Slog - Comments on Bitter Herbs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs I’ve been a bad Jew. My family was killed in the Holocaust, less my grandmother and her sister. Then my father, after being born and stuff, married a Catholic woman who carried her faith through the maternal line. So I’m only Jewish by genealogy. I was baptized and took Communion; I didn’t get circumcised or have Bar Mitzvah. I never once brought home a nice Jewish girl. However, in a desperate attempt to connect with my ancestry, I attended my first Seder last year. Adding insult to long-standing injury, I even fucked that up – I got stoned before the... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:20:47 -0800 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:45:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by daniel Is palm sunday on April 1 this year? That would be funny.

]]> daniel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686556 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686556 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:41:10 -0800 Comment by elswinger If you are throwing any herb away, throw it my way!

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686562 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686562 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:42:51 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi I didn't realize that pot rises when you cook it.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686569 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:48:55 -0800 Comment by monkey Jesus H Christ! What do you think the "H" stands for anyway?

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686582 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686582 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:58:32 -0800 Comment by Rob It's nice to know you're uncut, Dominic. I've always wondered.

]]> Rob http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686601 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686601 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:07:39 -0800 Comment by thehim I've only been to two Seders, but I'd been under the impression that being stoned was a requirement.

]]> thehim http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686604 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686604 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:08:17 -0800 Comment by wisepunk I have pretty much the same background, and I have had an interest in learning about my Jewish background. I'm not giving up pot for it, though.

]]> wisepunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686617 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686617 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:20:58 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO You've never brought home a nice Jewish girl? Dude, you're missing out. Jew chicks are the hottest!

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686618 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686618 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:21:16 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden Nope, Mike, I haven't. A few nice Jewish boys, though...

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686640 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686640 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:44:34 -0800 Comment by josh i'm a jew and i'm here to help. throw an extra * in "Y****." yahweh, if that's to what you're referring, is six letters.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686648 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:48:49 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden See, I'm the wurst. It's fixed now.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686651 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686651 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:52:39 -0800 Comment by Joe The jewish fixation on orthopraxis has always seemed odd but amusing to me. Of course, orthopraxis is better than orthodoxis, if you feel you must subjugate yourself to some form of religious discipline.

]]> Joe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686668 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:14:27 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I thought Hebrew used ideograms for letters ... guess my Jewish grandfather was lying, huh?

Besides, Jesus got high.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686794 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686794 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:22:33 -0800 Comment by Joe I don't know if your grandfather was lying; he might just have been confused. The glyphs in Hebrew are definitely part of an alphabet, and thus can be correctly termed letters; they certainly aren't the ideograms found in logographic systems like Chinese. But if you like, you can use "grapheme" for both.

]]> Joe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686829 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686829 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:53:58 -0800 Comment by a fan nicely done, mr. holden. good stuff.

]]> a fan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686934 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c686934 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:27:15 -0800 Comment by Matt I'm of a mind that part of being a good Jew is being a bad Jew and feeling guilty about it.

]]> Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c687016 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c687016 Life Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:01:11 -0800 Comment by etchasketch Yay, another Cathwish! It gets so damn confusing this time of year, but hey, between Lent and Israel's abstinence, now you can kill two birds with one, um, toke. I mean, with no toke. Maneschewitz ain't that great, but each year it gives me hope people will get buzzed enough not to notice when I accidentally cross myself during the Seder...

]]> etchasketch http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c687548 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/bitter_herbs#c687548 Life Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:45:00 -0800