I loved the program strictly kosher as a jjewish women living in a none jewiish house hold anymore it brings back some good memories for me as i know longer follow any religon at all both my parent was jewish and both sides of the milys on my thers side they was very orthadox i know long have any communication with my mily as both my parents have now past away some years ago and i was like an out cast in many ways because i did not follow my religon and went my own way .I think this program was a great insite to the way jewish people live and the great community they have . I choose to live my life without religon and asr as im concerned if you help people and are good to others then you get your rewards in llife in heaven above
As an English-Scottish-German-Australian-Jewish cross-breed, I was most attracted to Joels non-dogmatic approach simply because he came across as the most open and tolerant, though it was not hard to also warm toconcentration camp survivor JackAizenberg, who regarded his grandsons barmitzvah as not so much a cultural rite of passage as a V-sign to the Nazis. Bernettes husband accepted that many Jewish communities are, by nature, insular but argued that the outside world has not been very kind to us. Curiously, now that the outside world is being a lot kinder to Jews, thestest-growing community in Manchester is the ultra-orthodox. There are comparatively few documentaries you wish had been twice as long; this was one of them.
Rev. Abraham: There is no such thing as moderate Islam. You mentioned moderate Muslim and you need to define what a moderate Muslim is. But lets go back to moderate Islam: There is no such thing. Islam is locked on a seventh-century Arabian religion.
I came to the conclusion that British Masters was a classic case of using 20/20 hindsight to make an artist fit a theory. A real shame because it promised much more.
Id like one about an orthodox jew who supports QPR and all the scrapes that ensue on a Saturday. Or what about an pro-diaspora jew married to an anti-diaspora jew living next-door to a palestinian muslims. Or how about…
However inward-looking some Jewish communities may be, they dont come close to the BBC. I had wanted to review Rageh OmaarsTheLife of Muhammad (BBC2) as it promised to be the first film to examine the life of the prophet. The films producer had also wanted me to review it. The BBC said there had been one private screening last Tuesday and thatI had missed it. The Guardian explained that I had not received an invitation; the BBC replied it would be unir for them to arrange another for me. The gospel preached by the BBC is one of tough love. I realise that any film about Muhammad is potentially sensitive but, given that Omaars intention was to demystify Islam, it unavailable for review seemsoddly counter-productive.
And it was annoying to be constantly told that this artist was the greatest X, that painting was the greatest Y, without having any frame of reference for what was happening elsewhere in Europe.
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It is NOT that women need to go to a bathhouse before they have .
I dont know, you get plenty of Christian people who would never describe themselves as religious but will still baptise their children, get married in a church etc. Im not saying its my choice, Im not religious so would never have a christening for any future children (Ive no interest in marriage at all so a church wedding is a moot point) but theres plenty of people who do it.
Otherwise an interesting and well thought out programme.
I enjoyed it, though I found Bernette a bit wearing.
Islam is a socio-political system- not a religion.
Im not sure the likes of Lewis and Spencer are neglected these days, but it was nice to see some time spent on Nash and Bomberg. That extract from Nashs letter to his wife was pretty bloody powerful.
Is There Such a Thing as a Moderate Islam?
I hope one day for the documentary about the day the whole of Humanity realised it should live for itself and each other, not for a mythical creature. Believe in yourself and the people you love.
If it just been presented as, heres a neglected aspect of British art that I think deserves a second look it would have been fine. But he made claims for the paintings and the artists that he simply couldnt back up, and overall it came across as hyperbole. What a shame.
And yes, why did he have to stand in front of so many of the paintings he was talking about? Why did he show us so few?
I enjoyed the British Masters, knowing very little about Vorticism-I found the progarm illuminating. so much so i spent a few hours on the net researching people like Wyndham Lewis
I enjoyed British Masters, though I agree the hyperbole did get in the way a bit. Its undoubtedly true, as Fox pointed out, that Wyndham Lewis wasnt a nice man. But describing him as one of the most poisonous minds of the 20th century is overdoing it a bit.
