Comments for MoreTorah.com http://www.moretorah.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:57:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 Comment on Clapton Jewish? by Tasha http://www.moretorah.com/2008/04/02/clapton-jewish/#comment-44496 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:41:53 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2008/04/02/clapton-jewish/#comment-44496 Well, he's definitely jewish. Well, he’s definitely jewish.

]]> Comment on And the cradle will rock by Scotty L. http://www.moretorah.com/2007/08/21/and-the-cradle-will-rock/#comment-43470 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:11:20 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2007/08/21/and-the-cradle-will-rock/#comment-43470 Eddie, was, and still IS THE MAN!!! He's had his ups and downs, but his downs are better than the average players ups... Saw him on the last tour 4 times, he was UNBELIEVABLE!!! Jummy page has NOTHING on him... Eddie, was, and still IS THE MAN!!! He’s had his ups and downs, but his downs are better than the average players ups… Saw him on the last tour 4 times, he was UNBELIEVABLE!!! Jummy page has NOTHING on him…

]]> Comment on No More Daylight Savings Time by jessica http://www.moretorah.com/2008/10/31/no-more-daylight-savings-time/#comment-43062 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:24:14 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2008/10/31/no-more-daylight-savings-time/#comment-43062 I'm not trying to make anyone angry, just curious. Why wouldn't you be able to pray in the morning? If you are gettting up at a certain time to pray every day, why is it any different when the clocks switch? It's still the same hour, just something the body gets used to again. Not too terribly hard if you go to sleep a tad bit early. I dont know a whole lot about the Jewish religion, but does it have something to do with a specific time kind of thing? I’m not trying to make anyone angry, just curious. Why wouldn’t you be able to pray in the morning? If you are gettting up at a certain time to pray every day, why is it any different when the clocks switch? It’s still the same hour, just something the body gets used to again. Not too terribly hard if you go to sleep a tad bit early. I dont know a whole lot about the Jewish religion, but does it have something to do with a specific time kind of thing?

]]> Comment on My Visit to Jimi’s Grave by lennydupont http://www.moretorah.com/2009/05/13/my-visit-to-jimis-grave/#comment-41712 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:35:46 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2009/05/13/my-visit-to-jimis-grave/#comment-41712 thanx. amazing moment im sure. thank you for sharing. thanx. amazing moment im sure. thank you for sharing.

]]> Comment on My beard, the saga continues by Yeruchom http://www.moretorah.com/2008/07/28/my-beard-the-saga-continues/#comment-39082 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:24:53 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2008/07/28/my-beard-the-saga-continues/#comment-39082 I just found this web page and read through - I think your beard was great and I hope you grew it back! I always struggle with this, being pressured from others to shave, but I've been able to resist for a good amount of time now. Kol hakavod! I just found this web page and read through - I think your beard was great and I hope you grew it back! I always struggle with this, being pressured from others to shave, but I’ve been able to resist for a good amount of time now. Kol hakavod!

]]> Comment on Shwarma conclusion by Nils http://www.moretorah.com/2006/06/26/shwarma-conclusion/#comment-38076 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:11:05 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2006/06/26/shwarma-conclusion/#comment-38076 I always feel so sorry for the Jews who lost so much of their own culture and culinary traditions throughout their 2000 year exile that in modern times they had to resort to copying arabs and other middle eastern cultures in order to even begin to have anything like native cuisine in Israel. Hummus is THE dish of the Palestinians, tabbouleh is Lebanese without a doubt and shawarma originated with the turks and then was spread by them throughout the middle east (turkish-shvarmek-to rotate) Falafel is also clearly an arab dish of the eastern med, especially if made with garbanzo beans rather than fava, as in Egypt. It's not even eaten in other parts of the mid east. I've eaten at the table of Jews in Tunisia, Turkey, and with Iranian and Iraqi jews and they basically adopted the local cuisine and what was truly Jewish and unique the other people in those countries did not normally make or eat, as in Matza for western jews or challah bread or certain types of couscous and fricasses from Djerba, Tunisia. Recently I heard of a Palestinian Debka group that through good will agreed to train and dance with an Israeli group in order to foster peace and understanding. Then how were they repaid? Years on that same group began to promote Debka as the National dance of Israel, even using the same name. Granted there is much in common among debka and the other step dances of turkey, kurdistan, greece and the balkans' however, why did the jews have to stoop to such dissambling. they've got lots of smart folks in archeology and history and such. Couldn't they have recollected some parts of their own dance style and revived it. Or better yet, if the Jews could just finally admit that the only other semites in the world are arabs and accept the fact that they are linguistic, cultural and genetic cousins and heal the rift they created in their victimized minds as an attempt to compensate for their murder at the hands of the European nazi's russians and spanish, then maybe then, it wouldn't be sooo bad that Israelis had to steal/adopt arab food and dance as their own. It's pitiful really. if only they had learned the lesson they have failed to learn in all their persecutions! I always feel so sorry for the Jews who lost so much of their own culture and culinary traditions throughout their 2000 year exile that in modern times they had to resort to copying arabs and other middle eastern cultures in order to even begin to have anything like native cuisine in Israel. Hummus is THE dish of the Palestinians, tabbouleh is Lebanese without a doubt and shawarma originated with the turks and then was spread by them throughout the middle east (turkish-shvarmek-to rotate) Falafel is also clearly an arab dish of the eastern med, especially if made with garbanzo beans rather than fava, as in Egypt. It’s not even eaten in other parts of the mid east. I’ve eaten at the table of Jews in Tunisia, Turkey, and with Iranian and Iraqi jews and they basically adopted the local cuisine and what was truly Jewish and unique the other people in those countries did not normally make or eat, as in Matza for western jews or challah bread or certain types of couscous and fricasses from Djerba, Tunisia. Recently I heard of a Palestinian Debka group that through good will agreed to train and dance with an Israeli group in order to foster peace and understanding. Then how were they repaid? Years on that same group began to promote Debka as the National dance of Israel, even using the same name. Granted there is much in common among debka and the other step dances of turkey, kurdistan, greece and the balkans’ however, why did the jews have to stoop to such dissambling. they’ve got lots of smart folks in archeology and history and such. Couldn’t they have recollected some parts of their own dance style and revived it. Or better yet, if the Jews could just finally admit that the only other semites in the world are arabs and accept the fact that they are linguistic, cultural and genetic cousins and heal the rift they created in their victimized minds as an attempt to compensate for their murder at the hands of the European nazi’s russians and spanish, then maybe then, it wouldn’t be sooo bad that Israelis had to steal/adopt arab food and dance as their own. It’s pitiful really. if only they had learned the lesson they have failed to learn in all their persecutions!

