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AddReply(508156,"Okay, David/Dacon","Malka","upstate NY","10/26/09","I think we\'ve all taken this thread as far as it can go. What else to say except Shavua tov and see you further up on future threads and arguments...er discussions:)\n\nBe well.");
AddReply(508003,"NOT YOU MRS.TAMAR.ANOTHER,CERTAINLY AND SURELY IT WAS NOT YOU.","","......DACON9","10/25/09","SPENT SHABBAT IN \'\'THE SHUL\'\' \n\nAMAZING COMMUNITY \n\nWENT TO A FERBRAGEN MOTZTEI SHABBAT....EVEN I SPOKE A LITTLE STORY...\n\n..WELL...OFF TO A CLASS  \n");
AddReply(507694,"OK......YOU DUMMIES","","......DACON9","10/25/09","I LEFT MY TEMPORARY DWELLING OF BROOKLYN NY THE SCHWARNA CAPITAL OF THE WORLD TO SOJOURN TO MIAMI BEACH FOR A 4 DAY HOLIDAY.\n\nI HAVE PLENTY OF ANSWERS FOR ALL YOU DUMMIES....\n\nAND GENIUSES ALIKE\n\nI WOULD LIKE TO SOMETHING APART FROM ALL THIS BALAGAN\n(CRAZINESS) I HAD THE HONORTO HEAR A LT OF THE IDF\nGIVANTI BRIGADE WHO WASTOURIING THE JEWISH COOMUNITIES FOR SUPPORTING AND PRAYING FOR ISRAEL AND\n THE IDF.\n\nTHIS WAS IN SPITE OF THE A7 GENIUS BLOGGERS WHO STATED EMPATICALLY THAT OUR PRAYERS OUTSIDEOF ISRAEL ARE OF NO VALUE WHATSOEVER.\nCHAS VE SHALOM.\n\nI HAVE ALOT TO SAY FOR THIS THAT ARE SITTING IN THEAUDIENCE AND THINKING THAT I RAN AWAY. \n\nI MUST ANSWER JUST BECAUSE OF YOU GUYS  WAITING FOR THE WINNER.\n\nAND I WILL. TE YA ABOUT THE IDF LT FROM THE SHAKED BATTALIONS AND HIS STORIES...\nI WAS MOVED TO TEARS..\n\nYOU GUYS ARE UTTERLY AMAZING...\n\nYO MAH MAN THAT KNOWS A LOWLIFE IN JAIL 19 TIMES UNTIL HE DISCOVERED A mangod idol that violates GDS VERY COMMANDMENTS...THE FIRST AND SECOND COMMANDMENT....\n\nHE DISCOVERED NOTHING BUT HIMSELF....AFTER 19 TIMES HE FINALLY BROKEDOWN...AND FACED HIMSELF....\nTHAT HE WAS A LOWLIFE..\n\nNOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN FALSE gods and idols....\nWHAT IS YOUR PORPOSE OF COMING TO A ONCE JEWISH SITE TO TELL JEWS ABOUT WHAT JEWS REJECT....?\nA SUBTRAFUGE ?\n..A TRICK BY YOU? \'DONT BOTHER TO ANSWER..IT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION..I ALREADY KNOW YOUR ANSWER...\n\n\'\'AH\'LL BE BOCK\'\nEITHER HERE OR IN MY BLOG.BUT IF Mrs Tamar allows ,I will answer in her latest article \nwhenever....even if not related to the story line...\n\n\n\nemail :  jewswithviews@gmail.com\n.\nWATCH FOR IT YA DUMMIES...\'\n\n(Tamar says:  DACON, all prayers are heard, wherever anyone is in this world, so please do not state that I have ever said differently. This is just not true.)");
AddReply(507685,"To Meira and Dacon","Malka","upstate NY","10/25/09","In a way, I\'m now happy with the new numbering, since most of these more recent posts on this thread would have been buried with the old system.\n\nMeria, you\'re right. We\'re both Italian and have the anarchy gene lol. Inevitable growing up in a culture where we\'re constantly asked if we capisce (understand).\n\nUnderstanding is important to us:) BTW, my Italian ancestors were from the Bari region of Italy, near the Andria Mountains. We must have had Jewish friends because no one in my Italian American neighborhood was anti-Semitic.\n\nBut more on capisce.\n\nMost rabbis (or at least many) value understanding. So often when they\'re teaching they\'ll stop and ask,  \"What do we mean by this? \" and back track and clarify matters. Gotta love them for that!\n\nComing from an xtian background I am immune to missionaries. I do know the basics. I know all their plys and to be honest, when they accusing question,  \"So, you deny JC? \" Gets asked, I don\'t flinch. It simply doesn\'t put me on the spot or intimidate me.\n\nDavid:) Glad to see you ended your last post by citing Numbers 6:24. That was a beautiful way to end your comment. And I agree 100-percent with everything you cited, as it is of course from Torah.");
AddReply(507582,"Dacon","stella","wpg","10/24/09"," Dacon, David, (whatever),\nHashem said that Jews are to be a light unto the nations, you are not being a light, you are standing condemning, judging, and throwing dust that could eventually blind you.\nBe a light, shine the light of Torah, by following the Torah, Gd does not judge like you do. Thank GD!\nTeach like other Rabbi\'s do, many do with understanding and love for the world out there. Hashem is probably waiting for most Jews to wake up to their prime role of being a light and not a\'blight\' unto the nations.  Tell me Dacon, why are Jews turning and going to the xtians?  Could it be that you are not practicing being a light to them first?  Maybe when they come across ones like you, they look else where. \n \n Now David/Dacon, if you are hurt, i say sorry to you. But please start being the light you have to be, guide gently, and no i do not go dancing or whatever term you used, among the tulips, ouch , cannot imagine doing that, my knee hurts with arthritis.!!\nHave a good one Dacon/David, these posts have gone way past what you dreamed of. :) :)  ");
AddReply(507568,"To David(dacon) and all the rest ?:)","stella","wpg","10/24/09","Hello Everyone,\nFirst i have to correct my writing, i gave the impression i am a christian!!!  Heaven forbid!!!\ni was born into that cult, but i never felt good in it. NO i am not a xtian, i am now a follower of Hashem, i love the Jews, i love Torah, and i love Hashem, no Jc for me.  \nSo to all there, i correct my typing error, and declare to one and all, i AM NOT A CHRISTIAN,  i rather just say i am Noahide.\nGd bless all the Jews, and open the eyes of all to follow only Hashem.\nstella from Winnipeg.");
AddReply(507567,"Thanks Tamar for the answer to my 58","Meira BAt Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/24/09","I actually did get a lot  of answers form Tovia\'s web site as I became ba\'al chuva in the US.  But you reach a point where it\'s you  \"thinking \" that has to change, not Just running to the rabbi with any question. If you don\'t do that, you don\'t even know what questions to ask after you have the basic rules down.\nI\'m waaaaaay past being susceptible to missionaries but your recommendations are exactly what I mean for those who don\'t know how to handle them especially those still in Galut. ");
AddReply(507521,"Abdul, Madonna, etc.","Andy","PA, USA","10/24/09","I\'ve read several of the blogs and I\'m not trying to throw dirt here as you asked at the end of your post. But I ran into some videos that show Paula in not such a good light and video images are tough to deny. But it has nothing to do with that. I liked Paula\'s music back in my twenties. And when I heard that about her I was tickled pink. On the other hand Madonna is being so celebrated for taking on Judaism and Kaballa in particular. Please, it wasn\'t too long ago where she\'s on stage kissing another girl. I regarded Madonna to be not a very good role model at all. I\'m not saying someone can\'t change. There was a prison ministry banquet in York, PA just last week. Some of the testimonies were incredible. One guy was in prison 19 times and coming to know Jesus transformed him dremendeously. Nobody ever thought that could be even a remote possibility. So, it\'s not coming to Judaism or coming to Christianity, in either case it\'s an acknowledgement of Hashem as the creator that he is. And realizing that his holiness is something to be dealt with. That has the transforming power. Why else was Hashem furious with the Jews during the days of Jeremiah and Isaiah and Ezekiel as well. Doing the right things doesn\'t make your heart righteous. Having a contrite spirit, knowing that you can\'t do without Hashem and that if your heart is right Hashem will pull you out of the mud pit is what is important for true transformation. I feel drawn close to the Jewish feasts. But not because they\'re Jewish, but because the way Hashem reveals himself to those that he calls his, Jew and Gentile alike.");
