Billy Joel, cont.
I am going to a Billy Joel concert next Saturday, so I will just pop backstage and ask him about that, Kris.
On a totally different note, I feel like I have talked to a lot of people lately whose families include some really bad people. Considering how big our family is, it's pretty impressive that we don't have any dead weight among us. Nice job, team.
I applied for a birthright trip to Israel for this summer along with two friends, and one of them was contacted this morning for his phone interview. One of the questions he was asked was to, "Describe your Jewishness." Do you think if I try to distract the interviewer by starting a debate about whether or not Jewishness is a word, I can get away with not answering the question?
On a totally different note, I feel like I have talked to a lot of people lately whose families include some really bad people. Considering how big our family is, it's pretty impressive that we don't have any dead weight among us. Nice job, team.
I applied for a birthright trip to Israel for this summer along with two friends, and one of them was contacted this morning for his phone interview. One of the questions he was asked was to, "Describe your Jewishness." Do you think if I try to distract the interviewer by starting a debate about whether or not Jewishness is a word, I can get away with not answering the question?
posted by Kimberly at
2:15 PM
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Say, "although it has no power over me personally, I've watched my mother wield Jewish guilt over my two sisters for the past 24 years, you know what I'm talking about?"
It would be a hard question to answer without stereotyping. I think the best way around it would be to say that the truth is you feel entirely out of touch with your jewishness and that is why this trip is so important to you. You NEED to find your roots.
Do Tricia's thing but randomly throw in words like yenta, schmutz, and tooskik!!!
Kimi,
Say what Tricia says to say, then try to throw in this joke, to show you understand your Jewish ancestry...
An elderly man walks into a confessional. The
following conversation ensues:
I have been married
many, many years, many children, grandchildren, and
great grandchildren. Yesterday, I picked up two
college girls, hitchhiking. We went to a motel, where
I had sex with each of them three times."
Priest: "Are you sorry for your sins?"
Man: "What sins?"
Priest: "What kind of a Catholic are you?"
Man: "I'm Jewish."
Priest: "Why are you telling me all this?"
Man: "I'm 92 years old .... I'm telling everybody!"
I just laughed so hard at that joke that tea came out of my nose a little bit.
I've yielded Jewish guilt for the past 24 years?!!? That's not JEWISH guilt, that's just something that comes naturally to mothers - - - and woe the daughter who doesn't feel that guilt . . .
Oh my gosh, when I read my mother's last comment, I felt an ACTUAL pang of guilt, wondering if I felt enough guilt over the years. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH ME!!!!!
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