Today I’m told there’s a larger, more pluralistic attitude, that there could, perhaps, be different faces of the same God. But to the point of this article, I think that you make a good argument, and that we would do well to un-conflate faith and race, and examine our prejudices about both.

And this cuts both ways: there’s a groundswell of support for a very materialistic sort of atheism at the moment. Inherent in that is a scornful dismissal of people of any faith, as if belief in anything beyond a scientifically reducible world is childish and imbecilic (though this insistence on science as the ultimate lowest common denominator is usually held by non-scientists; those at its outer reaches communicate with far more wonder and openness, and far less certainty).

Faith only becomes a problem when it insists itself upon others, when it shifts from the personal realm and starts seeking conversion, unchallenged acceptance, empire. As the professor said above, at least race is free from proseltysation.

FInnegan (paw print)

The Jewish prophets seem to be quite accurate.

Great math!

You know Hamas and Hezbollah also have quite a few MD’s on their team, your silliness knows no bounds..

So everyone who disagrees with you is draconian?
Because we disagree with Shmuly and hence ban his book, we’re draconian?

Your a typical liberal lefty.. Everybody and everything must have its time of day, right? Wrong! That’s Liberalism, NOT Judaism!
As M. “Savage” says: “liberalism is a mental disorder”!

The Torah has ZERO tolerance for Avoda Zoroh and Minnus, I’m talking about the ancient Torah, the ever-present eternal Torah, not the DEformed Moses Mendelson/Spinoza Torah. There are no more Mendelson’s, why? Because reformists (or rather deformist’s) eventually assimilate.

Religiously observant Jews believe in the Torah, and the Torah is more than Tikkun Olam, (an expression that’s about the only 2 hebrew words reform kids learn if they go to a Jewish day school). Some deformist picked up on 2 words, distorted them, and those are the only 2 words they preach.. What happened to the rest of the Torah/Talmud? Oh i forgot, that’s for the cave men!

Oh my, as I’m writing this now, i decided to Google you, as Iv’e never heard of you before (somehow i just stumbled upon your article). Now, when i read your past (Kfar Chabad…), I’m like uh oh, why did i just waste my time.. delete the whole thing, but Iv’e come to the conclusion that your so many years in your hole, that you’ve long lost your way..

So getting back to Shmuly, I don’t understand your problem. There are Rabbis, Rabbi Shuchat, a man who knows the “new testament” inside out, a man who actually read Shmully’s book, has given a Psak Din that we may not buy or read this book, period.

What’s so bad about that, it’s not open enough for you?
You expected that in Kfar Chabad you should be reading brit chadash and they will give you a pat on the back?

My friend, realize that the Shulchan Aruch forbids one to read certain subjects, so what is so “draconian” if the Rabbi’s determine that a certain book goes inti that category?
If you believe it’s the Shulchan Aruch that’s draconian then I guess we all are, and there’s no hope, because then by orthodox by the very definition are draconian, because the shulchan arukh is!
So we’re a lost case..

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Scrolling through your blog, I see the way you write about the Israel “Chareidim situation”, and you do the typical thing all the Chilonim media do, you paint the whole Chareidi population as making
“-A ban on mannequins.
-The Personal Mechitza, which is a small partition Haredi Jews wear around their heads when travelling on El Al Airlines. The PM prevents Haredim from gazing at the lovely El Al Stewardesses. It comes in only one color: black.
Women must sit at the back of the bus!
-How to attack Modern Orthodox girls walking to elementary school.
-How to attack wheelchair bound children on Shabbat!”

I call that hate speech, taking what a few meshugoyim do, and painting everyone else with that is a crime. This is waaay worse than anything you said vis-a-vis the Boteach book. For this alone I consider you to be a Chareidi-hater anti semite!
No, I won’t ever call you nazi, but i can see you drawing very similar cartoons portraying religious Jews, you wouldn’t hesitate one bit. It seems like you have some deep seated hatred from your youth that won’t go away.

I still love you!