AddReply(507163,"DACON","MBY","Jerusalem","10/23/09","I hope you will be a PInchas and not a Nadav or Abihu.");
AddReply(507162,"DACON","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/23/09","Thank you for the  \"brilliant \" compliment. I\'m trying. I cannot disagree with anything you said here and if you would say everything as you just did, I do think more of us would listen.\nDACON, I am 63. I  cannot find a good program that will have me to learn formally.  But more to the point, I don\'t want a guru and I don\'t want to join a cult. I do not need a Rabbi to tell me how and when I can breathe. Those of us who grew up assimilated are familiar with idolatrous teachings. if we went to college we may have been required to take  \"comparative religions. \"  I wasn\'t B \"H but I picked up plenty from being a naturally curious person. \nThis experience is why I am convince dthat the best defense against missionaries is not to go after them with pitchforks and torches but to KNOW JUDAISM.  Because of Lev 19:4 it is actually almost impossible to get a Rabbi to set you straight when you have a question about something a non-Jewish friend said.  The only answer I have gotten to a question is  \"Jews don\'t believe that. \" Ok fine. You want to be sure I don\'t, tell me what\'s wrong with it. I\'m not only  \"briliant,\'\'  I \"m Italian, Malka too come to think of it and we were born with the anarchy gene. LOL You are not going to turn us into good little sheeple. You want us to understand something and accept it, you\'d better come up with a good argument as to why we should and why it\'s right. And don\'t you dare abrogate your responsibility as a senior member of the community by telling us to go find  good rebbitzens.   If you have the knowledge, you have the responsibility. If you think we\'re deficient in our knowledge then YOU change that by teaching us. No cop outs permitted. If you won\'t then you have forfeited your right to criticize.\nShabbat Shalom, David\n\n(Tamar adds:  Maybe the rabbis that were approached were not experts in missionary manipulations.  I\'d like to suggest a very interesting video by Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi where he debated recently, a Christian.  It was very enlightening.  See: http://www.divineinformation.com/downloads/Rabbi_Yossi_Mizrachi_The_Debate_2007_11_07.wmv   Also, Tovia Singer\'s website has free lecture series explaining many things people have questions about.  http://www.outreachjudaism.org/");
AddReply(507036,"TORAH LAWS AND ZEAL","","......DACON9","10/22/09","ZEAL: PINHAS USED HIS ZEAL TO DEFEND THE HONOR OF HASHEM AND OUR HOLY NATION PINHAS TOOK HIS SPEAR AND WITH ONE SWIFT THRUST  WENT INTO THE 2 COHABITATING IN FRONT OF OUR NATION KILLING THEM INSTANTLY\nHASHEM REWARDED HIS \'ZEAL\' BY MAKING HIM A PRIEST, A KOHAIN FOR HIS DEFENDING TORAH AND THE HOLY NATION OF ISRAEL\nZEAL TO DEFEND TORAH IS DEMANDED.\n____________________\n\nTHE following   are from torah directly\nIt is not what i wish or what i think or what i want. THe following is from HASHEM TO MOSES TO US.\n\nJUDAISM IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.\nIT IS A DICTATORSHIP\nHASHEM GIVES  THE LAWS . THEY ARE NOT DEBATABLE\nHASHEM GIVES YOU FREE CHOICE..LISTEN OR NOT\nREWARD AND PUNISHMENT.\n_________\n_________\nTo know that He is one Deut. 6:4 \n\n Not to entertain thoughts of other gods besides Him Ex. 20:3 \n\nTo cleave to those who know Him Deut. 10:20 \n\nTo reprove Lev. 19:17 \n\nTo learn Torah Deut. 6:7 \n\nTo honor those who teach and know Torah Lev. 19:32 \n\nNot to inquire into idolatry Lev. 19:4 \n\nNot to follow the whims of your heart or what your eyes see Num. 15:39 \n\nNot to make an idol for yourself Ex. 20:4  HOLLYWOOD IDOLS HEROS SUPERSTARS CIGARRETTE HABITS ARE IDOLS\n\n Not to make or own human forms even for decorative purposes Ex. 20:20 \n\nNot to turn a city to idolatry  Ex. 23:13,  BETHLEHEM\n\nTo burn a city that has turned to idol worship Deut. 13:17 \n\nNot to missionize an individual to idol worship Deut. 13:12 \n\nNot to love the missionary Deut. 13:9 \n\n Not to cease hating the missionary Deut. 13:9 \n\n Not to save the missionary  Deut. 13:9 \n\n40 Not to say anything in his defense  Deut. 13:9 \n\n Not to refrain from incriminating him  Deut. 13:9 \n\nNot to derive benefit from ornaments of idols  Deut. 7:25 \n\nNot to make a covenant with idolaters Deut. 7:2 \n\n Not to show favor to them  Deut. 7:2 \n\n Not to let them dwell in our land  Ex. 23:33 \n\nNot to imitate them in customs and clothing  Lev. 20:23 \n\nBRITTANY SPEAS MADONA\n\nNot to engage in astrology Lev. 19:26 \n\nMen must not wear women\'s clothing Deut. 22:5 \n\n Women must not wear men\'s clothing Deut. 22:5\n \n Not to tattoo the skin Lev. 19:28 \n\nTo serve the Almighty with prayer daily  Ex. 23:25 \n\nThe Kohanim must bless the Jewish nation daily Num. 6:23 \n_____________\nTHE ABOVE are some of the 613 laws that has volumes of commentary and can only be learned with a torah orthodox rabbi\nNOT A REFORM AND NOT A CONSERVATIVE\nIf those were rabbis they would never alter change of \'\'modernize\'\n\'\'HASHEMS WORDS AS HANDED DOWN TO US BY MOSES MOSHE RABBEINU.\n\nYOU MALKA AND MIERA ARE BRILLIANT IF ONLY  YOU LEARN TO APPLY YOUR BRILLIANCE TO ACCURATE torah and now what  you pick up from the street or think is right.\n\nI did my best to enlighten you as to stella and Kohaineem.\n\nIf you still feel you  are right....\nI did my obligation ..\nyou bear the burden of being wrong...\nBUT YOU WOULD DO BEST TO YOURSELF TO FIND A TORAH RABBI OR REBBTZIN.\nNOT AN OFF THE WALL WACKO SANDEL WEARING HIPPIE RABBI IN THE DESERT.\nThere are many Rabbis that get lost in their own arrogance\' and \'enlightenment\nlike jeus and koach.\n\nnow i will leave you for sure\nsome of you have my email. You may email me with questions that I will ask universally accepted qualified RABBIS TO PROVIDE YOU  WITH THE ANSWER..IF I HAVE TIME...\nI KNOW NOTHING BY MYSELF.\nI ASK QUALITY RABBIS.\nI ANSWER VERY LITTLE ON MY OWN. I SAY THIS TO LET YOU KNOW, THAT I TRULY KNOW NOTHING AND GET ADVICE.\nWHICH YOU SHOULD DO..\n\n#52. I DIDNT SEE THE VIDEO\nI KNOW THE VIDEO IS 2 YEARS OLD. #52 good for you to catch it.\nthat so called rabbi looks more enthralled speaking to her then being in the spiritual company of TORAH.. so why should i waste my time...looking and listening to what she or he says.\n\nEMAIL:jewswithviews@gmail.com");
