Comments on: Portland: Ad in newspaper seen as offensive to Jews http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: GrumpyOldMan http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9409 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:16:43 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9409 Great – Now the question that readers in Portland want answered is why Orthodox Jews dress like bankers from the old west….

]]> By: mdlevine http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9392 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:02:10 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9392 it probably started as an “old west” routine, however, someone should have been smart enough to realize what this looks like. especially after the the other incident in Maine reported previously on this site.

]]> By: shazam http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9389 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:50:00 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9389 Looks more Litvishe than Chassidishe, IMHO.

]]> By: nameless http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9376 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:47:25 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9376 esg
describe him as ‘charming and polite’…..
come on, does that ring anti semitic bells???
We got plenty of enemies, why go on a ‘fishing expedition’ for more?

]]> By: esg78 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9373 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:33:25 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9373 Well nameless, I would agree with you except, why is this “Old West” banker wearing what looks like a pair of plastic frame eyeglasses you could only buy in Boro Park or Williamsburg?

I think it smells a little bit rotten. Someone is “pushing the envelope in Portland to see what they can get away with.

]]> By: kitzur_dot_net http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9370 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:10:19 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9370 “Religious Action Center” ??? – I think “Religious Fraction Center” is more appropriate – since they don’t even keep a fraction of a mashehu of Torah & Mitzvos – Hashem Yerachem aleinu.

]]> By: nameless http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9363 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:30:42 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9363 ‘…….it was meant to depict a banker from the Old West’
Sounds perfectly reasonable! Had there been antisemtic intent, there would not have been an apology with an explanation….
Gosh, when are we gona stop being so paranoid?!

]]> By: Pro not Anti http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/uncategorized/5185/portland-ad-in-newspaper-seen-as-offensive-to-jews.html#comment-9361 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:18:47 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=5185#comment-9361 Does anyone else “chap” that a Reform “Rabbi” associates himself with a Jewish stereotype?
I’m not praising it merely pointing out that prior to WWI & II the typical response of the reform to anit-Semitic stereotyping was to distance themselves from the “Heimishe” and believing acting more “goyish” would save them.
Ver Vaist?

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