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Fucking goyland and the nasty un-bagel like bagels that the NW has. Even in San Francisco where the fags run free the jews are all goys and I can't get a good bagel to save my life.

Is this the Newark Airport I see, as in Newark, New Jersey? NYC is great for diversity, but c'mon give credit where credit is due, Jerzy rocks the Jews, too. Though screaming faries are few and far between, save the governor's office, obvy.

Dee in SF, a gift:
Bagels from your own oven!

In a mixing bowl add to 2c of warm water (~ 120oF) 1/2 package (1.5tsp) of active dry yeast, 1 Tb salt, 1 Tb Sugar (or malt syrup if you can find it), 2 Tb of oil and 2c bread flour.

Mix this until it forms a smooth batter. Add 4-5c of flour, 1/2 c at a time until the dough clears the sides of the bowl.

If you're using a mixer, switch to the dough hook. Else, flour a table and get ready to knead the dough for 10 minutes until very springy.

Let rise covered in an oiled bowl for 1-2 hours (until doubled in volume). Punch down and divide the dough first into halves, then quarters. Divide each quarter into three balls (making 12 balls total.) Roll each ball out, look the dough around your hand and twist it to seal the ends and make a bagel shape.

Boil several quarts of water + 1 Tb sugar in a large pan.

Drop the bagel-shaped dough into the boiling water. Typically they will sink to the bottom. When they float to the top (or after a few minutes if they floated right away), flip them over and boil for a couple of minutes more.

Skim the boiled bagels out and place them on an oiled cookie sheet.

Bake the boiled bagels at 450-500oF for about 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Flip the bagels over and bake for another 5-8 minutes (or until browned).

Learned how to do this after moving to Seattle.. the land of the crappy bagel.

Did you mention to this guy that you are a faygele?

For all I know this guy is an open- minded, forward-thinking, diversity-loving dude. Or he could be a fundie-conservative-religious nut, which sucks regardless of what religious jersey he wears.

Seattle's got diversity - just as soon as the locals recognize the existence of their abundant Native American culture. Wake the fuck up!

But you know what the greatish thing is about fundie Jewish nuts? They generally don't try to impose their fundie Jewish lifestyle on everyone else. He surely doesn't approve of the faygeles, but most fundie Jewish nuts are content to let the faygeles alone. Unlike, of course, the fundie Christians.

Remember: Tolerate means "put up with," not "love to pieces."

But they do try to influence other Jews. At the NYU campus, there were many Orthodox Jews handing out info and trying to chat up Reform and Conservative Jews. They would always try to talk to me. I guess I don't look goyim enough.

"They generally don't try to impose their fundie Jewish lifestyle on everyone else."

Joe Lieberman & the Defense of Marriage Act?

If you spent any time with the black hats (which is unlikely because as you noted, they tend to keep to themselves), I don't think you'd have such a romantic view of them.

BTW, you'll love this picture:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0904/bush_frum.php3

Bill Clinton and the Defense of Marriage Act?

You'd know more about this than I, but didn't the DOMA pass both houses with veto-proof majorities?

Dan, I ask this with no sarcasm intended, being a New Yorker myself: You seem to like it a lot here. Why not move?

The bagels at the Bagel Oasis on NE 65th are pretty good. Maybe not H&H good, but a LOT better than, say, Noah's.

Throughout this whole airport chriss... oops holiday tree brewhaha, I kept thinking about two Christmas seasons I spent in New York 17 years ago. I was a hoot. There is a large contingent of Jewish New Yorkers who engage in overt and covert Christmas "balancing" activities. My favorite was the van with loudspeakers on top that was driving around the area of Brooklyn I was in, engaging in direct pro-Chanuka loudspeaker propaganda. Then there were the enormous menorahs that would spontaneously appear at public locations, not counting the huge officially sanctioned menorah on Flatbush Avenue at the entrance to the big park there.

It was a lot of fun. New York at Christmas is like being in a magic movie. Seattle at Christmas is like a Garrison Keilor skit on Prairie Home Companion, without the personality. However, this year I find myself extra appreciative of all the people in my little neighborhood community here in Metronaturalistan.

I was never a fan of H&H. But, I did love the bagel place on B'way and 110th or something like that. I'm getting old. I've forgotten the name. It was a little south of Columbia Bagels.

#14, russ and daughters on the lower east side. best bagels. i miss their dark russians, though. those were the best bagels ever.