AddReply(506889,"Malka","Meira BT","Jerusalem","10/22/09","Well, together we gave our DACON what he wanted, more than 53 tb\'s. LOL\nI think we owe it to him to be nice because he is a human being and our brother.  There is a lot of hate in these forums and it\'s easy to get sucked into it.\nI understand what you\'re saying and you\'re right but actually that is actually the function of the KHG. He takes makes atonement for us. That\'s why the Christians call  \"Hesus \" \n(the Sephardic  Yoshke) their Great High Priest. They understood the function of the KHG but misapplied it. \nYour sin doesn\'t fall on D9 but when he gets his shot at Yom Kippur, he\'ll be making supplication for you and the rest of us. \n");
AddReply(506804,"Meira and Dacon","Malka","upstate NY","10/22/09","Great comment, Meira. I understand and agree with what you wrote. Still, I do feel that as a kohen Dacon does merit a bit more respect than the majority of people show him here.\n\nCall me silly or ignorant, but if moshiach came today and the temple were rebuilt, and if Dacon were to go into the holy of holies...I would feel as though on a small level I\'d be defiling that by putting hate on Dacon.\n\nI can\'t articulate it well, but it is something along those lines. I just feel like he\'d be bringing me hate in there with him. Makes no sense but that\'s how I feel.\n\nYes, of course we should be respectful to all people.\n\nDacon--you were unduly harsh with Stella. Yes, very valid points about xtianity. No doubt, but your overreaction was like swatting a fly with a battering ram.\n\nAnd why give non Jews reason to view Jews in a negative light? Be a light unto the nations, not a battering ram:)\n\n\nLittle side note on kohenim--Avraham Fried is a kohen, too, and his song Yisimcha includes the priestly blessing. It\'s really beautiful!\n\n\n");
AddReply(506730,"DACON much as i hate to ","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/22/09","increase your body count, I had to answer. I understand that much is demanded of Cohanim spiritually even now without the Temple. I\'m not sure we are supposed to ever give you particular deference however and that is what I was addressing. We are supposed to treat every one well and not single out any particular group for preferential treatment.\nWhen the Temple is rebuilt the Cohanim will take great spiritual risks for us but now your function on this earthly level is ordinary with the exception of offering the Birkat ha Cohanim. BTW were you here for that this year and have you been fitted for your priestly garments? If not I would suggest you are a shirker of your Torah duties and even less worthy of special consideration. Ranting at us is not in the Priestly repertoire according to Torah. That is left to the Prophets. Remember it was Moshe Rabbeinu\'s temper that got him banned from entering here. We forget that he too was a Levite but it was Aaron who was elevated to the priesthood.  We must also not forget Nadav and Abihu who were in line for Kohen Hagadol but blew it.  And how did they blow it? Not by being  \"bad \" but by being TOO zealous.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(506720,"Kissing a woman","Mordechai","","10/22/09","I don\'t know if Gershon Veroba is married or not, but it really doesn\'t matter. Halacha forbids kissing someone of the opposite gender unless it is one\'s wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, or granddaughter. He knew he was being videotaped and didn\'t mind. Maybe he should take off his kippah and not misrepresent orthodox Judaism.");
AddReply(506421,"#50, you bind yourself to the earthly materiel level","","........DACON9","10/21/09","when we speak of GD chosing...\n WE LEARN IT IS A SPIRITUAL LEVEL OF HASHEM CHOSING AND CREATING.\nNOT MATERIAL EARTHLY UNDERSTANDINGS.\n\nTHEN LEARN THE LAWS OF KOHAINEEM AND WHAT IS EXPERCTED OF THEM.\n\n\nyou may speak as you like\n as much as you like\nbut you are wrong about everything.\n\nI only tell you because you want to be right,now after reading my comment, you can go foward being right.\n\nSTELLA TAKE OUT MY JEWS FROM ALL YOUR CHURCHES AND TELL THEM THEY FOLLOW A FALSE mangod GOING AGAINST TORAH\nUNBRAINWASH THEM\n RETURN THEM TO JUDAISM SO YOU CAN BE CALLED A RIGHTOUS GOYA \n\nSTELLA you cant help but to speak to JEWS from your dark xtian corner.\nYOU have need doing this for a few thousand years.\n JEWS CANNOT BE MEASURED BY A XTIAN YARDSTICK\nWE ARE A HIGH A MIGHTY NATION ABOVE ALL NATIONS.\nYOU ARE TOLD TO LEARN FROM US. \nYOU ARE TOLD TO FOLLOW US.\nYOU ARE NOT TOLD TO JUDGE US.\nYOU ARE TOLD TO BE GOOD TO US AND TO SUPPORT US IN EVERYTHING.\nYOU FIRST MISSION:\nis to go to to your closest church and find \nTHE JEWS THAT WAS CAPTURED AND  HELP RETURN THEM TO THEIR FAMILY AND THE ONE GD OF ISRAEL\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncount is now 51,\n two  more to go \n\nagain i take my haitus\n");
AddReply(506364,"Malka","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/21/09","First. let me apologize for al the typos in my previous to DACON. Bad eye day.\nNext, I don\'t give Choanim special consideration because of it, when the Temple is rebuilt, maybe but in Temple days, the Cohanim went about their business doing the sacrifices maintaining the Temple etc. In essence they were our servants in the service to Hashem. We took care of them so that they would have time for their duties.\nWe have to get over this idea in Judaism that we are a superior bloodline and that within us there is a still more superior one.  Hashem chose us, not because of anything special we did, to the contrary he chose us for our ordinariness because then the Nations would have to say it was HIm and not our own efforts. Similarly he chose Aaron, not the living leader, Moshe, of His people to be the father of the priestly class.  Isn\'t it interesting that Moshe, the younger son, and one with a speech disorder, was the chosen leader during the Exodus? \nMalka right now Cohanim can be as ignorant as anyone else while those of us called Israel can be learned and scholars. There is no reason to accord them special privilege especially when they are wrong. I merely didn\'t refer to David by name initially since by using a nic, he has shown he prefers to be somewhat anonymous.  Oh well! C\'est la vie!");
AddReply(506129,"Oopsie, Meria LOL.","Malka","upstate NY","10/20/09","I spilled the beans on Dacon\'s real name:) Not that there\'s only one person with his name in the phone book.\n\n\nAh, but he\'s our only Dacon, and as Tevye says in Fiddler,  \"we\'ve always had our special types. \"\n\nDacon is special here on Arutz Sheva. And since he is a Kohen, I will still try to be respectful to him.");
