Interesting article about Lakewood
Only in America
This is a very intersting article. Having never learned or even visited Lakewood I can't say how accurate it is, so don't take everything written there as the gospel truth.
posted by bluke @ 1:29 PM
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If you look at Menachem Butler's site he says there are some inaccuracies, but doesn't really mention what they are.
http://ajhistory.blogspot.com/2005/08/life-in-lakewood-c2005.html
I visited Lakewood once. I was accosted by someone in a grocery store who repeatedly screamed in my face, "You're not Jewish!, you're not Jewish!"
Haven't been back since.
Anonymous - Are you Jewish?
:)
Language matters. Gospel means true only because of its association with the first 4 books of the Christian "New Testament." It actually means "good (truthful) tale." Jews should eschew the word gospel as a synonym for truth.
The Gospels have caused us a lot of trouble in the past.
I think that the phrase has entered common usage in English and most peole have no idea of the origin.
I didn't know Nissan Slifkin wrote a book called ZooTorah!
Another book, "ZooTorah" by Rabbi Nissan Slifkan, was banned, in Lakewood and elsewhere, because, relying on earlier accepted authorities, it presented biological evolution as a legitimate possibility and argued that the pronouncements of Talmudic sages on scientific subjects need not be considered authoritative.
In America he uses the name Iyar.
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