Comments on The Hazzn's Tish: What a strange article

Blackherring: To what extent is Neusner still asso...

2006-02-08T16:18:00.000-05:00

Blackherring: To what extent is Neusner still associated with the Conservative Movement? He casts an awfully unflattering light on it in other parts of the article, and in ways other than those in which movement members tend to do so.

Mom: I wondered the same thing. Bard is not known for its attacks on liberals or liberalism. My decision not to apply there was heavily motivated by my reluctance to be defined contextually as a right wing lunatic.

Elf: You're right about the headline. I guess I ought to be irritated at some Jerusalem Post staffer for that one.

I agree with your assessment of the article, but h...

2006-01-31T10:32:00.000-05:00

I agree with your assessment of the article, but he probably didn't write the headline.

I must say that, for starters, I was mightily piss...

2006-01-25T14:05:00.000-05:00

I must say that, for starters, I was mightily pissed off while reading this article which contains so many untruths and misconceptions about everyone-other-than-Orthodox Jews. I belong to a Reform synagogue where they had to start a separate Saturday morning service many years ago because so many congregants actually wanted to pray, rather than sit in on a bar mitzvah where the "congregation" was mostly Jewishly uneducated and couldn't participate. And our services aren't even predominantly English. That article is one continuous piece of misinformation. However, I read it assuming that the writer was a native Israeli or long-ago transplant, spouting the kinds of biased misinformation I'm sure many religious Israelis believe about American Jews. When I got to the bottom and saw that this man lives in New York State and is a college professor no less, I was blown away. Is the Jerusalem Post consistently this right-leaning? And when did Bard start hiring narrow-minded professors???
Love, Mom

My goodness. One does rather wonder, if CJ is losi...

2006-01-24T21:51:00.000-05:00

My goodness. One does rather wonder, if CJ is losing members in droves to RJ, whether he has any right to be quite so dismissive about RJ's distinguishing features. Except of course that if he wasn't vaguely and inaccurately dismissive, he wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Sigh. My Talmud professor put it rather nicely: "Neusner used to have so much authority."