AddReply(505987,"DACON vs. Stella","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jeerusalem","10/20/09","That totally uncalled for and really puts us Jew sin a wonderful light. Way to go.  If you ever left BKLYN you might find out that there are many places in the wonderful US of A where people never met a Jew and all they know about Israel or is is their  \"bible. \" Since Wpg CA has lots of open spaces, I\'ll bet it\'s the same there.  Thanks for reinforcing the stereotype. \nFYI, not all xtians follow the pope. I\'d say most Southern Baptists have as big a problem, if not bigger, with the concept of the papacy as you do. \nTalk about judging. Stella didn\'t  \"judge \" you however she did chastise you for your behavior as I\'m doing now.  I don\'t know what your end will be. I pray it will be peaceful and easy and all your zeal for Hashem will bring you a good reward.  I have to say, DAvid, taht you have embarrassed me doubly. First, as a Jew and then as a Sephardi.  Why give them fuel to use to call us ignorant, hateful and hot headed? It wasn\'t worth it. I was hoping to diffuse your reaction with my previous comment  trying to inject some humor into the situation. \nYou have some legitimate issues against xtians but please don\'t every xtian who tries to converse with you. Why would they ever want to listen to you or read books you suggest. Your trying to convert them is just a heinous as the other way around. It is equally missionary.  \nYou owe Stella, Sephardi Jews and Jews in general an apology.\nStella, I can\'t apologize for David but I hope you will forgive him and more importantly, not be turned off Jewish people. This is NOT typical of us. Consider the context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(505823,"STELLA","","...DACON9","10/20/09","DO YOU ALSO TIP TOE THROUGH THE TULIPS WITH YOUR XTIAN LOVE?\nHOW ARE YOU SERVING HASHEM?\nDID YOUSTUDY THE 1st AND 2nd commandment?\nby a jewish commentator?\n\ndid you read ewither of these 2 books\n1) path of the rightous gentile\n2) 7 colors of the rainbow\n\ndo you wat me to take you to the\n\'\'MT OF GD?\n\nYOU HAVE JUDGED ME\n BY YOUR COMMENTS..\nHOW ABOUT YOU JUDGE YOURSELF LADY...\nDO I AS ADVISE YOU ABOVE..\nTHEN GET BACK TO ME.\n\nyou\'ll find me protesting outside  the white house against Obama\n\nstella..by  the way i always look for canadian toilet paper...its the best quality....\n\nONE MORE THING STELLA\nTELL YOUR POPE I WANT EVERYTHING YOU XTIANS STOLE FROM OUR HOLY TEMPLE AT ONCE....\nALL THE SCROLLS ALL THE SILVER AND THE LIST OF JEWS THAT WERE FORCED TO CONVERT..EVERY NAME NOT A MERE 25 TO APPEASE THE PUBLIC RELATION PEOPLE.\n\nLETS SEE...I BET I CAN BRING THE TALKBACKS UP TO AT LEAST 53...\nANY BETS PEOPLE?\nPLACE YER BETS ");
AddReply(505787,"To Stella","malka","upstate NY","10/19/09","Stella, Dacon is his screen name. His real name is David Cohen. The screen name is from his real name.");
AddReply(505774,"Stella, uhoh, now you did it.","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/19/09","Just teasing. DACON  is a Jewish name in a way. We\'re big on anagrams and sort of abbreviations which is what this is. I won\'t give away his name but DACON is formed form parts of his first and last. He probably is throwing a fit and trying to come up with an answer to your perfectly fine question. I suggest reading these blogs and getting a sense of him before approaching with any sort of rebuttal or question.  Better yet go to  \"Jews with views. \" You\'ll have to google. I think it\'s on Blogspot but don\'t remember.");
AddReply(505712,"Dacon Vs Tamar and poor Paula","stella","wpg canada","10/19/09","Dacon, calm down, you need to relax, i am a xtian, i am following Hashem, do not condemn anyone, for as you judge Gd will judge you too.\nTamar is a beautiful being.  All that Gd created is beautiful, you are too, but you are picking up dirt to throw at G-d\'s creations, like tamar and Paula, and so sad, the dirt is flying back to you.  Be nice, be kind, i would love to be a Jew.\nGd bless you Dacon, is that a Jewish name?\nstella.");
AddReply(505362,"Bacon loves Dacon but Dacon hates Bacon .","Shmalzy Tzoros Macher","Vancouver","10/18/09","Bacon loves Dacon but Dacon hates Bacon ");
AddReply(505302,"My apologies, Paula Abdul!","KN","Northern Israel","10/18/09","Thanks for writing this about Paula Abdul. I didn\'t know she came from a Jewish background. I must admit to prejudice here - I saw the name Abdul and automatically thought: Abdul = Arab  - and dismissed her as such! More shame to me! When I thought about it I realized I know at least one family of very religious Syrian Jews with that family name, I just didn\'t make the connection at the time. Sorry, Paula, it must be hard enough putting up with the Goy\'s reaction to your Jewishness without being black-listed by your own people for no good reason! Yashar Koach to you on your personal spiritual journey in Judaism!");
AddReply(505204,"Malka, Velvel","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/18/09","Thank you my dear sister. \nVelvel, we seem to be agreeing more. That\'s scary. LOL You said almost word for word what I told Simon.\nAs for DACON, it\'s his Syrian rabbis who need to repent from making their loathsome edict and leading their flock into this averah. As a Cohain, he is particularly bound by it because the community adopted it precisely to protect their Cohanim.  They have a rather high percentage of them and finding wives that meet Torah standards is difficult. This is how they chose to do it. Perhaps he\'s projecting a bit, knowing that Paula is no longer permitted to him and had her parents stayed in the community and raised a nice machmir Syrian girl, who knows?  At any rate, it is not just DACON\'s pesonal opinion here. Someone please tell me how one is to handle a rabbinical edict on one\'s community, knowing it is against Torah.   ");
AddReply(504892,"DACON- Refusal to accept the convert is forbidden in Torah EXPLICITLY","Velvel","silver spring","10/16/09","in MULITPLE PLACES .  Over and over again it is stressed not to oppress the convert.   That implies that there is such a thing as a convert.   Even a child understands that.    \n\nAnd yet, at the same time, you claim to be living a life according to Torah.... When the very same Torah tells us over and over again to accept converts.    Talk about  \"cognitive dissonance. \"   Your poisonous ideology is very dangerous and Hashem will punish those who flaunt his commandments.   \n\nRepent now while there is still time.");
AddReply(504889,"Shimon #25","Velvel","silver spring","10/16/09","You\'ve never heard of Sephardic or Mizrachi Jews?   They often will have Arabic names.   Just like Jews living in America have English names, Jews from Germany took German surnames, Jews in France with French names etc....    It says her father was a Syrian Jew.  Why would she have to  \"adopt \" a  \"goyishe \" Arab name, when it was her father\'s name since he was a Jew from an Arab land?   ");
AddReply(504773,"To Tamar, Ellen and Meira","Malka","upstate NY","10/16/09","Well. This post was about a Jewish women and Ellen\'s last comment was so beautiful.\n\nThis is my final comment on this post--Ellen, Meria and Tamar, you\'re all beautiful Jewish women, beautiful people!\n\n");
AddReply(504668,"bringing back our own people","ellen","Golan Heights","10/16/09","Nice post.  It\'s nice to see efforts directed at bringing back our own people into the fold.  This is what it\'s all about.\n\nI\'m so tired of seeing blogs which trash liberal Jews, secular Jews or Hollywood Jews. a lot of us have been there and done that and we came back - to Judaism\n\nWe just finished Succot at note how much attention is paid the the aravot (the willow branches) - representing the Jews without Torah or Mitzvot.  Those branches  (souls) are very precious.  It\'s said that they always grow close to their source (water) and that Hashem personally supervises their growth.");
