What were Jesus and his apostles doing at the famous "Last Supper"?

Yup, enjoying Passover seder. Cool huh? :)

Let it be remembered down through the ages that three Jewish boys started Draft James Webb and effectively brought the Webb for Senate campaign public.  We did the IPO!  How cool is that?

With gracious and humble thanks to all who agreed with our remarkable instinct for victory.  Would never have happened without the Brigades.

But you also have to have a lot of trees.  (A good wind helps too.)

Thanks for providing the match ...and the fan.

Rumor is that our meshugah former Senator is planning to celebrate by eating ham sandwiches on matzo...

The most important holiday is Shabbat - or the Sabbath, which occurs every Friday at sundown and goes until the first star can be seen on Saturday night.

The second most important set of holidays, known as the High Holy Days, is Rosh Hashonah, the New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

Passover, when Jews were led out of slavery and received the 10 Commandments and the Torah is next.

And I actually fail to see the humor in this. I know none of you means to be offensive but this insults more than George Allen.  Or do you not remember that stupid cartoon fiasco from last year?  There were really lots of people in the Jewish community who did not know RK or Jim Webb or any of us who were genuinely puzzled, hurt and offended.

I'm really not the PC police but can we please be more careful?

by Jewish Democrats because of a pathetic desperation claim made by the Miller campaign?

And George Allen is the one who actually got offended by claims he knew to be true, about his mother's jewish background. It's one thing to refute the rumor, but to take it as an insult the way he did was disgusting. I don't plan on letting anyone forget it anytime soon.

Despite everything that happened in 2006, George Allen got off easy. Quote me on that.

Let's not forget the pork chops/ham sandwich comment.  George Allen is just wierd, and that didn't start with the last campaign.  He was lucky it didn't go on longer; there was more in his background to explore, but the election results cut any further investigation short.  I fully expect that if current Republican efforts to rehabilitate George Allen are successful, a black family will step forward and let us know that they found a deer head in their mailbox.  How will that look?

Actually, Happy Passover to all who celebrate it.

.....whom I've met.  I wasn't paying close attention to Chris's post.  I'm always looking for an opportunity to talk about the Jewish connection to social justice.

And I'm not so sure George Allen got off easy.  I heard somewhere (Did Lowell forbid writing about this? He's such a gentleman.) that he's separated from "dear, wonderful" Susan.  If he is seriously thinking about running for Governor or Senator, he is a really sad, dumpy looking guy who likes to stand around at other peoples' houses pigging out on watermelon.

Cheers.

And I am sorry to tick anybody off.  But I was irritated on two levels.  One, I was legitimately annoyed that somebody got the theology wrong.  I'm a comparative religion geek so that's important to me.  Sorry.

But even more, I have a visceral dislike for kicking somebody when they are down.  I had heard the rumors about Allen's separation.  No, he didn't get off easily.  He blew national political aspirations and became a household joke across America because of one unguarded moment.

Did he deserve it?  Yes.  But it had to hurt.

Also, I suspect his poor reaction to learning of his Jewish heritage was probably not so much anti-semitism as embarrassment.  He had built up a Southern personna for so long and now he was being exposed as a bigot and a fraud to boot.  I also suspect the bigotry had more to do with the romance of the dashing Confederate image than with true hatred.  I think he never got over adolescent fantasies and misread Southern culture, which is not about being a bully.

That's my psycho-babble for the day.

But I also have a visceral dislike for kicking any person when they are already down.  It's called being a sore winner and all of us are much better than that.  All of us.  We want genuine social justice and I think we are all much more compassionate than that.  Let's not let our dislike for Allen cloud that.

And I am not a Jewish Democrat.  I am a Democrat who happens to have been born Jewish. I also converted to Catholicism and then became an agnostic about organized religion (but not about God).  Some people don't fit into easy stereotypes.  But in a week that is holy to two major faiths I'm gonna put in a plea for honest compassion.  Even for Allen.  We don't always have to be in campaign mode.

Shalom, Pesach Samech, and Happy Easter!

No way.  This is the guy who promised to knock our soft teeth down our whiny throats, and he would if he could.  Allen's loss was based on a lot more than "one unguarded moment."  It was based on a lifetime of bigotry that he barely attempted to conceal, and that the media nonetheless failed to report throughout his career.  That bigotry was revealed late in the last election season, when the media could no longer ignore it because of Youtube.  I went to U.Va. in the '70s and I knew many, many smug, bigoted Republicans like George Allen.  He understands winning and losing, and nothing more.  He is now ensconsed in YAFfer heaven, talking and listening to only far right-wing people who agree with his narrow views, and planning his political rehabilitation.  True compassion requires that we do anything possible to prevent this.