While I’m not Jewish, I am circumcised, and my step sister’s first husband was Jewish, and we still like him better than her. Thus, if you need scab labor on this project, I’ll try to convince my wife that it’s community service for a DUI arrest I didn’t tell her about
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I can confirm for you that Europe as we have known her will soon be gone forever. There were places in Vienna, Austria that, on any given Sunday, were more like downtown Istanbul on a Friday. Mark Steyn and others have this phenomenon pegged pretty well, I think. Oddly enough, though, Venice, which I visited on Spring Break, seemed to have the usual smattering of Europeans, Canadians, Americans, and Orientals (more Chinese these days, versus Korean or Japanese), and that was surprising enough. Centuries of Turkischer campaigning and not even a Kebap stand on Piazza de San Marco? The only thing that may save Europe from itself will be, strangely enough, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, i.e. some of which spent quite a few centuries under Moslem rule back in the day. They are also aware of what the US has meant to the overarching tide of World History, whereas their more “educated” cousins further West seem to be blind to the same.

Second point: Total affirm to the need for Yiddish procreation NOW! That being said, I think we can expect a demographic shift towards the Orthodox/Traditional in the next little while. Why? I give you three couples, Evan & Linda (Reform), Simon & Jeffrey (VERY Reform), and Moishe & Chava (Orthodox). Evan & Linda love their planet, their dogs, and their two kids, Sue and Nathan. However, they only go to Synagogue the dreaded Three Days, Linda cooks a mean porkchop, and the kids are enrolled in everything except Religious School. Either or both Sue and Nathan more likely will marry outside their faith, or may even convert. Simon & Jeffrey will obviously never have kids from natural childbirth, and are probably more concerned with getting their “right” to marry than whether or not Israel will survive another year. On the other hand, Moishe & Chava will probably hold to Piru V’rivu (i.e. be fruitful and multiply) have anywhere from 5 to 10 children (Levi-Yitzchak, Menachem-Mendel, Vered, Avraham, Miriam, etc.) who will be schooled in their faith and will generally stick with it, and even if they don’t, most of their siblings will. Bottom-line, who stands a better chance of being here in some form 50, 60 years down the line to determine what Judaism will mean or be? Evan & Linda, Simon & Jeffrey, or Moishe & Chava?

Lastly, Meine Chaver, get thee to JDate, JPeopleMeet, etc. if you can’t find her before you; it’d be a shame not to pass on some of that writin’ gene you clearly possess. Shadchans can be a good thing, or haven’t you seen “Crossing Delancey”?

I am trying to put links that are more in line with my overall theme on my front page, so I couldn’t put you there…

You are definitely passionate about politics and religion, and not in that horrible - kill anything that moves way. (At least not that I can tell, but I didn’t read all of your blog entries either. Hummm.) Well, at any rate I find that refreshing.

Unfortunately your theme doesn’t fit on my front page. But your writing style is so uniqueI had to put you somewhere. So I created a page called “Zoo of Blogs” where people can come and visit my collection of interesting people. What can I say? It’s the artist in me. I am a painter. So why not own a zoo? Somehow it all makes sense.

Come back and look. See you around and keep in touch.

Lacey

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