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 Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:45 pm
kallo 15 in Israel it's not really hard even if you Shomer all the thing that have.
most of the restaurant are Kosher,and if not,the percet that the restaurant near is Kosher very high xd
in Shabat,because i'm Shomeret,i hang out only with ppl who are Shomrim and that not so dificult. See that would work? If I knew anyone else who was even slightly Shomer in the area. Besides my family, they don't count.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:12 am
Kiashana Old? I'm not old! I'm not even 16 yet! *hides the ring* Ok...back onto subject. I will try not to b***h, but being a Jew is hard. You have the ignorant people who accuse you of killing Jesus or of going against God's word, the attention-whore like Maddana who start going after Kaballha just for shits and giggles, and all the temptations. Still, thats how its suposed to be, isnt it? Personally, I don't want to float through life. I want to have to kick my feet a little to keep my head above the water, in a maner of context. One thing I would like to change, though, are those damned Evangelical Christians who start quoting random passages from their Bible and twisting it around to sound like a personal order from God for you to convert. People like that need to grow the ******** up and realise that we don't 'believe' what they believe, and they can't make us. For clarification's sake, I have nothing against other religions, just those individuals who try to push 'em on us. Also, I feel the need to touch on our lack of recruits. Juadism (oh, thats pathetic. I can't even spell my own religion. xp ) has never been about recruiting non-Jews. Where do you think the tradition of turning converts away for the first and second times came from? We don't force our religion on anyone, just make it visable and reachable for those that wish to. Inherantly, we won't have as high of a quota as the Evangelicals, but we will certainly have higher quality.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:59 pm
Quality over quantity. I like, I like.
Makes it seem like Jews are the Mom and Pop stores to the Christian's Wal-Mart.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:54 pm
Amitzah Quality over quantity. I like, I like. Makes it seem like Jews are the Mom and Pop stores to the Christian's Wal-Mart. I like that too. The only problem is that I shop at big ol' chain stores, so the analogy makes me feel bad. But I can't help it! It's Target! You can find everything you need for a summer at Jew Camp at Target!
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:32 pm
Kiashana Amitzah Quality over quantity. I like, I like. Makes it seem like Jews are the Mom and Pop stores to the Christian's Wal-Mart. I like that too. The only problem is that I shop at big ol' chain stores, so the analogy makes me feel bad. But I can't help it! It's Target! You can find everything you need for a summer at Jew Camp at Target! >.< Getting back on topic now... Yea, I'm going to expand on what I typed a few posts up. Most, and I say MOST, Evangelical Christian Recruits are recruited out of their own weakness. The general thing said is "If you don't believe in Jesus, your going to hell!" The most general recruits' response is "Well, gee. Hell is bad, right? Ok, cool, I belive in Jesus." Its a fear thing, telling the person they are going to suffer unless they join whatever paticular religion you are promoting. In Judiasm, we don't recruit. We let the recruits come to us. This helps establish the fact that there is generally, and I say GENERALLY, an intelligent person stepping forward, not one who will change his or her moral convitions because of another religion's threat.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:05 pm
Tsuto We don't force our religion on anyone, just make it visable and reachable for those that wish to. Inherantly, we won't have as high of a quota as the Evangelicals, but we will certainly have higher quality. That's exactly how we bring it down. Bravo.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:54 pm
It is really hard living in a place where most people think there arn't any jews. Our community is really small. The hardest thing here is keeping the shabbath and keeping kosher (hardly anyone does). No kosher shops anywhere. I personally try to keep kosher as much as I can but it is really hard not to go and do things on the shabbath.
