A Comment on Hillary Clinton For All My Co-Religionists

John Podhoretz - 02.26.2008 - 9:23 PM

Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’may rabbah…

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19 Responses to “A Comment on Hillary Clinton For All My Co-Religionists”

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   David S. Mazel Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 10:14 PM

   Amen!

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   Avi Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 10:26 PM

   ignoramus Podhoretz. saying kaddish for a living person, and for a gentile, is a sacrilege. typical of neo-cons tho, they know nothing that matters

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   Richard F. Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 10:47 PM

   Avi: I agree with you that reciting kaddish for the living, let alone for a gentile, is a chi’ll Hashem. But, before you “go off” publicly about Jewish neo-cons, let me remind you of Ahavas Y’isroe’al.

   Your point is valid, but send him a letter!

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   John Podhoretz Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 10:49 PM

   To clarify: No one is saying Kaddish. It’s what is called a joke.

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   Ari Lamm Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 10:53 PM

   Not that I care one way or another (Mr. Podhoretz’s comment was obviously a joke) - but I suspect that Avi doesn’t really have any idea what he’s talking about (and probably hasn’t ever set foot in a beis medrash for that matter…). So, Avi…would you mind providing a source for your comments? And just to make sure you don’t simply google it and get lucky - how about providing the Hebrew text from your source (to make sure you actually looked it up).

   Hint: you’re wrong…

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   Richard F. Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 11:30 PM

   Ah! A genuine machlochas on Commentary!

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   Ben Orlanski Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 11:47 PM

   Avi: Podhoretz was far too kind to you for your asinine remark.

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   Herbert Rubin, M.D. Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 11:52 PM

   I prefer singing “nah, nah,nah,nah, Hey, Hey, GOOD BY!!! Captures the right tone.

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   hamutzi Says:
   February 27th, 2008 at 10:17 AM

   If you guys are gonna get all technical on whether its a joke or a blasphemy, belonging as I do to the modern hebrew pronunciation branch of the family …..ya-ani….. in the tradition of the “Hebraicists” among us, as opposed to the “Yiddishists” [ and which is in no way meant as a disparagement of the Litvak-Polish-Yiddish-Ashkenazi pronunciaton] would it be at all right, Richard F, if I were to describe the verbal altercation, or expression of a divergence of views herein contained, and to which you make reference, as a genuine “machloket” on Commentary?

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    Stuart Nachman Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 11:24 AM

    Where is Leo Rosten when you need him?

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