Thank you for your comments! Yes, he did visit Iran which hopefully will be another story.

Also I am a great admirer of this Queen. Learn about my book: Alexandra Salome the Queen of the Jews-ed. Barauna
Is the sale. Query on Google.

I only just saw your article now and just wantd to let you know we had a beautiful, fairlytale wedding in Zoagli , Italy. In one of our wedding pictures taken on the promenade of Zoagli, we are seated and in the background you can see the Pacific Princess in Portofino Harbour. I thought it was quite amazing to have it there on that day, at that precise time, considering that this is where our loves story started!

Regards,
Dr Nadine Blakeway

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I would like to know if ‘Inside Hana’s Suitcase’ Dvd is available in a
Region 4 format for viewing by Austraian audiences please.I have the
documentary saved to my hard drive, but would like to share the story
and wonderful documentary with others.I reside in Australia and cannot
view Region 1 dvd’s on my player, and to date I have only seen the dvd
available in this regional format.Hoping someone may be able to assist
me. Thanking you.
Erika Gray

Kol tov
E.

This is sad and pathetic. Great story, but sad that the grandfather here did not have a big enough heart to reach out and show love and compassion to the other man. Whatever happened to Jewish compassion, in this story? It’s telling, if you think this is a good story. It’s pathetic. Grandpa should have invited the man home too and over the Passover seder. What has happened to some Jews today that they think THEY can do this kind of inhumane action to even other Jews? Ouch!

She has been working for me for 12 yrs now for fibromyaglia chronic fatigue immune disease (CFID) and all the health issues that accompany this challenging disease. . She woke me up at 6 months old letting me know I needed help and to go the hospital. Can you believe it she was just puppy/pet at the time. That moment was the beginning of a life long companion.
She knows when any parts of body will be affected by the fibromyalgia. She is sensitive to the CFID, migraines, when false appendicitis attacks that I get and so much more…

Today she has her own wheels now as she is in her senior years and still remains steadfast companion. she now owns her own wheels a stroller /trailer. Hayliegh likes to catch the wind as I pull her around Lake Murray and she catches the wind.

Thank you for your and a woof! To Finnegan from Hayliegh

Hi Dan,

Thank you for this information. I will pass this onto the Reuters editorial
team.
Have a good weekend.

Best wishes,
Jo, Reuters desk NYC

To Don Harrison:

Your thoughtful review is on target (including Ark instead of Arch — aaaargh!). I hope you found the novel interesting, but I must admit that I set forth to make the three main characters “nice guys” rather than the kind of clownish mess the current GOP candidates are displaying. Fundamentally, my point is that we won’t get far in addressing or solving our major problems or challenges in our nation today unless we first fix our political system. And that won’t be done by tweeking around the edges. If an Independent were elected president, every right-winger and left-winger in the House and Senate would know it could happen to them in their districts or states. With that kind of pressure, there might be more who, in their own political self-interest, might become part of the solution instead of continuing to be part of the problem. Ah! I’m an optimist; “nice guys” don’t always finish last.

Cheers!
Dixon

[...]always a big fan of linking to bloggers that I love but don’t get a lot of link love from[...]…

”An interesting angle on climate change that hadn’t occurred to me.”
”

1. This poor shlock must just have crawled out from his cave and.
missed the whole Global Warming hoax as amply documented during the.
last few months. But, all these “watermelons” (outside green, inside.
red) haven’t learned anything and haven’t forgotten anything. They
still pine for the bad old days when being a communist was sooo.
fahionable. Now they are trying to empty our pockets to their benefit.
with a new guilt-trick.
Sorry, boychik! Try again when it gets warmer!

While it is great for cooling in the summer and warmth in the winter (he also has a Franklin Stove to provide heat), trying to sell that place is a bit problematic, as he has found out – it’s like selling the land, and throwing in the house for free!