AddReply(504633,"to Dacon9","joseph","thornhill","10/16/09","You should reduce the Prozac and maybe increase the Lithium. Stay in your ghetto, because when you show your  \"wisdom \" to the world, you exhibit a pathologic Yiddishkeit that would have Hashem pulling out his hair! Do us all a favor and stop writing rubbish.");
AddReply(504531,"CDG","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/15/09","I\'ll let you in on a little secret, my family were very secular and not even especially Italian so I didn\'t grow up  \"Sephardia \" either. LOL but we had Armenian neighbors and she was like a second mother to me so I got the  \"mizrachi \" treatment (lots of love and pistachio nuts) anyway. We had lots of Ashk. ( imho, the  \"ashcan \" remark was disrespectful)  neighbors so I got the Judaism from that but it was a bit out of sync with my very Mediterranean nature. My poor mother had no idea what to do with me since HER theme song was  \"Yankee doodle \" \nI share your sentiment about one nusach but I will not submit to an alien one that disrespects my heritage. If you want to learn the right way to speak Hebrew, find some Temanim and talk with them. Theirs is the closest to the ancient authentic language according to linguistic experts.\n\nAs for Katz, you are correct but it was used exclusively in Ashk. German/Yiddish speaking communities. I never met a Sephardi Katz. My husband\'s storu is similar to yours. He grew up GErman Reform but just Reform enough to get him and his younger brother thru Bar Mitzvah. After that pfft! So he felt he didn\'t have a nusach. When we started becoming religious and learning about Sephardiut, he took it on. He went in front of a minyan and Rabbi, formally renounced Ashkenazism and took on all the minhagim of Sephardiut. \nIt is hard to learn here especially for women, but there are some good websites and if you email Tamar. I will ask her to forward your email to me and I will answer you privately. We are still struggling to find the right rabbi and community.\n\n\n ");
AddReply(504483,"Some people are never satisified","Rachel Garber","Phila PA USA","10/15/09","Some people are never satisfied, are we going to condemn her because she is Torah Jewish, or embrace her and hope that with support she will become more observant. Every beginning starts with the first step.  Give her a break, of course we should recognize the more observant woman, but if Tamar is praising her, she must be worth our recognition.  Funny too because a lot of black people, in America think of her as one of them, perhaps because of her  \"Arab \" last name, some do seem to think that Arabs are black people. Paula\'s first marriage was to a Jewish man, they were married under a huppah.  Unfortunately they divorced, but her choice of husband was a Jewish man. ");
AddReply(504432,"To Dacon Again","Malka","upstate NY","10/15/09","Dacon--the vast majority of people who undergo Orthodox conversions are very sincere. True there are some extremely aggressive missionaries infiltrating shuls but the fault lies with the rabbis if these missionaries are ultimately converted.\n\nThe long, and I mean very long, conversion process would typically reveal these frauds for what they are.\n\nTell me--do you have an Orthodox Siddur or have you crossed out the part of the Amidah pertaining to the righteous, including righteous converts?\n\nAlso, in my Siddur above the Bedtime Shema there is a meditation which includes the words  \"I forgive every Jew. \"\n\nJust something to think about. Since you\'re not commenting anymore let\'s have that as the final thought, okay?\n\nIt\'s a good way to end the back and forth insults gently.\n\n");
AddReply(504388,"to Simon & to Meira","CDG","Yerushalayim","10/15/09","Simon, I second Meira\'s reply. Many Jews from the Middle East have names that, at least to our unwashed ears, sound Arabic. What do you think of the names Mizrahi and Betesh? Both are names in my family (mother\'s side).\n\nMeira, that means I share Sephardi heritage with you. My mom\'s relatives are Syrian. My dad\'s family is Ashkenazic; but since he didn\'t raise me and I don\'t know his family so well, I don\'t feel like such an  \"Ashcan \" (as a former rabbi of ours says). I have read your posts with much understanding mixed with some jealousy, since I didn\'t get the benefit of being raised Sephardi. (Too long a story for a post here.)\n\nOnly one little nit for you, Meira: The name Katz is an abbreviation that stands for Kohen Tzedek. I do agree with you that I wouldn\'t expect a Sephardi(a) to bear it -- but I also believe it\'s not impossible.\n\nTo you both: At some point I hope that both A&S (and other galut-based paths) will make way for a path indigenous to Eretz Yisrael, from which all the current paths descend. Along with that, I expect our pronunciation of Hebrew to change as well - unfortunately for some, Hebrew, like Jewish names, will sound more like Arabic, as it used to long ago.");
AddReply(504372,"TAMAR YOU FORCED ANOTHER REPLY FROM ME","","......DACON9","10/15/09","I AM SURE YOU DONT LACK READING COMPREHENSION OR HAVE A DYSLEXIA,\nWhat you do have is a case of insecurity, trying to best me.\nYou dont have the skills lady.\nIf youread my previous comments, I was clear in describing ruths rightousness\nand clear that we dont have those characteristics today not in supposed converts and not in the rabbis. Both are hard to find.\nYour recent conversions of benie meneshe uncovered 60 posers , liars that were converted fully by your rabbis and Rabbi Lipshitz the antimissionary rabbi discovered 60 active missionaries in yor shuls working hard and fast to convert jews to xtian while their children were attending yeshivot and inviting good innocent trustworthy jews to their homes of xtians to play.\n\nNow i was erfectly clear madam, Ruth was rightous and we would have DAVEED HAMELECH NO MATTER WHAT I THINK SAY OR DO..BECAUSE THE WORLD DOESNT RUN ON MY PLAN\nThe world runs on the ONE GD OF ISRAELS PLANS. iF HASHEM DEEMD IT THAT the nation of israel NEEDED KING DAVEED, THEN THAT WILL BE..\nand so again madam, you show your lack of depth of faith in the workings of the world and our nation...\n\nNO MY COMMUNITY DOES NOT ACCEPT CONVERTS AND YOUR RECENT TERRIBLE MISTAKE OF FINDING 60 LIARS PRETENDING TO BE ORTHODX JEWS IS THUS PREVENTED FROM DAMAGING ANY OTHER JEW..how about going to your churches and mosques and b\'hai temples to bring back some LOST JEWS...How about making Torah teaches more exciting showing the history and trials and tribulations and hope and aspirations of TORAH ISRAEL HASHEM AND THE NATION.\n\nInstead you praise a undeserving woman as an example of Judaism when woman that are sacrificing their lifes their children to foward the education and welfare of HASHEMS HOLY NATION.