tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post6692503349434921754..comments2024-03-07T15:19:48.772-05:00Comments on The Rabbi with a Blog (Rabbi Jason Miller): Is Benjamin Millepied Jewish?Rabbi Jason Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07805550465729805847noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-22652329431094933172012-12-01T16:39:53.960-05:002012-12-01T16:39:53.960-05:00I hear ya! Thanks for posting.I hear ya! Thanks for posting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-32638936121828182482012-12-01T16:35:42.311-05:002012-12-01T16:35:42.311-05:00I don't understand why she converted anyway?I&...I don't understand why she converted anyway?I'm Christian and would not consider it.You can love and marry whomever you choose, why one would loose their faith is beyond me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-36987712685037591172012-12-01T16:30:59.345-05:002012-12-01T16:30:59.345-05:00As a proud Christian I'm always struck by peop...As a proud Christian I'm always struck by people who convert anyway? If I thought of dating and possibly marrying a jewish girl, I not only wouldn't convert, but would never expect her to either.It makes sense to stay with your own faith.Period!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-36795416923974915452012-12-01T16:22:06.670-05:002012-12-01T16:22:06.670-05:00People should just not marry outside their faith.a...People should just not marry outside their faith.and then expect their partner to convert! As a Christian, I wouldn't.People should be proud enough to keep their own faith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-54567186322539082182012-08-22T23:52:17.049-04:002012-08-22T23:52:17.049-04:00Catherine Denueve and Benjamin Millepied are both ...Catherine Denueve and Benjamin Millepied are both Baptized Catholic. Benjamin is a common name between Christians and Jews, like many common names between Muslims and Jews, but who care and what's a big deal? As long they believe and warship the same God. <br />Hope they stay married for many many years to come and wish them endless happiness.francoisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-2686519726750633142012-08-08T14:16:30.981-04:002012-08-08T14:16:30.981-04:00" I don't see Natalie betraying her herit..." I don't see Natalie betraying her heritage like that _____ Bar Refaeli" <br /><br />Never knew a day would come when i would have to defend bar refaeli, but here it is. How is BR betraying her heritage? -Because she dated Leo?? You got to be kidding?!<br /><br />If anything she does a great job showing this beautiful modern side of Israel and what being fully jewish means!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-44379947169146500182012-08-07T07:31:36.726-04:002012-08-07T07:31:36.726-04:00Oh... i just dont believe that in the curent centu...Oh... i just dont believe that in the curent century there is still a discriminationKelly Sophianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-78419918908225172552012-08-06T16:29:30.487-04:002012-08-06T16:29:30.487-04:00It would be wonderful if Gentiles would stop marry...It would be wonderful if Gentiles would stop marrying Jews. After seeing what happened to Billy Joel's ex-wife and the child they produced > a gorgon.<br /> <br />I know Portman got a nose job. Perhaps she does not want to look too Jewish. Anyway in terms of looks and acting ability she is highly over rated. Of course, it helps being Jewsih in Hollywood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-84903692841479005222012-08-06T12:49:53.015-04:002012-08-06T12:49:53.015-04:00I wonder is her children will marry Jewish....Not!...I wonder is her children will marry Jewish....Not! Of course they will NOT. Another one bites the dust!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-50086574502277604052012-05-12T23:34:24.482-04:002012-05-12T23:34:24.482-04:00Wow...that was so well said it gave me goosebumps....Wow...that was so well said it gave me goosebumps. So sad that your words will not penetrate any of them. Religion is the silliest thing in the world and this religion takes the cake. A god would never choose one race over another...man does that, and man created your silly torah to help uplift a repressed culture. Your traditions are archaic and ridiculous. Who cares if natalie married a jew or not. He is a human being and she obviously loves him. I cannot believe we are not more evolved than this in our thinkingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-29111265586374611822012-04-16T13:28:35.364-04:002012-04-16T13:28:35.364-04:00Oh! They do look great together and to think that ...Oh! They do look great together and to think that they will pick that country for their wedding.<br /><a href="http://www.dolphinexpress.com/movingtoisrael.php" rel="nofollow">moving to israel</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-25370782589451151562012-04-09T23:08:20.257-04:002012-04-09T23:08:20.257-04:00Off subject but relevant now that Anonymous asks: ...Off subject but relevant now that Anonymous asks: John Kerry is a Self-Hating Jew (even if he was then unintentionally) because he supports a party of, with few exceptions, Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish values: abortion, same-sex marriage, class warfare, etc.Nickidewbearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-52495575201308663862012-04-09T23:03:18.329-04:002012-04-09T23:03:18.329-04:00With all due respect, this is why I don't take...With all due respect, this is why I don't take you seriously. Let's look at Vaykira 18 where homosexuality is talked about: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination." The converse applies: women shall not lie with each other as with men. That means that (for a lack of a better explanation) even pretend oral sex between Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis was wrong.Nickidewbearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15939839533117910997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-82215557124025403992011-12-16T20:36:28.810-05:002011-12-16T20:36:28.810-05:00Reading your comments, no wonder you people got pe...Reading your comments, no wonder you people got persecuted from the beginning of timesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-9706770682367201442011-12-16T20:29:38.927-05:002011-12-16T20:29:38.927-05:00Benjamin millepied is his real name and he doesn&#...Benjamin millepied is his real name and he doesn't deserve any of your insulting and hateful comments.