tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post7737715548273584927..comments2023-10-20T11:58:07.221-04:00Comments on babblebook: In gay newsesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029156681791421501noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-76402896936267486092009-04-14T11:51:00.000-04:002009-04-14T11:51:00.000-04:00Max, I think you meant to comment on the next post...Max, I think you meant to comment on the next post, "Green Beans on Passover."esterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01029156681791421501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-88805046839802420162009-04-14T11:39:00.000-04:002009-04-14T11:39:00.000-04:00As an ACTUAL sephardic Jew I have to point out you...As an ACTUAL sephardic Jew I have to point out your definition for sephardic isn't entirely correct. All sephardic means is that you can trace your roots back to Spain and Portugal. After 1492, Sephardics moved to tons of different places - some of them joined established Jewish communities in the Muslim world but others settled in Amsterdam, England, and even The New World. Technically speaking, there is no direct correlation between "sephardic" and the "arab world". In other words, just because you are a Jew that is from Syria or Iraq, that doesn't mean you are sephardic. In fact, the proper term for Jews from the Muslim world that can't trace their roots back to Spain/Portugal is Mizrahi, which translated, means Easterner. <br /><br />Just wanted to clear that misnomer up.mbaumgartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15030038874699324290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-82840031587278833302009-04-13T10:28:00.000-04:002009-04-13T10:28:00.000-04:00but some of us gays *were* just as excited... if n...but some of us gays *were* just as excited... if not more so. (;snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-77170705532582274962009-04-06T15:20:00.000-04:002009-04-06T15:20:00.000-04:00The local facebook feeds were all aflutter with th...The local facebook feeds were all aflutter with the news here in non-Obama-nominating-but-oh-so-just-barely Missouri, many of them Colbertish-satirical, fearing "contamination-by-border-contact" and "The enemy is deep behind our own Real American lines. OUR MARRIAGES ARE UNDER ATTACK NEXT!!" God love this generation.<BR/><BR/>I have to remind myself that not every gay friend I have is as politically strident (to be uncharitable to myself) as I am, and often I care more about the issue than they. These are mostly the young'uns, though. Give 'em a few years. I don't need their blessing to know where I stand on the issue, and when those that were apathetic eventually and inevitably do start caring, I get to be smug about being such an enlightened hetero. *cough*Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16253047909086146362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-56658492546880002392009-04-04T19:00:00.000-04:002009-04-04T19:00:00.000-04:00Thank you for writing this.Thank you for writing this.Anya le Direhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02458199118479281140noreply@blogger.com