\n\nNO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THE SMALLEST DETAIL OF ME \nAND ALL 200 RABBIS IN MY SEPHARDIC SYRIAN COMMUNITY ,not satmar as you ponce accused me of, do not accept converts since 1933 and every 5 years or so the re affirmation is signed all over and the israeli rabbis agreed to abide by our proclamtion that they will not marry any memeber of our community without consent from our BROOKLYN RABBIS.\n\nall this is according to halacha in spite of your ignorant readers claiming otherwise.\n\nno you dont have a clue. our assimilation rate our intermarrige rate is the lowest of all Jewish communities.\n our support of ISRAEL IS  unprecented in any Jewish community.Their is no other Jewish community that has as many buildings with our community memebers names on it from our money and TORAH SUPPORT. \n\nNO YOU DONT HAVE A CLUE LADY.\nDO NOT MAKE ALIYAH WITH THE SINS FROM THE OUTSIDE .\nDO NOT PREACH BECAUSE YOU ARE IN ISRAEL WHO VIOLATES MAYBE EVERY SIN THERE IS.\nTHE LAND IS HOLY\nWHAT ARE THE PEOPLE?\nIS RAISING PIGS BY JEWS HOLY?\nis slave trafficing holy\nis gangsterism holy\nis prostitution or drugs holy\nis prancing in a nude beach holy\nYour people have done this in \n61 years on GDS HOLY LAND.\nYOUR INTERMARRIGE RATE IS HORRIBLE, YOUR ASSIMLATION IS DISGUSTING\nYOUR FELLOW PREACHERS IS THE WORST.\n\nNO YOU DONT HAVE A CLUE.BEING ON HOLY GROUND WITH FILTH IS NOT WHAT KING DAVID OR MOSHE RABBEINU  HAD IN MIND.\n\nTHIS IS THE LAST POSTING\ni dont want to bring your ratings up to high  or else i would have to charge a commission ...\nyour arrogance to win is overwhelming your wisdom.\n\ntalk about hope and inspirations of the holy land\ntalk about the greatestness of our pro[ph3ets and scholars.\nthe buildres of israel\n\nWE KNOW THAT NO ONE IS PERFECT..EACH ONE TRIES TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY ..BUT TO SAY YOU TRY..AND LIE...HASHEM KNOWS IF *YOU REALLY TRIED...\n\nENJOY YOUR  RAH RAH GROUP THINK OR START A NEW PAGE TO HELP BRING MASHIACH THROUGH SELF IMPROVEMENTS\nTHROUGH MUSSAR\n\nMASHIACH WILL COME\nWILL WE DESERVE TO SEE?\n\nNO , YOU TAMAR DONT HAVE A CLUE...THE ESSENCE OF THE SHECHINAH HASNT ENTERED YOUR NOSTRILS YET.\n\nSTOP YOUR ARROGANCE \nAND BE A REAL LEADER TO AND FOR  HASHEM\n\nNO YOU DONT HAVE A CLUE \n...YET.....\nTHE ABILITY YES...\nREBBER SCHNEERSON SAID\n\'\'DO THE DEED\'\'\n\n\nTamar responds:  \nThank you for your comment.   ;-)\n\n");
AddReply(504322,"Shimon Gush Etzion","Meira Bat Yehuda","Jerusalem","10/15/09","Let this be an object lesson as to why I sometimes rant aobut being Sephardia. Your question shows the absolute suspicion under which we struggle to live as equals with the Ashkenazi domination of Israel.  Yes, Jews from the Middle East have Arabic names in some cases. Jews from China have Chinese names and Jews form Italy, like my parents, have Italian sounding names some of which go thru etymological changes for a variety of reasons. \nI mean is Koenigsberger (my husband\'s before his father Americanized it) a *Hebrew* name? Neither is Katz, Schwartz, or anything ending with berg, stein or witz. \nGrow up, please!");
AddReply(504282,"Dearest Dacon...","Malka","upstate NY","10/15/09","I always read your comments and do try to understand and usually find something worthy and support you, even if I might disagree.\n\nPerhaps in the case of Paula Abdul and others like her aren\'t perfect Jews (who is?) but wouldn\'t it be better to encourage their attempts at becoming more Torah obsverant? Wouldn\'t it be helpful to help them (and all of us) move from strength to strength?\n\nTake care:)\n\n\n");
AddReply(504268,"Thanks, Tamar","ROGER","MINNEAPOLIS, MN","10/15/09","It\'s hard to get past all the idiocy in this world.  THIS was a refreshment to a tired soul.  Thanks.");
AddReply(504256,"What Happened to the Comments?","Malka","upstate NY","10/15/09","I can see the comments on the other blog posts but the ones for this seem to have disappeared.\n\nComputer glitch or what?\n\n(Tamar says:  Malka, I see that there are at least 24 comments here already.  So I am not sure what you mean.)");
AddReply(504250,"NO TAMAR, YOU DONT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE WHERE I AM COMING FROM.","","........DACON9","10/15/09","RUTH SAID \n\'\'YOUR WAY IS MY WAY. YOUR PEOPLE ARE MY PEOPLE, YOURGD IS MY GD\'\'\n\nIF ONLY WE HAD RIGHTOUS CONVERTS LIKE RUTH TODAY.\n\nYOU ARE CORRECT\nMY COMMUNITY DOESNT ACCEPT CONVERTS TO POLLUTE THE NATION.\n\nNOT ONLY MUST YOU HAVE A RIGHTOS PERSON TO CONVERT..BUT YOU MUST FIND A RIGHTOUS RABBI  ALSO.\n\nNO TAMAR...\n\nI DONT DO THE LULAV AND ETROG ON THE TRAVELING SUKAH....\n\nI APOLOGIZE FOR WRITING TO YOU..\n\nNO YOU DONT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE.\nYOU CAN TAKE THE PERSON OUT OF HOLLYWOOD....BUT YOU CANT TAKE HOLLYWOOD OUT OF THE PERSON...\n\nTamar says:  As you yourself now admit, you do not accept converts, which again means, you would not have accepted Ruth the Moabite, and thus no King David.  Thank you for confirming this.");
AddReply(504217,"Thought Abdul was an Arabic name?","Shimon","Gush Etzion","10/15/09","Do some Jews from the Middle East have last names that sound like Arabic names?  Or did Paula Abdul originally have a last Jewish sounding name, but she changed it to a goyishe name?");
AddReply(504169,"Chabad does good all the time","hanina","","10/14/09","Despite the rebbe thing, which is upsetting to me,\nChabad always does good work. \nThey feed Jewish people in foreign countries, sponsor Shabbats, holiday programs, encourage Jewish people to return, and they are always cheerful and happy people to pray with.\nIf they appear to attach themselves to someone important, it just to bring one more Jew closer to Torah.\nFamily oriented people understand this concept.\nI say yeah to paula!\nMaybe Maria Shriver could seek protection from her angry husband at a Chabad house.\n ");
AddReply(504138,"FridayLight.org","Malka","upstate NY","10/14/09","For anyone (women) interested in lighting Shabbat candles, go to FridayLight.org.\n\nThey even have free starter kits (candles, instructions) to help you learn how to begin to celebrate Shabbat.");
AddReply(504101,"THANKS for the encouraging news","Elizabeth","NC","10/14/09","About how all these secular communities are asking for synagogues, etc!!  Would be so nice if such were more the case here in US.");
AddReply(504076,"Dacon once again proving he\'s a fool","Velvel","silver spring","10/14/09","How does a mother have  \"Jewish blood \" Dacon?   That means she is Jewish.   If Paula Abdul\'s mother is Jewish, Paula is Jewish.  No matter who she  \"dates. \"   \n\nWhy must you argue against it, because she doesn\'t wear tzniyus clothing?  Well she didn\'t grow up with that, but the fact that she is proud to be Jewish and lights candles and learns a little with Chabad is a huge thing for someone who was not raised in a ghetto like you were.\n\nYou\'re embarrassing, dude.");
AddReply(504052,"The TNT Show great Show.","Joseph A. Cleary","Sand Springs,","10/14/09","  A strange thing in that when I had your Radio station logo pop up on the screen a warning from the American government came up first. Fortunetly there\'s a little red X at the right hand side of the screen like there is with everything else.\nAll it said was that the material may not be suitable for listening or viewing. I didn\'t save it, I pressed the red X instead. All I thought was now you\'re trying to tell me what to think, no thanks.\n   Be Well.\nShalom, Shalom, Yosef of Ok.");
