","");
AddReply(250411,"Poor Tzvi","jew","in israel","11/21/07","We understand that you left Hollywood for Israel and Judaism, but Tzvi, derech eretz kadmah l\'Torah.  You don\'t have to put down other people to build yourself up.  Judaism is the truth, and beautiful. But we don\'t have to put down other people to prove it.  Thanksgiving is a wonderful and positive AMERICAN holiday.  I am happy that the pilgrims wanted to thank G-d (and the Native American Indians) for their bounty.  You could have written this blog from a positive prospective...  \"America has a very nice holiday called, Thanksgiving.  That is really nice, but the Jewish people need to internalize this and make their thanks everyday to G-d, by ...\"  You could have done it that way without putting others down.  People who belittle others in order to make themselves bigger, are very immature people.  Tzvi, derech eretz kadmah l\'Torah. The Lubavitcher Rebbe and other great rabbis don\'t need to belittle others, they want to bring them up spiritually, to a higher level.  Your attacks on other human beings made in the image of Hashem is very sad.  I think you need a good role model, as your Torah study isn\'t enough.");
AddReply(250398,"Poor Man\'s Kahane","Jack","Forest Hills","11/21/07","Fishman tries to be a Kookian, Breslovian version of Rabbi Kahane, but he doesn\'t come close to Rabbi Kahane\'s wit, passionate style,Torah genius, and love for Am Yisrael. Rabbi Kahane would get himself arrested at Annapolis while Fishman will be writing his blogs in the comfort of his home with the rest of the big talk do nothing rightests in Israel.. ");
AddReply(250396,"Wonderful!","RBD","Har Nof","11/21/07","");
AddReply(250389,"not all the Jews in America are black!","Yisrael","P\"T","11/21/07","But many of them do like a nice milkshake with their meat (like in the excellent picture).\nI like the way you explain how Yom-Todah is mutar - permitted, but that it is better to do it the Jewish daily thanksgiving way.\nYour religious antagonists will probably write that you are heretically trying to undermine the best Jewish holiday in the US. A day on which the religious can \"eat AND drive AND visit family\" and the remaining few Jews who are still slightly connected to tradition can drive without their usual emotional guilt of driving on SHabbos or Yom Tov.\nBut unfortunately you could probably count on one hand those Jews that lie between the observant and those that feel no guilt about driving on a Shabbos. \nCome home to Israel (the land of thunder and lightning and heavy rain today!) while your children are not eating milk and turkey at the same time - or worse.");
AddReply(250388,"A Jew is supposed to be a Jew ","Yehuda","Kiryat Arba","11/21/07","And not try to imitate the gentiles. Tzvi is right. Trying to be like the goyim is what gets us in all of our troubles - just like what we are doing at Annapolis. Imaging giving up pieces of the Land of Israel just to be photographed with a goy. ");
AddReply(250385,"that\'s ME & MY SIS\' in that picture!","Moses Brown ","from Dimona","11/21/07","That\'s us in the 60\'s! Before we\'z come on aliyah. Man, at least that TURKEY is KOSHER -- not like those NATURAY KARTA TURKIESin yaw last blog! Can ya give me some DARK meat? An don\'t forget the BLACK-EYED PEAS! HOODOO L\'FISH KEY TOV!");
AddReply(250383,"Not everything American is bad","Devorah","Efrat","11/21/07","I generally enjoy your blogs but this time you are exaggerating too much. We want to bring people closer not turn them away.");

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