What really pisses me off is one of my friends. She knows three jews in total (me included) and from this she has concluded that most jews don't give a s**t about religion. She has no idea how hard it is to be a jew here. To me she takes great pleause in knowing this (I might add she's lutheren). scream She is a nice person but this is one of my great annoyences about her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:10 pm
hit_the_floor It is really hard living in a place where most people think there arn't any jews. Our community is really small. The hardest thing here is keeping the shabbath and keeping kosher (hardly anyone does). No kosher shops anywhere. I personally try to keep kosher as much as I can but it is really hard not to go and do things on the shabbath. What really pisses me off is one of my friends. She knows three jews in total (me included) and from this she has concluded that most jews don't give a s**t about religion. She has no idea how hard it is to be a jew here. To me she takes great pleause in knowing this (I might add she's lutheren). scream She is a nice person but this is one of my great annoyences about her. A lot of people are like that, doesn't really matter what religion they are. I have a friend who adamantly believes that all Christians are televangelists. Have you tried talking to her about it, telling her that's not how it really is?
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:41 am
Well, as far as being a Jew: It can be tough, especially about food. My mother doesn't believe in it, so she'll make ham and cream sauce with nary a pause. I've never actually gone Kosher, so I can't say anything about it. On the other hand, we don't go to services anymore because my parent's can't stand my rabbi. I remember, five or six years ago, going every week. Now I'm lucky to get in on the major holidays. My mom tells me that when I can drive, I can go, but since I can't drive...
It really sucks.
On the subject of evangelism: As far as I know, Jews did evangelise until the Romans wrote a law saying anyone who converted would be killed. So, that came to an end.
And as for intermarriage: my one requirement for anyone I date or marry is that they have to be willing to convert for me. My child is going to grow up Jewish.
Elena
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 8:35 am
elenathehun On the subject of evangelism: As far as I know, Jews did evangelise until the Romans wrote a law saying anyone who converted would be killed. So, that came to an end. Do you have some kind of source for that? I could just be completely in the dark, but I've never heard that.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:56 am
the Jew's religion very hard,even in Israel.
i haerd something in the radio that most of the Jews who don't live in Israel mary to christian (they Mitbolelim).
in most of the workplace in USA the ppl work in Shabat day,if Jew work in this place he have to work in Shabat,if not he lose hes job.
the Jews prefer not to be 'Jew' out from their house.
i don't know if it true or not,it only what i heard from the radio.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:56 pm
kallo 15 the Jew's religion very hard,even in Israel.
i haerd something in the radio that most of the Jews who don't live in Israel mary to christian (they Mitbolelim).
in most of the workplace in USA the ppl work in Shabat day,if Jew work in this place he have to work in Shabat,if not he lose hes job.
the Jews prefer not to be 'Jew' out from their house.
i don't know if it true or not,it only what i heard from the radio. It's easier to have Shabbat off from work if a person owns their own business or has Friday-Saturday as their off days. Not many people can work their schedule like that, though. And there are quite a few Jew-Christian marriages. My Havorah was started by families who had only one Jewish parent. Sometimes the spouse converts, sometimes they don't.
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:45 am
elenathehun And as for intermarriage: my one requirement for anyone I date or marry is that they have to be willing to convert for me. My child is going to grow up Jewish. Elena I hope you mean they have to be willing to convert to Judasim for the religion and not you. We can't force people to do things because they love us, they should convert for the love of the religion or else it is a pointless endeavour.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:57 am
kallo 15 the Jew's religion very hard,even in Israel. i haerd something in the radio that most of the Jews who don't live in Israel mary to christian (they Mitbolelim). i don't know if it true or not,it only what i heard from the radio. Yes that is true. Not all Jews, but a lot of diaspora Jews do because they lose intrest in Judaism.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:31 pm
I've always kept kosher and have never had trouble with it. Everyone always says it's difficult, but since I was raised to not eat meat outside of my home or other kosher places, or to mix meat and milk, or to eat non-kosher meat, i find it fairly simple.
I don't even know what pork tastes like. eek
I'm not shomer shabbat, but my family has never found that important. We've always teetered between conservative and reformed. I go to services every saturday... (then again, I'm "forced" to. With the rest of the family.) and enjoy it.
It seems like in this day and age, religious observance is dropping in all religions. We just notice it more because we're small to begin with. In an age where science answers everything, it's very difficult to keep faith in something that might or might not exist with no proof.
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