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Barry

... being a Jew boils down to enjoying a matzoth ball, Gefilte fish etc. Heathen that I am t To me, Passover means two things: Watching The Ten Commandments on TV (my grandtather taught me that it was all true when I was a kid........was that also brainwashing?........but regardless, I love it for ...

Barry

If you're honest with yourself, you will admit that your views of orthodox Judaism are shaped by anecdote rather than serious study. I am perfectly honest with myself. I grew up in a secular envirnoment and have always been comfortable in such. I'm sorry, but a young child being told by his parents...

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A Justice doing his own research on the Internet is absolutely outrageous??? DeLay Continues Attacks on Federal Courts Yahoo! - AP By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's work from the bench has been "incr...

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The train is rolling down the tracks, slowly but surely. I hope the religious right enjoys the ride. Los Angeles Times April 19, 2005 Robert Scheer: GOP Gays and the 'Finkelstein Phenomenon' The issue arguably cost John Kerry the presidential election, and Kansas has just become the 18th state to co...

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I've seen Orthodox men, from Islam and Judaism, defend their rules that separate men and women (be it separation during prayer, separate dress codes, separate whatever) as basically separate but equal; or as a sign of the respect and esteem that men have for women. But who made the rules? Men. Were ...

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Your description of the Bar Mitzvah process may be accurate for essentially assimilated American Jews, but it's as alien to Orthodox Judaism as a ham sandwich on Yom Kippur. You were simply brainwashed against the practice of authentic Judaism. Your situation was no different than that of most libe...

Barry

I had doubt. I should have reached for that dictionary

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But I was in a hurry.

Oy.

Barry

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/06/04/israel.women/index.html http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9902/01/israel.divided/index.html The following is clipped from a 2003 U.S. State Dept. document on Israel and the surrounding territories called: "International Religous Freedom Report 2003" Animos...

Barry

I'll never win a spelling or grammar contest.......I stand convicted.

I suppose my spelling error/misuse excuses the guys for their poor manners at the Wall.

By the way Frank, how old is the Earth?

Barry

I don't think it's a coincidence that Catholicism, Orthodox Judaism and Islam all treat females as second-class citizens in one respect or another. The rules to these religions were all written by men who undoubtedly never heard of women's lib. Yeah. Just ask my wife. I beat her at least three time...

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The media couldn't bring themselves to say "homosexual priests." Nor can I remember a publicized instance in which the media described an adult who had sexual relations with a minor of the opposite sex specifically as a "heterosexual." Pedophilia is no more right or wrong when it's with a member of...

Barry

I don't think it's a coincidence that Catholicism, Orthodox Judaism and Islam all treat females as second-class citizens in one respect or another.

The rules to these religions were all written by men who undoubtedly never heard of women's lib.

Barry

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Thanks Frank. I appreciate such a sincere expression of respect. I know it couldn't have been otherwise coming from anyone as steeped in the word of Christ as you. I'd love to read why you think it's inappropriate for a woman to be priest? Don't just tell me because it's an "eternal, unchanging trut...

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Besides, all the newpaper recounts showed that on any of the standards for counting votes proposed by Gore, Bush still won Florida. It is simply a myth that Gore really had more votes than Bush and was denied victory by the Supreme Court's decision. Jack, As I, and others, have pointed out to you o...

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I can't wait for the typical hand-wringing, weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth from the left--Catholic and secular. Imagine, another Pope who believes in eternal, unchanging truth! How backward! How out of touch with the progressive spirit of the day! Cardinal Ratzinger is known a staunch cons...

Barry

I just heard his Concert Music for Strings and Brass recently performed by Sawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra. It's a very pleasant piece; lots of zip.

Barry

My two favorites are Rubinstein/Reiner and the Richter DG recording. If I've heard the Graffman, it was years ago. Speaking of Graffman, it's been announced that he'll be giving up his job as head (not sure if he's called President or something else) of the Curtis Institute. He's going to be replace...

Barry

I've been slow getting on to any of Vanska's recordings. He does appear in the Minnesota Orchestra's big box 12-CD commemorative set in Grieg's Peer Gynt excerpts. Interesting too, the balance of opinions on this conductor ... either very fine, or not so fine. I'm going to end that trend and say I'...

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What "rights" people have is a question of what the law is, and obviously the law permits the taxing of estates. I take it this discussion is about the justification of the tax laws. You can tax the hell out of wealthy people's estates if you want, but that doesn't make it right. If Bill Gates want...

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Oh brother, have you guys (minus Cor) been reading Marx???? It is a dreadfully immoral tax (like progressive taxation in general). So you are all OK with the government arbitrarily declaring that after a certain amount the state is allowed to take 45% of an estate? Unbelievable. There is word for t...

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IMO a rose is a rose is a rose, it does not matter what one calls the tax, we still need it as JBuck wrote, to mitgate the concentration of wealth. There should probably be exceptions for small family businesses, and for heirs that are disabled (a medical trust to pay for their care). In light of t...

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I don't know the details of what went on at the Times, but I can say that here at the Philadelphia Inquirer, another paper that is sometimes blasted as having a liberal slant, we sometimes run opposing opinion pieces side-by-side on the same issue. Under those circumstances, when we have one writer ...

Barry

I attended a recital by him over a decade ago and he wasn't very good then. I can imagine what he sounds like now.

Personally, I think anyone who pays big money to hear him sing at this point in his career is either a little nuts or has enough money for it to not be an object.

Barry

I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who remembered that one of the purposes of estate taxes was to mitigate the tendency of wealth to become concentrated more and more in the hands of a few over a period of generations. The whole term "death tax" is right-wing propaganda. Right. Interes...