]]> Comment on The New Book! by Pete Waters http://www.moretorah.com/2009/04/17/the-new-book/#comment-35605 Wed, 27 May 2009 01:01:43 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2009/04/17/the-new-book/#comment-35605 Got it, read it, excellent, funny, i am your new fan, i am old, and a wannabe Jew, great insights, candid, true, beautiful, kerouac, ginsburg, malcolm x, the road, the search for 'it', i said this is a rabbi i could talk to...oh yeah, i am from new jersey and am not and never have been a springsteen fan, Dylan is another story! Anyhow, Thanks, i thoroughly enjoyed the book, even read the acknowledgments and endorsements, a great gift to me in my exile. Pete Waters Medellin Colombia PS i spent a week in Israel in February, i long to return. Got it, read it, excellent, funny, i am your new fan, i am old, and a wannabe Jew, great insights, candid, true, beautiful, kerouac, ginsburg, malcolm x, the road, the search for ‘it’,
i said this is a rabbi i could talk to…oh yeah, i am from new jersey and am not and never have been a springsteen fan, Dylan is another story! Anyhow, Thanks, i thoroughly enjoyed the book, even read the acknowledgments and endorsements, a great gift to me in my exile.
Pete Waters
Medellin Colombia
PS i spent a week in Israel in February, i long to return.

]]> Comment on My Visit to Jimi’s Grave by Maria http://www.moretorah.com/2009/05/13/my-visit-to-jimis-grave/#comment-35415 Fri, 22 May 2009 19:54:54 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2009/05/13/my-visit-to-jimis-grave/#comment-35415 Tzvi, I take it you are not a kohen; otherwise, you would not be able to visit the graves of these celebrities :-) Tzvi, I take it you are not a kohen; otherwise, you would not be able to visit the graves of these celebrities :-)

]]> Comment on The New Book! by Lena http://www.moretorah.com/2009/04/17/the-new-book/#comment-35234 Wed, 13 May 2009 20:21:38 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2009/04/17/the-new-book/#comment-35234 Buying this book will be my first order of business as soon as I get home today. Can't wait to get it! Buying this book will be my first order of business as soon as I get home today. Can’t wait to get it!

]]> Comment on 99% Cacao baby by Eliza from the Boston trip 3-4 years ago http://www.moretorah.com/2008/10/12/99-cacao-baby/#comment-35108 Sun, 10 May 2009 18:25:42 +0000 http://www.moretorah.com/2008/10/12/99-cacao-baby/#comment-35108 Rabbi Tzvi! This is genius! I have been a 99% chocolate fanatic for many years now. My brand of choice is Scharfenberger, which recentlly received kosher hecture. I think it's wonderful that red wine, dark chocolate, green tea, and so many of life's finest pleasures are really health foods in moderate quantities. Yay! And at the risk of exposing myself as a food nerd: Evaporated cane juice is just relativey healthier sugar - the raw sugar cane just was evaporated, and what's left is sugar cane with all the molasses and natural vitamins etc. left intact. Also, if you come back to Jerusalem anytime soon it would be an honor for me and my husband to buy you a shwarma or just offer you a proper - caffeinated - organic coffee at our little place in Nachlaot. All the best, Eliza Who Was the Oldest Girl on the Boston Trip 3-4 years ago Rabbi Tzvi! This is genius! I have been a 99% chocolate fanatic for many years now. My brand of choice is Scharfenberger, which recentlly received kosher hecture. I think it’s wonderful that red wine, dark chocolate, green tea, and so many of life’s finest pleasures are really health foods in moderate quantities. Yay!

And at the risk of exposing myself as a food nerd: Evaporated cane juice is just relativey healthier sugar - the raw sugar cane just was evaporated, and what’s left is sugar cane with all the molasses and natural vitamins etc. left intact.

Also, if you come back to Jerusalem anytime soon it would be an honor for me and my husband to buy you a shwarma or just offer you a proper - caffeinated - organic coffee at our little place in Nachlaot.

All the best,
Eliza Who Was the Oldest Girl on the Boston Trip 3-4 years ago

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