Bar mitzvah blowjobs

http://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/614/article3a.html

614 [Hadassah-Brandeis Institute]
July 2009

Sex and the Suburbs
Find out what Monica Lewinsky has to do with bar mitzvah gifts.

by Shulamit Reinharz

[...] These questions came to mind recently when a woman in her seventies began sharing her concern with me about the custom in her granddaughter's prep school; Jewish girls were giving Jewish boys blowjobs as bar mitzvah presents! Presumably because they've already got everything else. [...]

Jewish Woman Responds to Bovine Insults

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Jerusalem Post
28 May 2009

Hebrew Hear-Say: Where the moo's takes me

By LIAT COLLINS

[...] Urban legend tells of a group of Israeli guys sitting on a London Underground train making rude remarks in Hebrew about a woman who was - how should we put it? - horizontally challenged. The comments became ever meaner, including: me-eizeh refet hi ba'a? (what cowshed did she come from?) to: "nimkor ota leTnuva vena'aseh ktzat kesef" (Let's sell her to the Tnuva dairy factory and make some money - talk about a cash cow, para holevet). Over the years, the legend has, of course, grown - as, indeed, has the reported size of the woman and the number of people who swear this happened to a friend of theirs. The punch line, however, remains the same: The woman sat impassively amid the Hebrew insults but as she stepped through the sliding doors when she got off, she looked back over her shoulder and said: "Moooo!"

The suitably humbled guys went chalk white (lavan kesid) before going red with embarrassment. [...]

Matriarch Rachel Saves Lives of Israeli Soldiers

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Jerusalem Post
14 January 2009

Soldiers turn to secret weapon: Jewish spirituality

By MATTHEW WAGNER

[A woman in black directs two Israeli soldiers in Gaza City away from a house rigged with a bomb, saving their lives when it explodes. When asked who she is, she tells the soldiers she is the Matriarch Rachel.]

[...] This story, whether true or not, is being circulated in religious circles - via Internet forums, SMS, e-mail and word of mouth - and is fast becoming an urban legend. [...]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129532

Arutz Sheva [Israel]
20 January 2009

Chief Rabbi Confirms Gaza Miracle Story

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, recovering from a life-threatening disease, prayed several times at the Tomb of the Biblical Matriarch Rachel before the recent war in Gaza. Informed that an “old woman” saved IDF soldiers’ lives in Gaza, he said, “Did she mention that I sent her?” [...]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3659308,00.html

Ynetnews [Tel Aviv, Israel]
21 January 2009

Rabbi Eliyahu: I sent Mother Rachel to Gaza

Former chief rabbi responds to rumors of woman appearing before troops, warning them of danger in Operation Cast Lead, says, 'The story is true, I sent her'. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner: A sucker will believe anything

Kobi Nahshoni

Two days have passed since the ceasefire in Gaza took effect, and one of the most widespread legends of the days on the battlefield has received rabbinical approval. On the last days of the war, rumors spread about a woman presenting herself as Jewish matriarch Rachel appearing to IDF soldiers and warning them of explosives, booby-trapped houses and terrorist ambushes within the Gaza Strip. [...]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129609

Arutz Sheva [Israel]
26 January 2009

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: A Beautiful, Young Rachel Saved IDF Soldiers

by Malkah Fleisher

(IsraelNN.com) A week after Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu confirmed the miracle story sweeping Israel - that the embodiment of the Matriarch Rachel saved the lives of soldiers in Gaza - Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is now also declaring that the Jewish foremother came to the aid of the IDF. [...]

The Grateful Terrorist (NYC)

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=28140

The Yeshiva World [Brooklyn, NY]
2 January 2009

UPDATED - ALERT - Frightening Text Messages Being Forwarded Around NY Jews

With the situation in Gaza deteriorating by the day, and anti-semitism rampant around the world, thousands of NY Jews were frightened upon receiving the following text message which has been going around on Friday afternoon:

"A Jewish woman gave a tip to a Muslim taxi driver and out of appreciation he warned her not to go to Manhattan next week Wednesday." [...]

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/text-message-warning
The Yeshiva World [Brooklyn, NY]
YWN Coffee Room
Text Message Warning

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/01/06/2009-01-06_terror_threat_just_a_terrible_hoax_says_-2.html

New York Daily News
7 January 2009

Terror threat just a terrible hoax, says NYPD

BY Matthew Lysiak and Simone Weichselbaum
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

A chilling terror warning spreading across the U.S. and Israel is a hoax, NYPD officials said yesterday.

The threat, which has popped up on forwarded e-mails and blog posts across the world, warns of an attack in New York today.

It says the warning originated with a Muslim cab driver who told a Jewish woman he picked up of a Jan. 7 plot. [...]

Auschwitz Rabbis Put God on Trial

http://www.thejc.com/node/5828

The Jewish Chronicle [UK]
19 September 2008

Wiesel: Yes, we really did put God on trial

Jenni Frazer

The story that rabbis in Auschwitz once decided to put God on trial - and found him guilty - has frequently been assumed to be apocryphal.

But on Monday night, the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel startled his audience at a Holocaust Educational Trust appeal dinner in London when he declared: "I was there when God was put on trial." [...]

Tattooed Jews Can't Be Buried in Jewish Cemeteries

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/fashion/17SKIN.html?ref=fashion

New York Times
17 July 2008

For Some Jews, It Only Sounds Like Taboo

By KATE TORGOVNICK

[...] By the time Ms. Kaplan's daughter Liz Carnes, 49, had teenage daughters who wanted body art, Ms. Carnes knew how to dissuade them.

"I'd say, `If you get a tattoo, you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery,' " said Ms. Carnes, the owner of a video equipment company in Carlsbad, Calif. "For no real reason, just that's what my parents told me." [...]

[Eight rabbinical scholars contacted by the reporter refuted the belief that tattooed Jews are barred from burial in Jewish cemeteries.]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/07/27/m1a_tattoos_0728.html

Palm Beach Post [FL]
27 July 2008

For Jews, tattoo yearning pits pride against faith

By ANDREW ABRAMSON
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

[...] Many Jews have been reluctant to get tattoos because of a long-standing belief that the deceased can't be buried in Jewish cemeteries if they are tattooed.

However, even Orthodox rabbis like [Shlomo Uminer of the Chabad Jewish Center of Martin and St. Lucie Counties] say that's a myth.

The Star of David of the Palm Beaches cemetery in West Palm Beach has no policy regarding tattoos, and Mount Sinai Memorial Park - an Orthodox cemetery in Miami - doesn't have its employees view the body before it is buried. [...]

Through a Hole in the Sheet

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Jerusalem Post
10 January 2008

Nothing but dirty laundry? [Book review]

By ABIGAIL RADOSZKOWICZ

The Rabbi's Daughter
By Reva Mann
The Dial Press
368 pages; $24

Do religious Jews make love through a hole in a sheet? It's hard to know what to make of Reva Mann's inclusion of this hoary urban legend in her sensationalist memoir The Rabbi's Daughter. [...]

Gold Menorah Kept by Vatican

http://www.jstandard.com/articles/3609/1/Myths-and-the-menorah

The Jewish Standard [NJ]
14 Dec. 2007

Myths and the menorah

By Lois Goldrich

Some contend that the gold menorah from the Second Temple is hidden in the basement of the Vatican.

But according to Steven Fine, this is just an urban myth. [...]

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http://cojs.org/stevenfine/files/The_Temple_Menorah.pdf

Biblical Archaeology Review 31, no. 4 (2005), 18-25, 62-3.

The Temple Menorah—Where Is It?

By Steven Fine