WHAT IS A JEW?

On Dovbear's site there is a list of possible slogans for Orthodox Judaism.
This post:
http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2008/02/time-to-vote-again.html

Please visit and vote - remember, you have a voice but not a veto.


It is a reduction, in that it represents the finalists. As you would expect from a group known for vociferous opinions and finely split hairs, there were many more. Probably far too many to mention.


OJ SLOGAN LIST
I list all of them here in order of consensual weight (meaning how they rank in terms of support):

1 Think Inside the Box. (Tzipporah)
2 Answering questions with questions since 1348 BCE (yoni)
3 The chosen sub-sect, of the chosen sect of the chosen religion of the chosen people. (Apple)
4 Two Jews, Three Opinions, All Wrong. (Cousin Oliver)
5 We Used To Eat Strawberries (S.)
6 We're not biased. We're just right. (The Hedyot)
7 Lo BaShamayim Hi (NoPeanutz)
8 A mind is a terrible thing. (Nisht Emes)
9 Leave the thinking to us. (Baal Habos)
10 A burqa is just around the corner (Rebbetzin Keren)
11 Now with extra long sleeves! (Emes)
12 Change we can't believe in. (Barak)
13 We answer to a higher authority. Gedolim. (Shoshana)
14 A million questions - A million answers. (Baal Habos)
15 At least our women can vote. (Blue)
16 Finger pointin' good. (Defrocked Bray of Fundie)
17 Join now, we're only selective with sources! (Nisht Emes)
18 Keeping the stench of the shtetl alive. (Blue)
19 Too traditional for your tanna (Rikky)
20 Built for the road behind. (Tzipporah)
21 OJ: Since 1864. (Nisht Emes)
22 Because there are no happy gentiles (Aish Hatorah)
23 Not your grandaddy's religion (klein)
24 Don't let the name fool you, we're against anything Greek. (Nisht Emes)
25 Our men tend to be fat (Qwerty)
26 Some gedolim are more equal than other gedolim. (Apple)
27 What happens in Kollel stays in Kollel. (Baal Habos)
28 Islam Lite- whiskey instead of bombs! (Woodrow)
29 You had me at Good Shabbos (NS)
30 OJ: Or the terrorist, liberal, jihadi, femminist, homosexual elite will win. (Emes)
31 Where everybody knows your name and they always try to shame. (Frum From Booth)
32 The few. The loud. (NS)
33 We're triumphalist because we're right (Emes)
34 Are you thinking what we're thinking? (NS)
35 Age before beauty. (Baal Habos)
36 Transforming Khilul to Hilul since 1948 (Defrocked Bray of Fundie)
37 We love to lie - and it shows (Emes)
38 We're here, we're fear, get abused to it. (Nisht Emes)
39 A raccoon club for the rest of us. (Lurker)
40 Home of the whopper. (Emes)


I think this list is as good a formulation of a belief system as any, and certainly I intend to treat it as such - after all, who am I to disagree with the gedolei ha bloggim - in public?
But, if you want to delve in to the matter in further depth, please first visit this post: http://boroparkpyro.blogspot.com/2008/02/left-wing-modern-orthodoxy.html , then start reading Rabbi Yosh Yuter here: http://yutopia.yucs.org/archives/2005/07/yutopias_hashka.html , browse at length through Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (http://www.jeremyrosen.com/blog/index.html), and also visit AddeRabbi (http://adderabbi.blogspot.com/) and R. Joshua Maroof (http://vesomsechel.blogspot.com/) for some shterke insights.

If after doing all this, you still do not know what to think, read some Rabbi Pinky (http://www.geocities.com/npoj8/index.html). For perspective. And to shake your mind loose (Judaism is not only left brain, it is also deeply othersided).

Then start all over again.
Do not forget to stay tuned to my blog in the meantime, of course, as here alone all truth will eventually be revealed. Trust me.