8.31.10 - 2:00PM
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Eliot Glazer

Lady Gaga's Rosh Hashanah Greeting

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L'shanah Tovah! That's Hebrew for "Happy New Year," which is what happens next week when Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah. After synagogue services, millions of our country's Chosen People (don't quote me -- it's in the Bible), will head home to dip apples in honey and get into arguments that won't amount to anything serious. As they say, "Another year in Jerusalem!" (P.S. Still don't know what that means.)

For non-Jews, this only means one thing: it's officially the beginning of Jew Season, when mysteriously named holidays may or may not possibly earn you a free pass from a day at work, which, we realize, is GREAT for you. For us, however, Yom Kippur -- the dreadful "holiday" that follows Rosh Hashanah -- is NO FUN AT ALL. Forced to fast for an entire day, we get dry mouths, stale breath and pissy mood, while the gentiles probably use the day off to go to amusement parks and eat three-course-meals and drink goblets of wine or something.

Nevertheless, it is 2010, so before we hit Yom Kippur with a wide, plastered grimace, let's ring in the New Year with a certifiably ridiculous (and naturally awkward) "Telephone" parody straight from the nucleus of Judiasm: Long Island's own Community Synagogue in Port Washington. (Extra points for filming this nonsense on the dais.)

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8.31.10

By Ev

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It's "next year in Jerusalem"

9.01.10

By LilyR

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its next year in Jerusalem- meaning hopefully in the upcoming year the messiah will be here and so by the time rosh hashana rolls around we will all be togther in Jerusalem.

9.03.10

By gail

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Pretty sad that this Jewish author couldn't even get the "Next year in Jerusalem" correct, much less is clueless as to the meaning. Perhaps our synagogues should cut down on the quiche (sp?) and teach our students about our religion and culture. In addition, could you not think of any Jewish singer to dedicate a Holiday greeting to? Or are you as clueless as to Jewish musical contributors as you are to the meaning of Jerusalem?

9.03.10

By Delaila Segal

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very very interesting.. thank you..

the very best part of it .. (for me ..)
was the down-to-earthness, the inclusiveness..
the "heart" in the concluding words
from the rabbi.. (thank you rabbi.)

ie.. "and look for the Divine (ie God) in the best you
can be.."

9.04.10

By onazol17

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"Another year in Jerusalem" stands for Israel being able to hold & defend Jerusalem for another year. Many reform Jews use this phrase rather than "Next year in Jerusalem" which has to do with the law of return which means every Jew has the right to immigrate to Israel yet many have chosen not to.
Shanah Tovah! :-)

9.01.10

By Keith

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Since you were wondering about the "another year in Jerusalem" thing, I'll try to shed some light. For Jews living outside of Israel, the phrase is actually "next year in Jerusalem." I'm pretty sure this is a practice started during the diaspora as a way to stay hopeful that someday the Jews could return home to the holy land.

9.01.10

By Rich

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I assume that this article is the author's misguided attempt at humor. I find that denigrating two out of the three holiest days in the Jewish calendar as "Jew season" and the single day set aside for self-reflection and repentance for wrongs done, intentionally, unintentionally, knowingly and unknowingly as a "dreadful" holiday is neither funny nor accurate. Of course accuracy is apparently not required to post an article here, given the corrections already made by other commenters to the author's misquoted phrase, "Another year in Jerusalem."

9.03.10

By kermit402

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In bad taste and demonstrate ignorance.

9.02.10

By bren

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What ,was this?

9.02.10

By devraNS723

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My mouth is still hanging open, Eliot Glazer, you self-hating Jew and horribly un-funny writer. What a STUPID article - even if you thought the video was dumb, your critique here comes of as WAY dumber...just so you know. If you hate Yom Kippur (and the whole Jew Season) so much, please, do us all a favor and find another religion you can practice and whine about. Take the days off and go to the amusement park. PLEASE. Just don't write anymore insulting, ridiculous critiques. And may you continue to be bombarded with comments correcting your "Another year in Jerusalem" mistake, (hey, even all my non-Jewish friends know that it's "Next year in Jerusalem," you idiot) and may someone also step forward and point out that it's a BIMAH, not a DAIS. You schlemiel.

9.02.10

By B.D.A

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OMG_D!! I couldn't agree more. I'm not Jewish, my boyfriend is... and even he'll tell some good jokes poking fun at himself and his religion every now an then, but nothing as disrespectful as this. This appalled him. How ignorant and disrespectful can you be Eliot Glazer?
"Jew Season"???? Is it just me, or does any one else find this offensive to Non-Jews as well?

By the way, devraNS723.... The schlemiel part was great...much nicer than anything I would have said... in English or in Hebrew. I'm still wracking my brain for a better word.

9.02.10

By lucykimy

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Hey, I'm a Jew and I got a chuckle out of all this.....I like being Jewish, its a very rich culture and a great deal of that culture involves loads of self-deprecating humor. L'shanah tovah, gung hai fa choy, and Happy New Year, everyone!

9.02.10

By m scott ryan

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OMG. LOL.

9.03.10

By Vasu Murti

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Lady Gaga's "Telephone" song is one of my favorites, so I really liked these New Years greetings. Like Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Hindu calendar, Janmastami -- Lord Krishna's Appearance Day ("birthday"), is a day of prayer and fasting, but followed by feasting afterward.

We follow a lunar calendar, rather than solar, and my friend Anantarupa dasa commented that occasionally Janmastami falls on Yom Kippur, so any observant Jews are blessed for indirectly observing a Hindu holy day as well as their own Yom Kippur.

9.03.10

By bobsai1s

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"...while Gentiles use the day off..."
What? Never in my 68 years have I gotten a day off due to a Jewish holiday.

9.07.10

By h

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If you read the article carefully from start to end, it seems as if the writer in either anti-semetic or a neo-nazi sympathizer. Many of the things that are stated in the article are so blatantly incorrect that it must have been done intentionally and the way that they are said are just plain offensive. It is very surprising that the editor of the publication could have allowed this article to have been printed in its present state.