COMMENTS:
#1. May 23 2002, 08:33 pm
Rami: Maybe I missed it, but do you mind putting in a little capsule biography including a hint of which generation you are. You know, like "About Rami" on the side. I get that you're frum, although I don't know which frum-- Young Israel, per chance? No, that's not necessary to include. I'll just guess. Thanks a lot.
jardinblu
#2. May 23 2002, 11:50 pm
I read the essay, Rami. And it was good. I especially enjoyed the "yamaha." I don't follow sports at all. And for me the Jewish baseball issue is frozen for all time with Sandy Kofax. Having said that, I think you have a well-developed and genteel sense of the double identity phenomenon here in America which is true for you. But it may not be as pleasant for others.
jardinblu
#3. May 24 2002, 01:27 pm
"But that an American-born Orthodox Jew and a man who until months before lived in a Muslim village with no running water can be joined in a mutual dislike for the Yankees, it is surely a thing of beauty. "
I guess you are not aware of how condenscending that sounds. How do you know he was from a Muslim village without running water ? He may certainly have come from the capital of Senegal: Dakar. The contrast between you and him could have been written about with more finesse.
André P. (from Canada)
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