“”This is an attempt to put the current (scientific) studies of ongoing Global Climate Change in perspective for my grandchildren and the average American and for the Congress, politicians, environmentalists, journalists and current administration officials.”" — he begins…

Bill

Speaking of education, I remember studied about the Nazi era in high school as well as in college. We know it but we don’t feel it, we don’;t feel the pain or sorrow of the Jews, sorry about that. We Taiwanese lack empathy, we don’t learn to have empathy in our edyucatiobn. The KMT once did things to the Taiwanese ppl not too different from the Nazis, so, your prob don’t know it or you don’t feel it either, I wouldn’t blame you for that.

Last thing, I couldn’t believe business owner were forced to have their sign changed, have the product recalled because of Nazi resemblance. I’m a Seinfeld fan, and I found the “Soup Nazi” episode very entertaining, I really wonder has anyone ever made a complaint to the production company?”

7-Eleven stores in Taiwan pull Hitler lookalike items

These items were pulled from 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan after complaints about their resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
September 28th, 2011

With over 175 Comments , many of them anti-Israel, anti-Jewish or plain antisemitic…… read the comments to see public reax:

In Taiwan, 7-Eleven stores have pulled products featuring a cartoon vampire that bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler after receiving complaints from the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei (ISECO) for selling the items, according to several media reports.

The convenience store chain, whose 4,400 Taiwanese locations are owned by the President Chain Store Corp., has suspended sales of the key chains, USB drives and magnets sporting the apparent caricature of the Nazi dictator. Company officials originally denied that the cartoon was meant to depict Hitler, first calling the black square on the figure’s face a tooth, then a nose, rather than a mustache. But on Wednesday, the company acknowledged that many saw the image as offensive and said that it did not intend to be insensitive by selling the items.

“Because there are people with doubts, we’ve stopped selling the products for now,” a representative from 7-Eleven told the German Press Agency, according to an Israeli newspaper.

The ISECO, which is Israel’s de facto embassy to Taiwan, since China does not allow its diplomatic allies to have official ties with the island, says that while it does not think the products were meant to be a show of support for anti-Semitic ideology, the cartoon figure does signify a lack of understanding of the Nazi party’s history.

“We were appalled to see the Hitler lookalike image being used, again, as a marketing aid and sold in Taiwan’s 7-Eleven stores,” ISECO representative Simona Halperin said in a statement Tuesday. “I find it tragic that once again people down the chain of marketing and promotion fail to recognize the meaning of the Dark Age in human history that the Nazi dictator represents.”

Taiwan has a history of Nazi imagery popping up in public as a result of commercial use.

Outrage about Thai school’s Nazi parade

In 1999, a local company used an image of Hitler to advertise space heaters made in Germany. Additionally, in 2000, a restaurant in Taipei called The Jail displayed images of Nazi concentration camps, while a bar in Taipei operated under the name “Nazi Bar” during the 1990s. Both businesses later removed the references.

The nation’s fascination with Nazi lore could stem from the fact that the party has become a symbol of courage because of poor education, which explains why an association created to explore Hitler’s achievements was able to garner interest from 1,000 people in 2005.

“They’re not anti-Semitic, just ignorant,” Lin Chong-pin, a professor of strategic studies at Tamkang University in Taiwan, told the Christian Science Monitor after a photo surfaced on the Ministry of National Defense’s website of three students wearing Nazi uniforms at a military summer camp. “They think the Nazi uniforms look spirited, that the high hat looks very heroic,” he said. “Reading and understanding of history is very poor.”

Products featuring the cartoon figure, which was designed by blogger Mark Lee, are sold in other Taiwanese stores as well, according to 7-Eleven. Lee says that while the figure’s appearance was inspired by Hitler, the cartoon was not meant to endorse any of Hitler’s views. In addition to depicting the dictator’s famous mustache, the caricature also wears a red armband and, in one version, has its arm raised in the fashion of the iconic Nazi salute.

“I had hoped to use it to satirize some bosses,” Lee told Agence France-Presse. “In the eyes of disgruntled employees, many bosses are greedy and dictatorial and like vampires trying to suck money from them.”