Husband and wife are not allowed to touch AT ALL during the womans period, and for 7 days without blood thereafter.A woman is required to go to the mikvah after these 7 without blood days and thereafter the husband and wife are again allowed to touch, and then naturally to have .It is NOT that women need to go to a bathhouse before they have .What utter nonsense you have made of this ritual by taking it out of context.
SanityRestored - yes, well, any tradition, religious or not, can look ridiculous outside its historical, cultural and sometimes religious context.
I just wished we could have seen more of the paintings rather than numerous clips of modern life, of which were all very well aware.
Quite possibly–the connection between mikvah night and ovulation is certainly well known. In ct, there is a condition known as halachic infertility whereby the woman ovulates prior to mikvah.
He had been entertaining enough on the individual painters and I had learned a great deal about their art not difficult, as I knew next to nothing before but I was none the wiser as to why so many of these painters appeared to have been overlooked outside Britain as good, but not great, artists so quickly. If these works are the timeless masterpieces that Fox claimed, surely someone, somewhere else in the world might have noticed? Still, I guess you have to expect a little hype in the art market. Or maybe, as some of the Manchester Jews would say, tradition is all just a matter of ith.
The programme also presented the idea of inteith marriages as simply not done… well, the option wasnt even spoken of. Personally, I like having a mix.
So youve got that side of the moderates, who are just doing their thing, just as we have a lot of Christians in our churches who know nothing about the Bible. You see somebody who comes to church, does his thing, but then something happens in his life and he says, You know, I need to seek God. I need to be more serious about Christianity. And he starts reading the Bible and God starts speaking to him, convicting him, and he becomes excited about what God is saying and he starts talking about how God is taking care of him and his mily. So he becomes a more active Christian and more ithful to God. Hes no longer just a nominal Christian sitting in the pew keeping that seat warm. Its the same thing with Islam. So youve got that one side of the nominal Muslim.
Any observant person who came into contact with a corpse or men who have had a seminal discharge (to name a few examples) would also go to the bath house for purification.
Just want to clear a few things up about Strictly Kosher:
What utter nonsense you have made of this ritual by taking it out of context.
Then youve got the other side, the second kind of moderate Muslim. People like Dr. [M. Zuhdi] Jasser from Arizona, who was featured in a documentary, The Third Jihad. He is a Muslim medical doctor of Syrian heritage who is speaking out against the jihad and the violent side of Islam. He wants to reform Islam, but he cant. Hes a reformed Muslim, as a human being. He likes the Constitution, and he was in the Navy for about four years. He served thitrue religion uks country ithfully. I like him. Hes a reformed Muslim, but he cannot reform the religion, or the ideology. The ideology is locked.
From a long interview (1/11/2010) in The New American magazine with Rev. Elijah Abraham. Rev. Abraham was born and raised as a Muslim in Iraq, but converted to Christianity.
And why did Dr Fox stand in FRONT of the paintings a lot of the time, thus obscuring our view?
TNA: Is there such a thing as a moderate Muslim?
A woman is required to go to the mikvah after these 7 without blood days and thereafter the husband and wife are again allowed to touch, and then naturally to have .
Husband and wife are not allowed to touch AT ALL during the womans period, and for 7 days without blood thereafter.
Ive always found the wearing of a yarmulke by orthodox jews interesting in that one head must be covered at all times whilst observance dictates that the other head will be uncovered forever.
Rituals worth observing are the ones that are mandated by Jewish law. The idea of having through a hole in the sheet is a myth and is not practised by anybody, so thats definitely not worth observing. Arranged marriages, in the sense that spouses are chosen by the parents and the couple do not meet before the wedding, dont occur. I guess the ultra-Orthodox can have short dating periods, but its not like the couple dont have any choice in who they marry.
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I completely agree that I wished Strictly Kosher had been longer. Speaking as someone who considers himself half Jewish but is actually gentile according to the laws of Jewish ith (I have a Jewish ther and Christian mother), its a window into a world Im not really part of. Im probably like a great many Jewish Brits: we love the culture and feeling of community, but we live incredibly secular lifestyles.
