Comments on: Jew & A: The more you know

By: Becca

Becca — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:05:16 +0000

Yes, but did they ever try and blow up a plane with religious articles? How crazy could they really have been?

By: Irishcardinal

Irishcardinal — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:01:04 +0000

I’ve on seen them in movies, but I was taken aback by the newspaper story, when some guy was quoted as saying most people hade never seen them or heard of them. I thought, geez, surely you cosmopolitan airline types have heard of and seen this??
They did have Jews in Paducah, the nearest town to where I grew up, but only lady Jews. At least that’s all I heard about. The Crazy Cohen Sisters.

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:22:31 +0000

When I was five, everybody was Jewish.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:26:11 +0000

But, Becca, doesn’t Phil Acteries sound more Greek than Jewish?

Of course, if you were 5, maybe you thought everybody was Jewish.

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:50:00 +0000

Alex, I always just assumed they were invented by Phil Acteries, but then I was about five when I first heard the word.

Pammy, you mean people from Oklahoma travel? < gasp >

Sarp, I actually know the kid! His grandparents live in Louisville where there is, would you believe, a sizable Jewish population. But who knows where the stewardess was from; maybe they don’t have movie theaters or DVD players there.

By: sarpon

sarpon — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:01:38 +0000

I was astonished that the flight attendant had never seen “Yentel” or any Mel Brooks movie, but then I realized — the flight was going to *Kentucky.*

But perhaps we need to re-examine the societal religious discrimination revealed in “Snakes on a Plane.”

By: Pammy

Pammy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:17:04 +0000

I have! But not in Oklahoma…

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:46:13 +0000

Since the time when I became aware of tefillin (somewhat after I escaped from Kansas, where the corn is NOT as high as an elephant’s eye, because what they grow in Kansas is wheat; where they grow corn is Iowa), I have always assumed that the word “phylacteries” was coined for the sole purpose of ensuring that Anglophone Gentiles would not have to say “tefillin.” I know of no other function of the word.