Representatives for 7-Eleven declined to disclose how many of Lee’s products were purchased during their short run on the store’s shelves. The items went on sale Sunday and sold for $15 each, according to the San Diego Jewish World.

hahahahahhahahaha

Or lord, deny, deny, deny dear 711 Pr lady. How effective”

Also, the logo isn’t that much like a swastika at all. Besides, in Asia the reverse Buddhist swastika is still used as a symbol of good fortune and therefore keeps the pre-Nazi connotations that it’s lost in the West.

Finally, why do I get the feeling that this isn’t actually a “story”, but the result of those increasing numbers of Telegraph staff paid to trawl YouTube and fatuous blogs for page-fillers, non-stories and general guff. I bet someone on holiday snapped this image, put it on their blog, and now the DT will try to get some milage from it. Saves going out and doing some proper reporting.

I’ve just spotted the branding on the packaging. “i’m mark”. Of course, that famous dictator Mark Hitler. How silly of me to forget… ”

After these howls of protest, were any views of outrage expressed by the Israel Economic and Cultural Office concerning the theft and occupation of Palestinian land? Probably more outrageous than a few plastic key rings. And much more lethal. ”

The UPDATED AFP wire story now quotes Mark Lee the Taiwanese dude who created the cartoonish Hitler “angry boss” figure on his marketing blog first and then later sold store rights to 711 for a 50/50 share of the profits, and the “toy” is now in all 1000 711 outlets all over Taiwan. They have not been pulled yet and may never be.

Mr Lee told the AFP in a new update that he has been contacted by many news outlets as a result of this story and that he does not understand what all the hullabaloo is about as he created the cartoonish doll figure merely to poke fun at Hitler in a satirical ironic way and the doll is clearly labeled in Chinese packaging as “the boss is angry” and not once does the name Hitler appear on the packaging or on Mr Lee’s website. So he believes he did nothing wrong here and does not understand the negative reactions from the Israeli and German trade missions in Taipei , nor the neg reactions from readers around the world outside Taiwan. In fact, most Taiwanese people seem to think the “alleged” Hitler toy is cute and funny, and some don’t even recognize Hitler’s face in it at all!

As the world turns.

PR official from Taiwan firm which runs 7-Eleven in Taiwan, denied the images were meant to represent the German dictator.

”They don’t look like Hitler. It’s not a moustache, but a tooth,” she said, referring to a black square in the middle of the figure’s face.

Hitler lookalike key rings and magnets on sale in Taiwan 7-Eleven

Published on Sep 26, 2011

by Benjamin Yeh

A Hitler lookalike appeared on key rings and magnets on sale at 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan, triggering strong reaction on Monday from the de facto Israeli embassy, which said it was ‘appalled’.

The items, seen at several 7-Eleven convenience stores in Taipei, sported an Adolf Hitler-style cartoon figure with a short black moustache, a brown jacket and a red, black and white symbol reminiscent of the Nazis’ swastika banners.

‘We were appalled to see the Hitler lookalike image being used, again, as marketing aid, and sold in Taiwan’s 7-Eleven stores,’ said Simona Halperin, representative of the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei.

‘I find it tragic that once again, people (in) marketing and promotion fail to recognise the meaning of the dark age in human history the Nazi dictator represents.’ She added that she was sure the images were the result of ‘ignorance’ and did not reflect ‘support or identification with the atrocities committed during the Holocaust by the Nazis.’

A PR official from Taiwan firm which runs 7-Eleven in Taiwan, denied the images were meant to represent the German dictator.

”They don’t look like Hitler. It’s not a moustache, but a tooth,” she said, referring to a black square in the middle of the figure’s face.

East Asian pop culture and commercial art has a long history of fascination with Hitler and the Nazis.

Occasionally, Hitler turns up in Asian advertisement campaigns, and in the 1990s a pub called “Nazi Bar” was briefly in operation in Taipei.

In July the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei expressed shock when three local students were seen dressed in Nazi uniforms at a military-organized summer camp.