Why do I always hear about the cool events after they happen?!?
Instead of reading up on focus group methodology, I could have spent a lovely evening with my "Jewish buddy's" (sic) smoking a "CLEAN" hookah "in Jerusalem." Shoot. As they say, there's always next year!
As for the Jerusalem reference, Chaim Sugarman, KABOBfest's Talmudic Studies Scholar, pointed out that this event marks "Sukkot," or "booths," "one of the three major holidays known collectively as the Shalosh Regalim (three pilgrim festivals), when historically the Jewish populace traveled to the Temple in Jerusalem." (from his wikipedia posting on the subject).
This could easily have been misunderstood as a Zionist event both appropriating Arabic culture and laying claim on the city of multiple faiths, Jerusalem. In that case, I would have made a smart-ass comment such as the following:Did they snack on fine Israeli cuisine, such as Israeli falafel balls, Israeli chick pea dip, the famous Israeli upside-down rice-yogurt-meat-eggplant/cauliflower dish "maqluba," and Israeli fava bean salad (which the Arabs stole and call "foul mdemmas")?
Wow, I am so amazingly witty at 1 AM. I need to sleep, which is probably one reason I am about to write this:
Instead of presuming a Zionut mentality behind this event, I will give them the benefit of the doubt and wish them a happy holiday.
Man, now I'm really in the mood for a shisha. They are so relaxing. Too bad, they're very unhealthy -- far from the harmless treat my cousin told me they were. Smoking one for an hour is equivalent to smoking 100-200 cigarettes. Yum.
Rabbi Alter enjoying a double-apple flavored Shisha, right.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Smoking the Israeli Water Pipe
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Hummus, Hukah, Falafel- I take it these are exclusively Arab phenomenas. Jews have no right to partake, is that it? These things have become part of Israeli culture in part because of the Jews from Arab countries who immigrated to Israel to seek a better life. So what, Jews from Egypt should abandon their culture because they're not Arab enough, they have no right? of course not- and it's become part of Israeli culture which has to an extent spread to Jews around the world, even those of European background. How you've managed to paint this innocuous event into some sort of Zionist conspiracy is beyond me.
none of the Jews at Chabad house are from Arab countries. Lubavitch movement is an Eastern European heretical movement. It's quite bold of you to go out of your way to steal Palestinian culture and call it Israeli culture, especially when you deny the existence of Palestinians to begin with. we are more than happy to share Arab culture with you, when you are ready to share the land. one country, one vote! in the meantime go eat your matzo and gefilte fish!
"So what, Jews from Egypt should abandon their culture because they're not Arab enough, they have no right?"
What a silly argument!
That some Israelis are Arabs does not make Arab cultural traits "Israeli." Of course they have a right to retain their practices and customs, but their new country has no right to appropriate it (as it did Arab land).
According to your logic, the bee bim bop I have at the local Korean restaurant is American food!
Americans don't deny the existence of Koreans! Like I said when Israelis share the land and stop denying the existence of Palestinians, they can share the culture.
Wow, you're pathetic. Palestinians I know vehemently deny being Arab. Therefore, falafel, hummus et. al. have nothing to do with Palestinians. The "hookah" has been used throughout central and south asia, from Turkey to India, for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Palestinians don't have a monopoly on Arab "culture", and neither do Arabs. That's like demanding that Arabs stop tuning in to MTV. You can't control culture.
Your comments are so racist, it's ridiculous. G-d forbid the filthy Jews get to enjoy "your" hookah. What a screwball.
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