We often tend to lump everyone from the same ethnic background into the same box and call them a community. But asStrictly Kosher (ITV1), Chris Malones affectionate portrait of Jews living in Manchester, made clear, theres no such thing as an identikit Jew and, beyond a shared cultural allegiance, there are actually several different Jewish communities living near-parallel lives that only occasionally appear to intersect.
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And otherwise it sounds so sane.
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Oh, and self-indulgent it may have been, but I think he had a pretty good stab at Zang Tuum Tumb.
true religioTV review: Strictly Kosher; British Masters,Theres Joel, the non-Kosher, non-religious owner of a womens clothes shop, for whom being Jewish is mainly about mily and having a good time. His daughters Bollywood batmizvah was a multicultural extravaganza. Theres the observant Bernette, for whom the Sabbath is a day of absolute rest the food has to be pre-cooked and the toilet has to be pre-torn. Id have liked to have heard more from her as it wasnt entirely clear how she differentiated between those rituals worth observing and those not. She laughed at the idea of having through a hole in the sheet, yet found it utterly normal to be asked to go to abath house before having presumably the men are naturally clean and saw nothing odd in arranged marriages. And then there are the ultra-orthodox Jews, of whom we saw very little. Presumably they did not want to be filmed.
Roughly speaking, a woman would be coming towards her time of peak fertility after that 7 day period of abstinence from intercourse. Maybe, like a lot of rituals, the origins of this are logical, in this case improving the chances of pregnancy?
>it wasnt entirely clear how she differentiated between thotrue religioTV review: Strictly Kosher; British Mastersse rituals worth observing and those not.
Yes Strictly Kosher was superb. Religious symbols are endlessly scinating and its amazing that some habit dictated by a bronze age tribal leader becomes so embedded in a culture.
Really enjoyed Strictly Kosher, for once a documentary that didnt start with the premise Lets poke fun at the Jew boys and their funny rituals. Mr Aizenberg was a gem of a find for the makers, erudite, strong, archetypal I suppose, a true survivor. His experiences drove him, yet they didnt seem to completely rule his life, in ct they seem, if its possible, to have enriched it. He had a handle on life and living that few of us have, we stroll through life and dont take much notice of it, Joe knew the value of life and made sure he used every second.
Strictly Kosher was an odd show for ITV to broadcast as it was quite enjoyable.
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Roughly speaking, a woman would be coming towards her time of peak fertility after that 7 day period of abstinence from intercourse. Maybe, like a lot of rituals, the origins of this are logical, in this case improving the chances of pregnancy?
British Masters was horribly self-indulgent, giving the presenter every opportunity to ham it up and act out scenes from the artists life - music hall acts, bicycling round French country lanes - if an artist did it, so did he. It also seemed to be the case that the more Fox was impressed by the artistss lives for their integrity, or their struggle, the more he liked their art.
Nothing earth-shattering but yeah, good.
The Jewish religion does not by any means view men as clean and women as dirty.
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Observant Jewish women go to the bath house 7 days after menstrual bleeding stops. The cleanliness mentioned, is spiritual and not physical. Menstruation involves the ejection of an egg and therefore has an element of death. The immersion marks the end of this period of spiritual uncleanliness. Only after this period (of abstinence, not menstruation) can a man and woman have intercourse.
Yes but the ct that people choose to ignore the idea of having through a hole in the street, and then other people can argue about this on the internet, just proves how ludicrous religion really is!
men who have had a seminal discharge (to name a few examples) would also go to the bath house for purification.
jokes
British Masters seemed too overcome with hyerbole at times to be a solid history - bigAlittlea you are almost definitely right about PW Lewis, i imagine he actually he come rather low on the evil spectrum. However it was a pretty absorbing show which hit with a knockout punch at the end with Spencers chapel paintings. Incredible! I never really had an interest in such a scinating artist before this programme.
The idea of having through a hole in the sheet is a myth and is not practised by anybody, so thats definitely not worth observing
Observant Jewish women go to the bath house 7 days after menstrual bleeding stops. The cleanliness mentioned, is spiritual and not physical. Menstruation involves the ejection of an egg and therefore has an element of death. The immersion marks the end of this period of spiritual uncleanliness. Only after this period (of abstinence, not menstruation) can a man and woman have intercourse.