AddReply(503969,"ISRAEL IS A HOLY NATION WHERE EVER WE ARE","","....DACON9","10/14/09","AND WE *MUST SPEAK AND ACT LIKE A HOLY NATION\n\nAND TO FIND REPRESENTATIVES THAT ARE HOLY \n\nAND MAKE OTHERS LOOK AT US THE NATION OF ISRAEL\nAS HOLY PEOPLE TO LOOK TO LEARN AND TO BE LIKE.\n\nHOLLYWOOD IS NOT THE EXAMPLE.\n\nand if any of you wish to debate me on this....\nthen you have the wrong  ideas\n\nTO BE THE LIGHT TO THE NATIONS\nYOU MUST SHINE IN YOUR HEART AND SOUL\nAND LOOK TO IMPROVE YOURSELF WITH GOOD MENTORS.");
AddReply(503961,"MRS TAMAR,,IF YOU HOLD TO THE CHABAD, I DONT","",".....DACON9","10/14/09","THE OLD DAYS OF REBBE SCHNEERSON  \nARE LONG GONE\n\nWHAT GROUP DO YOU HOLD TO?\nTHE MOSHAICH NW GROUP \nOR THE LUBAVITCH ORIGINAL FOLLOWERS.\n\nPLEASE DONT SIMPLIFY THINGS\nENEOUGH QUESTIONS HAVE SURFACED ABOUT HER MOTHERS LINEAGE.\nENOUGH THAT SOME HAVE SAID \n\'\'HAS JEWISH ROOTS\'\'\n\nI DONT STRETCH THINGS TO MAKE  A ZEBRA INTO A HORSE.\n\nI REPEAT\nTHEY ARE MANY RIGHTOUS JEWISH WOMAN THAT DESERVE RECOGNITION IN TODAYS WORLD.\n\nNOT A WOMAN WHO NEVER MARRIED JEWISH \nAND NEVER DATES JEWISH.\nALL SHE DOES IS LIGHT CANDLES\nTHAT IS A DANGEROUS EXAMPLE OF WHAT A JEW IS.\n\nAND ITS MORE IMPORTANT TO SHOW THE PERSON AS THE FLAME OF TORAH\n\nTHEN A  BURNING ASHES OF  A PERVERTED SOCIETY THAT \npraises homosexuality and roman polansky\n\nWHEN DO OUR JEWISH LEADERS AND  WRITERS   STOP  WITH RATINGS AND START WITH \'\'TRUTH ABSOLUTE\'\'\n\nYOU ARE WANTING TO COMPETE WITH THE DIRTY SIDE.\nWHY?\nA FEW WEEKS AGO\n YOU SHOULD HAVE ASKED YOURSELF\n\'\'WHAT DIRECTION WILL YOU  TAMAR GO THIS YEAR?\'\'\n\nI BELIEVE ITS ENOUGH FILTH.\n IN THIS DANGEROUS UPSIDE DOWN WORLD.\n THERE IS ENOUGH OF \'GOOD\' BEING DONE THAT A SPOTLIGHT SHOULD BE SHOWN ON THE GOOD \nAND NOT MAKE MYTHS AND DISTORTIONS OF THE FILTH.\nPAULA ABDUL I SNOT A JEW AD no matter what\nis not an example of a JEW\nfor the above examples i brought out.\n\nshe would marry the pope if he would have her.  A DRUNK DATING CONTESTANTS AND/OR NON JEWS LIGHTS CANDLES\nAND PROPBABLY HAS BACON AND EGGS ON MATZAH DURING PASSOVER.\n\nFIND A REAL JEW TO PRAISE.\n\nTamar responds:  ok, DACON, I see where you are coming from... only YOUR type of Jew is Jewish, ...and you do not even accept converts.  In fact, you would have fought with Boaz and forbade him from marrying Ruth the Moabite, and then we wouldn\'t have had King David, so, ok,  yada yada yada all you like.  I see what ideology  you are coming from, and I remember now, you also prefer Brooklyn to Israel, so again, yada yada yada all you like....  <grin>");
AddReply(503930,"Sweet Post:)","Malka","upstate NY","10/14/09","I know you didn\'t want anything negative so hopefully this comment isn\'t negative but...why do people say/write about Jews  \"admitting \" they light shabbos candles or attend a shul as if they\'re admitting to it as if they\'re admitting they\'re committing a crime?\n\nAre people so ashamed of celebrating Shabbat or davening that they have to admit to it?\n\nProbably just semantics but I always wondered about that since I\'ve seen the word so often in connection with stories about Jews who  \"come out of the closet \" so to speak.\n\n");
AddReply(503921,"Psychologist","Miriam Adahan","Jerusalem","10/14/09","GREAT NEWS!  The emptiness eventually gets to them - it\'s either get drunk or get Torah.");
AddReply(503917,"Paula","Meira BY","Jerusalem","10/14/09","MiniBiography:\nPaula Julie Abdul was born on June 19th, 1963 in San Fernando, California.Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her mother is also Jewish and was born in Canada. Her parents have lived in Syria, Brazil, and Canada - and this varied background has contributed to incredibly different stories in the press about her nationality and/or religion. -Lyricsbird.com");
AddReply(503902,"Dacon, It says her mother is Jewish","David","Israel","10/14/09","Dacon, no where does it say that Paula is christian.  Paula herself also admits her Jewishness. Google her and you will see numerous sites stating this.  \n\nI also bring this to your attention:\n\n \"Paula Julie Abdul was born on June 9, 1962, in San Fernando, California. Her mother, Lorraine Rykiss, is a Jewish Canadian concert pianist and her father, Harry Abdul, is a Syrian-Brazilian orphan who was born to parents of Sephardic Jewish descent. Because of her Arabic surname, she is often mistakenly perceived as being of African-American or mixed-race descent. Her parents divorced when she was seven years of age and she and her older sister, Wendy, lived with their mother in the San Fernando Valley. \"");
AddReply(503900,"HaShem is at work","Barry Smith","Auckland, New Zealand","10/14/09","More and more Christians are perceiving (as I once did) that there is something that does not quite  \"square \" with their religion and are turning to the G-d of Israel. The Noahide movement is growing fast!\n\nIt is really great to see the priestly nation turning to HaShem also. ");
AddReply(503896,"Focusing on Light","Ashirah Yosefah Dror","Jerusalem","10/14/09","Yashar koach, Tamar.  This is an uplifting blog.  Brings to mind a favorite quote from Leonard Cohen:   \"Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.  That\'s how the Light gets in. \" \n\nTamar responds:  Yes, that is beautiful.  Thank you.  And we learn this as well from the imperfect \'relationships\' that the Moshiach stems from....  with Lot\'s daughters, Ruth ( from the Moabites), etc  In fact, some say, that a person who is a baal tshuva, (one who repented from their evil ways and moved close to G-d) is on a higher spiritual level than others who have always lived a righteous life.  This gives many \'hope\' that they too can leave their tainted past and reach great spiritual levels.  - Look at the convert, Ruth, who merited to have the Moshaich (Messiah) come from her, through King David!\nThank you Ashirah.");
AddReply(503889,"Let\'s keep this in perspective","Paul S.","Toronto, Canada","10/14/09","I am happy that Paula Abdul is embracing her Judaism.  That she is revealing this publicly is noteworthy.  She is under no obligation to do so.  There are many other Hollywood celebrities whose religious practices are kept private and are not shared with the public, which is their right.\nIn fact I would like more of Hollywood life to be kept private.  I am unhappy with the endless tales of personal woe and occasional scandals that crop up.  Every once in a while something truly depraved occurs that makes the general public shake their heads in disbelief.  I would like to see and \nhear less of celebrities\' politics and\nopinions on subjects they are not\nqualified to comment on.  I would \nlike to see celebrities stop using \ntheir fame as a  \"bully pulpit \".   I \nwould like to see more of an example of someone like golfer \nTiger Woods.  When asked to \ncomment on a political question,\nhe responded by saying that he \nwould not talk politics in public. \nAsk him about golf, that\'s fine, he said.  Ask him about sports in \ngeneral, o.k., but with a disclaimer\nthat other sports are not his specialty, other than golf.  But politics, or his choice of charities, \nno.  I gave Mr. Woods a great deal\nof respect for being true to his convictions.  If only more celebrities would do the same.  As for Paula Abdul, good for her.  But if she chose to keep her religious beliefs private, I would be fully understanding of that.\n");