<br />I see why she didn't marry a jew now. No point stirring all this heinous superiority complex in your own home.<br />Feel sorry for you peoplenicolasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-47671624860622351592011-10-02T04:13:09.275-04:002011-10-02T04:13:09.275-04:00Henry Winkler had no problem marrying a Jewish Wom...Henry Winkler had no problem marrying a Jewish Woman. With all that fame he remembered that shared cultural,religous, and historical experiences make for a couple who understand each other the second they meet.<br /><br />"As for his Jewish identity, Winkler and his parents are examples of Jewish survival and success, and Winkler said that he presents that to audiences simply by presenting himself."<br /><br />Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. Another couple Jewish boys that America turned into "happen to be Jews" Not that they aint proud but their is a lot more to pride then just being born to a particular people or religon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-71246579743208719382011-07-07T16:57:22.071-04:002011-07-07T16:57:22.071-04:00listen...if you marry for love and comfort...then ...listen...if you marry for love and comfort...then you will eventualy whipe out your cultural heritage. <br />For thousand of years people married for creation of life and <br />preservation of culture and bulogical belinging to a group of people with same heritage. Not only jews. All nations. There wouold be no french, british, german russian nations without <br />sharing the same bilogical comonality. We all would be just humans if the culture of our ancestors is unknown. Daa. It is proposterous to call Jewish preservation rasist. Rasists and nazists are defined by attacking the 'other' groups of people that are not of their heritage. Jews attack nobody. Jew contribute to human sosciety no lss (if not more) then any other predefined group of people united by their genetic similaries. Jews do not kill anybody, disrepect anybody, or<br />try to attack anybody. We lived in Europe for 2 thousand years...and never pretended to claim that any of Europian teritory belongs to us. We do not grab what we know was given to us out of hospitality and tolerance (most of the time). And when we were hated, we moved to other countries to survive...and did not try to claim the ownership for the places we had to live in order to survive and continue the human race. <br />SO, after being whiped out from Europe by most sivilized people on eart, we had no choice but to push our way into the only place that we have the right to call our birthplace...Israel. For the first time we had to learn to fight for our right to our lend in 2 thousand years. Yes, many acuse us <br />of all kind of things. It is insane to even presume that we can be idfentifed with nazies or rasists...because we do not HATE, we do not sream hate, we respect. It is my right as human being to be proud of my cultural background <br />and pass it on to my children. I do not even believe in God...never saw one and i am sure if one would exist, holocoust would not happened. Does not matter. I am an American first of all and a jew becaus of by genetic background (to the best of my knowledge). I want my kids to be proud of the thier Jewish history, achievments of Jewish people and continue to contibute to the Jewish genetic and cultural pool. Very simple. we jews are not better then the rest of people. We are not different then the rest of people. We simply proud of what we have accomplished (like a kid in the shool that trying to get an A for work he is done).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-88319205963235162632011-07-07T11:49:01.189-04:002011-07-07T11:49:01.189-04:00Life is too short to worry about such things. If ...Life is too short to worry about such things. If you find someone with whom you can share life and be happy, go for it! I married my 'Shicksa Goddess' 8 years ago and have had the best years of my life with more to come. We are culturally aware and observant of both of our religious backgrounds and have grown because of it.<br /><br />Mazal Tov to Natalie & Benjamin.Mrturkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17422305672833444718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-89512498990931301192011-07-07T03:15:03.582-04:002011-07-07T03:15:03.582-04:00Some of the above comments have claimed that the J...Some of the above comments have claimed that the Jewish community's concern for the prevalence of intermarriage amongst American Jews stems from a desire to preserve ancient Jewish culture and traditions, and that it is therefore not an act of racism or homogeneity. Some have stated that intermarriage is often closely associated with the loss of traditional Jewish custom and that, in this sense, the attempt at keeping marital pairings within the 'tribe' is not dissimilar from other religions, including Hinduism.<br /><br />I would agree with this were it not for the fact that (Orthodox) Judaism actively resists the inclusion of non-Jews into the faith. It's such a convenient fact to ignore and, coupled with the (absolutely horrific) suffering of Jews during the Nazi regime's holocaust, remains a staunch justification for what would be considered blatant racism were it any other ethnicity. The very fact that I use the word 'ethnicity' without flinching when describing those of Jewish faith says it all really.