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They'd be nuts to drop it. If there are family businesses being adversely impacted by it, adjust it to exempt family businesses. I've got no sympathy for multi-millionaires (the ones most impacted by this tax after the increase in exemption) whining that they won't get to pass their millions on to j...

Barry

I've tried symphonies 3, 4, 7 & 8 from Zinman's Beethoven cycle, and the only one I've liked is the fourth, which may just be my favorite modern recording of that symphony. Three, seven and eight didn't make much of an impression on me. I'm still anxious to give the new overture set a shot though. I...

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I like it. It's not going to replace Sawallisch/Dresden or Bernstein/VPO for me, but for the ocassion when I want to hear a different approach; something with leaner orchestral textures and more transparency, I'll turn to Zinman.

Barry

I've already picked up the Hogwood disc of Martinu, Honneger and Stravinsky, as well as the Zinman-Schumann set and also intend to give Zinman's new set of Beethoven overtures a shot.

Barry

The academy is not an alien island unconnected to the larger society it serves. It's hard to hold onto that idea, given what we've seen of the radicalized academia in that last few years. I agree with Huntington's observations that academia is one segment of the growing elites that increasingly kno...

Barry

Yes, you're right :). I have actually thought of a very nice political ad for the Democrats. They should show a scene in a typical elementary school classroom. The students are learning about American government and the topic of the day is the Fillibuster. Then the announcer comes on and says someth...

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On some issues and in some races, yes, Cosima. You're right. But most daily newspapers are known for having an either liberal or conservative slant on the Editorial Page. Another very highly regarded daily paper, The Wall Street Journal, is well-known for consistantly taking conservative positions. ...

Barry

Some would say it's the Republicans who are trying to have it both ways. As to the Times, as with any newspaper, the makeup of the Editorial Board members, is not locked in stone. It changes over time. I don't know how many changes have been made in the Board at the Times in the past decade, but the...

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Come on, Pizza, Barry has shown no lack of control. To remark that a person's beliefs are pernicious but certainly not meriting legal sanction is common rhetoric, not loss of composure. Utter nonsense Ralph. Since when under any circumstance other than those enumerated in Brandenburg which are obvi...

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Thanks Ralph. I really find it amazing that someone would debate the intent of a statement with the person who made the statement, as if he doesn't know what he meant by his own words.

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You'll stand by your remark? Meaning you think you know what I mean by my remarks better than I do. That's some trick. Have you always been a mind-reader? We're not debating what someone meant by a statement when the person who made it isn't around to clarify his or her intent. I know the meaning of...

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Bull. I was getting a hard time from a couple sources who felt I was being too tough on Frank. I responded by saying it's not like I want to throw the guy in jail. I'm just aggressively responding to things he's writing on a message board. If you think that is the equivalent of me considering legal ...

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What's mostly "amusing and silly" to me is the self-congratulatory stance that both Barry and Ralph assume on what they purport to be social progress, and their corresponding denigration of Frank's beliefs in that respect. Barry even goes so far as to consider whether "sanctions" and "jail" might n...

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I would just personally prefer that these issues be discussed without personal attacks on anyone's values when they stem from a sincere adherence to religious doctrine that may not be mainstream but it's hardly lunatic fringe either. Yes, but religiously inspired societal views like Frank's were di...

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Sorry Ralph, but I don't consider my reaction to Frank's lectures on the superiority of his moral code to mine an overreaction; nor did I overreact to his first post on this thread. I'm not calling for the man to be legally sanctioned in any way. I don't think he should go to jail for any of his exp...

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I have to bring up a scene from a Ken Burns documentary ? Translation, please? Looking for information: what does this interesting story have to do with gays? The analogy is between gays aggressively seeking the right to marry and serve openly in the military before society is ready for it as you c...

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I have to bring up a scene from a Ken Burns documentary on the early feminine/sufferage movement of the 19th and early twentieth centuries. At a meeting at which one of the leading feminists of the day (it may have been Stanton) was speaking to a room full of supporters, she called for the right to ...

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It's moral relativism, which is what the right always accuses the left of; with some justification on foreign policy. What's the "it's"? "It's" is the passing off of hatred as a legitimate brand of morality. And passing off the desire to be able to live openly as a married couple and to serve openl...

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It's moral relativism, which is what the right always accuses the left of; with some justification on foreign policy.

Barry

Wagner orchestral highlights from the Ring and assorted other operas by Tennstedt and the BPO from the early 80s.

It's a two-disc set that is part of EMI's Gemini series. With Tower's EMI sale, I picked it up for only $8.99. Good deal and excellent recordings.

Barry

Corlyss, Owlice covered what I would have said in a response to you for the most part. As Ralph and I said, it's a dignity issue. Feeling like a second-class citizen matters to some people. And what am I, chopped liver? I'm the one who has had the nerve to call a spade a spade and make no apologies...

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Corlyss, Owlice covered what I would have said in a response to you for the most part. As Ralph and I said, it's a dignity issue. Feeling like a second-class citizen matters to some people. Of course we can't change attitudes with legislation, but we can progress legally, in spite of the fact that a...

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Corylss, Is heated exchange not part of an open forum like this? Not only that, but I'm fairly sure it was Frank who started a thread inviting opinions on the agenda of Fundamentalists. And it was he who came on this thread and made what many (I would hope most) would consider to be an offensive rem...

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Tower is having a sale on EMI CDs, so I stopped in and browsed tonight. I picked up a two-disc set of Wagner orchestral excerpts from the Ring and various other operas performed by the BPO under Tennstedt. These are early 80s recordings and I like what I'm hearing so far. The BPO of that period had ...

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I'm not a teacher and any writing I do that appears in the paper I work at is related to food and movies. So I've got no qualms about saying that I think Frank and others like him are a combination of comical, tragic and dangerous.

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