AddReply(503877,"PROPHECY","CB","USA","10/14/09","The way I see it is the jews are fragmented, there is this kind of jew and that kind of jew. (example reform, conservative, and orthodox) With the building of the shuls and the mikvas is a clear indication of how close we are to the redemption. Right now there are many judaism under one G-D,  there should be one judaism under one G-D. \n\nAt the present time, any thing about israel, the question should be asked how does this relate to bible prophecy. (current events make a lot more sense this way)\n\nBEST WISHES (BE SAFE)\nCB  ");
AddReply(503831,"THERE ARE TO MANY RIGHTOUS JEWISH WOMAN TO PRAISE","","....DACON9","10/14/09","RATHER THEN REACH OUT TO THINGS THAT ONLY POLLUTE JUDAISM.\n\nMANY MANY GREAT WOMAN DOING MANY THINGS TO SERVE THE  \'\'ONE GD OF ISRAEL\'\'\'\n\nFIND THEM WRITE ABOUT THEM AND PRAISE THEM");
AddReply(503830,"WHY DOES A7 INSIST ON GLORIFYING FALSE HOODS","",".........DACON9","10/14/09","SHE ISNT JEWISH.\nHER MOTHER HAS SOME JEWISH BLOOD BUT IS NOT JEWISH\nSHE WAS EVER MARRIED TO A JEW\nSHE DOESNT DATE JEWS\n\nBECAUSE SHE LIGHTS CANDLES DOESNT MAKE HER A JEW.\n\nYOU CANT THINK OR FEEL YOU ARE A JEW UNLESS YOU ARE A JEW ACCORDING TO THE LAWS MOSES BROUGHT DOWN TO US .\n\nTHESE FALSEHOODS IS WHAT PERPETUATES THE MYTH THAT ALL ONE HAS TO DO IS EAT BAGELS AND LOX TO BE JEWISH..\n\nTO BE A JEW YOU HAVE TO SERVE \'GD AS BEST AS YOU COULD\'\'\n\nBEING AN\n\'\' ARCHEOLOGIST JEW\'\'\n BY VISITING MASADA DOESNT MAKE YOU A JEW...\n\nYOU HAVE TO LEARN WITH A TORAH OERHTODOX RABBI WHAT GD EXPECTS\nTHEN TRY TO DO IT\n\nJUDAISM IS QUALITY\nNOT QUANTITY\n\nSO TO CLOSE\nPAULA IS A NICE XTIAN LADY LIGHTING CANDLES THAT IS MEANINGLESS.....\n\n\nTamar responds:  Well DACON, according to different sources, she is Jewish.  See:  \n\n\n*Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic Jewish background and is a Syrian Jew. Her mother is also Jewish and was born in Canada.\n\n* Her mother: Lorraine Abdul, also Jewish born in Canada, former assistant to film director Billy Wilder.\n\n* Her father, a Syrian Jew, was born in Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the United States;[6] Abdul\'s mother, also Jewish, is originally from Saint Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, Canada.\n\n* Paula is a practicing Jew [20] and is proud of her Jewish heritage. She has said, \"Not many people know, but both my parents are Jewish, I am very excited about telling you this.\"  Abdul supports and loves Israel.\n\nSo, DACON, if you have PROOF she is not Jewish, you better tell her Chabad (Orthodox) Rabbi.\n");
AddReply(503816,"You\'re right, Tamar.","Sharon","Efrat","10/13/09","You\'re so right, Tamar. More people than ever are searching for spirituality. And it is up to those who already have faith and Torah, to guide and embrace these folks and help them along the path.");
AddReply(503764,"Well, Hanina...","yvonne","cary","10/13/09","I could not quite read what you are writing here. You see, I was born under the sign of the crab!! Or, the dog, if you want to go Chinese! In any case, I am happy with Tamar\'s blog as well as some others are. And just in time too, Tamar, because it could cost you if you are not positive. Birther queen Orly Taitz has been fined with a $ 20,000.-- sanction in Georgia, U.S.A. The better part of the slap on the wrist, though was the added comment of the judge.We do not want judges, the world over, to get bad impressions about us. After all, on this website, we are all jews.");
AddReply(503759,"L.A. Jewish celebs and tshuvah","Adam","Hispin","10/13/09","It\'s now becoming cool to learn Torah in L.A.  Many of the Jews involved in the TV/film industry are coming back to Torah - in their own way, of course.\n\nWhile it is unlikely that they will become anything that we might call  \"dati \" - their financial contributions and public endorsements help Jewish charities all over the world.");
AddReply(503734,"I agree.....","louise","j-m","10/13/09","What was once considered freedom from the mores and morals of a Puritan past is today beginning to be looked at differently.  Family, traditions, even G-d are once again coming to the fore.  The pendulum, after swinging as far as it can go to the left, perhaps is coming back towards the middle.");
AddReply(503726,"sea shells vs crabs:the quest for oceanic answers ","hanina","","10/13/09","You are either a pretty sea shell with a small helpless creature hiding within,\nunless somebody desires to make a lampshade out of you,\nor you are a nasty crab creeping along the beach determined to pinch or wrestle any creature in your path.\nOne usually sees more crabs at the beach because they are always in abundance,\nor baby shark eggs that entangle themselves amongst the weeds.\nbut a pretty sea shell is usually empty because they are too helpless to hide from flying birds.\nAre we predators looking to find meat?\nAre we dangerous fish hiding amongst the weeds?\nOr are we crabs carelessly moving along without momentum waiting for the tide to carry us back to the ocean?\nOr are we small innocent creatures hiding in our pretty shells praying for protection despite what flys overhead?");
AddReply(503693,"That was very special ...","Monica","Land O Lakes, FL","10/13/09","I am impresssed by Paula\'s transformation ... I truly wish that many others like her would follow her lovely example ...");
AddReply(503616,"Uplifting Blog!","","","10/13/09","Was very pleased to read about Paula Abdul and especially what\'s happening with many of the secular (some of them radical leftists) kibbutzim! As much as I pray daily for the geulah; while reading this blog, it came to my mind that maybe HaShem is working it slowly so that more and more Jews wake up and gives their pintele Yid  more time to come  through.  The world is on the precipice and practically everyone, Jew & non-Jew alike is feeling it.  We all understand something is in the airl, because everything is hitting bottom. So, the Jews are doing tshuva, each to his/her own capacity and HaShem is giving us all time to do better. But we pray that HaShem will have mercy on every Yid and all the righteous of the world and already hasten the Geulah with Moshiach Tzdkeinu! By the way, about Madonna, there I think you might be mistaken.  There\'s something not right about it. I think she\'s part of this NWO with it\'s new age ideology. This is what they\'re going for - to make a new world religion, with our Jerusalem as its center. It\'s a mixture of some kind of phony Judaism to blend in with their avodah zarah. The Vatican is probably behind it all, who knows!");

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