<br /><br />I think Jews shoot themselves in the foot; they claim to want their 'people' (read: bloodline - scarily similar to the Nazi eugenics research in the 30s) to survive. Yet by refusing to allow those who aren't BORN Jewish the capacity to become so, you're threatening your own survival to far greater detriment. <br /><br />I am a non-Jewish female and have dated Jewish men, and I find the faith and its history incredibly interesting. I would be supportive of my children being raised with the inclusion of Jewish customs and awareness of their culture and history, if that was the wish of the person I loved. <br /><br />But when you create rules that mandate that one person is somehow more blessed or more biologically aligned with a religious ideology because they contain a certain genealogy, you're no longer preserving traditions, you're merely using that as a guise for the quest for purity of race. And I honestly do not think that past persecution of Jews, however awful (and I acknowledge, it has been awful) justifies the practice of the same close-minded, not to mention dangerous, 'closed-community breeding' that (ironically) was practiced by the Germans during the interwar period and WWII. Do Orthodox Jewish people honestly have such little regard for the potential of human beings to believe that a mind fuelled by 'gentile' blood cannot absorb the ideas of, and a passion for, Judaism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-14300404265114228572011-06-15T13:43:21.815-04:002011-06-15T13:43:21.815-04:00I have a sincere question. Why is it that when a ...I have a sincere question. Why is it that when a Christian says he/she would not marry a Jew and only a Christian they're often considered anti-semtic but when a Jew says the same about only marrying another Jew there is no criticism - it is considered okay? Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-75133058182772193942011-06-15T08:41:46.762-04:002011-06-15T08:41:46.762-04:00Russians marry Russians, Italians Italians and Iri...Russians marry Russians, Italians Italians and Irish Irish because they're living in ethnically still pretty 'homogenous' countries. Yet they don't exclude the possibility of marrying somebody of a different heritage like you do. If somebody from a tiny minority (like Diaspora Jews but also Russians, Turks etc.) in a multicultural society like the US deliberately seeks only people within that minority it clearly shows he/she has an ethnocentric, suprematist or even racist agenda. <br />If you like it that way then just emigrate to Israel, which is as 'pure' as it gets and please just bring ALL your likeminded mates with you!<br />But then don't complain if also other ethnicities just wish to do the same, and we'll all happily live in a 'pure', racially segregated world.<br />Other ethnicities disappeared in the course of history by 'melting' into new nations (Visigoths, Longobards, Etruscans...) and the world didn't end because of that. It would be the same if you also disappear in the Diaspora by means of intermarriage. If you don't like it, as I said, just go to Israel. You shook the world upside down (and still doing it) to eventually obtain your ethnic homeland, then just be consequent...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-30383171689876841062011-06-15T07:51:23.002-04:002011-06-15T07:51:23.002-04:00I come from a very philosemitic, although majorly ...I come from a very philosemitic, although majorly atheistic family, being an atheist myself.<br />The greatest love of my life is Jewish. A woman I will love above and beyond everything, to my deathbed, no matter if I find love again or not. I wasn't a kid when we met, actually we were both well in our-mid 20's, in college. <br />She broke my heart, leading me on the bridge of suicide, one of the main reasons invoked by her for our relationship never to materialize, being the fact that I am not Jewish. In the words of Chaplin, I indeed do not have the honor. <br />I took on a therapy, but I doubt it will do any good, even if I keep it up for the next 27 years, like Woody...<br />Now, when I read some comments - or hear from close Jewish friends -going on at lenghts about interrmariage causing a nearly renewed-holocaust, I sometimes wonder if those people stating them are truly measuring the consequences of such devastating nonsense. This is idiocy at its most sublime, for I know it not to be racism. Not that blunt narrow-mindeness is any better than the latter. <br />What kind of perverted logic makes my devoted feelings fall into the abyss of reductio ad Hitlerum???? <br />Feeling pain for one's children marrying outside a religion??? <br />Try losing your job, your friends, and a member of your family out of depression, for they had lost the will to fight cancer, by witnessing the downward spiral my life had taken. And my absolute ineptness to fight for my life back; it took my a burial to do so!!!<br />Try that, and see how it feels. Try it, and then we'll talk. <br />To Natalie: Shalom, amie, et longue vie!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-37847501697425184662011-06-15T06:27:06.375-04:002011-06-15T06:27:06.375-04:00Thankfully the jewish faith is based upon peace an...Thankfully the jewish faith is based upon peace and introspection, nonviolence and world peace, as is hinduism... And it hasnt been radicalised by numerous wars with europeans and arabs.<br />that said, i dont believe that marrying someone of the same faith is true to principles of friendship and openness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-74771606684690470472011-06-15T06:12:25.264-04:002011-06-15T06:12:25.264-04:00Mazal Tov to Natalie and Benjamin. The most import...Mazal Tov to Natalie and Benjamin. The most important thing is that they will be good parents, spend quality time with their children and have a happy marriage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003330.post-26129116454944514002011-06-15T00:30:48.114-04:002011-06-15T00:30:48.114-04:00At least he's White. Religion = 5000 years ol...At least he's White. Religion = 5000 years old. Judaism = 3000 years old. Whiteness = 100,000 years old. There's no comparable tradition. Judaism is a flash in the pan, and race will be around long after it's gone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com