Re: Nu?

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:53:57 +0000 (UTC), micha@xxxxxxxxxxx (Micha
Berger) wrote:

Eli Grubman <eli.grubman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:05:49 +0000 (UTC), micha@xxxxxxxxxxx (Micha
Berger) wrote:
Eli Grubman <eli.grubman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Even though Yiddish is pretty much a dead language - the lingua franca
(or rather judaica) of a handful of Holocaust survivors?

And of many Chassidim, many with family sizes of 6 children and up...

Even in Israel? I thought that (the language, not the 6 children) was
a diaspora thing.

It would mean Yiddish isn't a dying language even if the phenomenon
weren't in Israel.

But it is. I often post the following irony.

I am what they call a Zionist. I march with my kids' school at the
Salute to Israel Parade down 5th Ave in Manhattan. One year, I did the
route twice -- once with one school, than ran back to the beginning in
time to do the route with another school. I lobby for Israeli causes,
attend rallies, etc...

My first cousin is what they call an anti-Zionist. He moved from Silver
Spring Maryland, a bastion of MO Zionism, to a community where his
daughter studied in Yiddish, Herzl is disdained, and the State of Israel
considered one of the major roadblocks in the coming of the messiah.

Did I mention he lives in Ramot Polin, Jerusalem?

It's an ironic world where the anti-Zionist is the one who made aliyah,
as opposed to the alleged Zionist who lives in Northern New Jersey.

It's far from being a unique situation. Sometimes the most ardent
Zionists are to be found many thousands of miles from Israel.

The decision to make aliyah or not is obviously very much a personal
one, with all kinds of factors, e.g. ageing parents, to be taken into
consideration.

Would it be heretical (for lack of a better word) to suggest that for
some people the concept of Zionism is more appealing than the
(present) reality?

Eli

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