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Ah, 24 hours before the beginning of Rosh Hoshanah, and of course the “Jewish” Journal’s God Blog is writing about the beginning of the High Holiday…............oh, that’s funny, the blog is about a Christian Church and the Koran ............maybe that’s because the “Jewish” Journal is written by a Christian?  So euchmenical, so liberal, thank you “Jewish” Journal for not hiring a Jew to write your column on religion (a Jew would be so parochial).  When 30 years from now we are down to a million or so Jews, almost all Orthodox, those of us still around can tell our grandkids that thanks to the “Jewish” Journal and other Jewish non believers (other than in bagels and the cult of liberalism), we committed mass suicide in the early part of the 21st century.  Goodbye Jews, it was nice to know you.

Comment by george on 9/07/10 at 5:14 pm

“George”—I had a short post about Rosh Hashanah last week, and wasn’t done writing about the High Holidays. As you know, this is not an ecumenical blog, but it is a general religion blog. That means the topics covered dive into various religions. And if it makes you more comfortable, here is a post I wrote two years ago about when I celebrated Yom Kippur. Shana tova.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 9/07/10 at 6:43 pm

This is obviously a pushback on the issue of the Ground Zero mosque, and in my opinion one that is being deliberately provoked by the sponsors and supporters of the mosque.

And while I agree that both of these are provocative and neither should proceed, everyone who has been bloviating for the past few weeks about the rights and the principles and the lessons of the Ground Zero mosque needs to shut up about the Koran burning ceremony, from the President and the Secretary of State and the Chief of Staff on down.

And it’s not as if Muslim militants did not urinate on the walls of the Church of the Nativity or take pickaxes to the Tomb of Joseph and burn the holy books within it or vandalize the Tomb of Samuel and the Mount of Olives or throw rocks down upon worshiping Jews at the Western Wall plaza.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 9/07/10 at 9:20 pm

was it insane when those orthodox jews burned new testaments?

it’s certainly not very diplomatic.  deliberately offensive, in fact.  but, it’s got to be tolerated.  because we simply cannot live with a people that riots every time someone offends their religion.  on the one hand, i think it’s wrong for Grizzard to be doing this.  but on the other, i almost feel as though it has to be done.  because muslims must learn tolerance.  how can we live with them if they don’t ?

Comment by Proton Soup on 9/07/10 at 10:17 pm

Indeed, I was thinking after I hit publish that a better headline punchline would have been “Ill-conceived, not illegal.”

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 9/07/10 at 10:30 pm

I’m glad that little snippet was revived. You would have to scour dozens of centuries to find Orthodox Jews burning any books at all, let alone others’ holy books. It’s not our thing. It doesn’t characterize us. Without the context that these bibles were not burnt as an initiative in intolerance but as a pushback against a religious assault by outsiders on a large homogeneous Israeli Orthodox community engaged in minding its own business, the example is deceptive. We know you guys have a Great Commission, but we consider that to be your problem, not ours.

Is there a policy at the Jewish Journal requiring putting down Jews and using the throwing the Orthodox under the bus as scapegoats? I find myself repeatedly making the point that Jews in general and in direct proportion to their Orthodoxy are more better and less worse than any other defined religious group. My new motto on that point is the now immortal line from Yosef Robinson - “...keep in mind that while the Torah is flawless people are not”. However, anyone committed to the Torah personally or even culturally is that much more humane and morally advanced. In a world where black Sudanese animists are machine gunned from government helicopters and raped en masse, is ours the only example you can find of intolerance? In that regard, your current article ‘A Jewish apology to the world’ makes me hurl.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 9/11/10 at 9:42 pm

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