On a night of otherwise delicate andnon-judgmental documentaries Icant be sure, but Id put money on Omaars not being a hatchet job the iconoclasm all came fromBritish Masters (BBC4). In the opening episode of his three-part series, art historian James Fox stirred things up by declaring that Picasso, Dali, Mir, Jackson Pollock et al were basically a bit rubbish and if you wanted to find the true Michelangelos of the 20thcentury then you need look no further than British artists Sickert, Wyndham Lewis, Nash and Spencer. Its not a view Ive ever heard anyone put forward before and, while Im still open to persuasion, I wasnt at all sure Fox had made his ca se by the end of the first episode.
What Id REALLY like to see is a documentary about those who Jews who live in the community but are gay, or choose not to marry or have kids….
I had a lot of time for Jack, 60 years in paradise and may he have many more.
yet found it utterly normal to be asked to go to a bath house before having presumably the men are naturally clean
Let me redefine Islam: Islam is not really even a religion. Thats a key point. Its a socio-political system that uses a deity to advance its agenda. Why do you think Islam is doing what its doing in the West, and being allowed the freedom to do what it is doing without being confronted? Because Islam passes itself off as a religion and thus, under the Constitution of the United States, has the protection of freedom of religion and therefore the protection of a religion to exist. If the United States finally comes to its senses and acknowledges that Islam is a socio-political system not a religion, so we need to reclassify what Islam is then the fight is on. Then we will address Islam just like we addressed Naziism, scism, communism, and all these ideologies.
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I thought Bernette was an absolute diamond. What a shame that even she as a comparitively un-orthodox Jew is having to bow to peer pressure for ever stricter conformity by wearing a wig at all times. Of course she laughed it all off whilst on camera, but I think that the insular ultra-orthodox Hasidic values and doctrines that are seemingly permeating and gaining credence throughout the Jewish community are an ever growing powder keg just waiting for a spark and are a cause for genuine concern.
I think also British art probably does punch above its weight in the market actually , especially Spencer, Hockney …Bacon, Freud…
Rev. Abraham: There are two types of moderate Muslims. First, let us talk about an American. Youve got a moderate Muslim who really doesnt know anything about Islam. All hes doing are the five pillars of Islam the best he can. He prays five times a day. Its a memorized, repetitive prayer. When I was four years old, my ther prayed, and I heard his prayer. We brought him to the United States, and I heard him pray and it was exactly, word for word, what I remembered from when I was a child. All hes doing is the five pillars of Islam to appease Allah. Hes doing his duty. Now, if he decides to be ithful, and be serious about Islam, and really dig deeper into Islamic theology and history and the life of Mohammed, then hes got two choices to make. He either becomes Osama bin Laden, or leaves Islam for another religion or becomes agnostic. I have some friends who are former jihadists. They used to work for PLO, Hez-bollah, Hamas, and so on. The deeper they dug into Islam, they realized there was something wrong, and they started looking into really spiritual things. They left Islam and became Christians.
However, just like walking the streets of Stoke Newington after dark - it was a tad sinister.
But Joel, the non-Kosher, non-religious owner of a womens clothes shop seemed just daft - whatever the ith, either you believe or you dont. So if you want to be religious, be religious. If you dont, dont. Dont just pick it like some shion accessory because you ncy a bit of a do.
I think we were supposed to wonder at the jollity and attraction of living in a religeous fundamentalist society.
The sad mixed in with the happy mixed in with the ritual mixed with the frivolous all in the right proportions.
TNA: Since September 11, 2001, there has been a great deal of talk about moderate Islam and moderate Muslims. Is there such a thing as a moderate Islam that Mohammed would have recognized as genuinely Islamic?
The bathhouse is called a mikvah and it is a ritual that women partake in after their menstruation.
This article is lacking in basic knowledge of the Jewish religion- ridiculing its laws without an understanding of them-it is shameful that such ignorant commentary is published.