In Jesus’ name, boogity, boogity, boogity Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Brad A. Greenberg ” title=”The Tennessean” target=”_blank”>The Tennessean</a></i>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Most of all, thank you for Roush and Yates partnering to give us the power that we see before us tonight,” Nelms said, referring to the engine manufacturers for some of the cars. He went on to thank the Lord for the “Sonoco racing fuel and Goodyear tires that bring performance and power to the track.”</p> <p>Later in the prayer, Nelms channeled his inner Ricky Bobby when he delved into gratitude for his family.</p> <p>“Lord, I want to thank you for my smokin’ hot wife tonight, Lisa, and my two childre, Eli and Emma, or as we like to call the, ‘The Little E’s.’ ”</p> </blockquote> <p>Certainly you’ve seen the prayer by now. It was on Sportscenter last night and has been mentioned by a lot of papers. My old friend and colleague Sarah Pulliam Bailey took a look at some of the <a href="http://www.getreligion.org/2011/07/thanking-god-for-that-smokin-hot-wife/ <view-source:http://www.getreligion.org/2011/07/thanking-god-for-that-smokin-hot-wife/>” title=”coverage at GetReligion” target=”_blank”>coverage at GetReligion</a>, and she wasn’t sold on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talladega_Nights:_The_Ballad_of_Ricky_Bobby <view-source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talladega_Nights:_The_Ballad_of_Ricky_Bobby>” title=”"Talladega Nights" reference” target=”_blank”>“Talladega Nights” reference</a>.</p> <p>But I was. Much as you might not expect a Southern Baptist, which Nelms is, to be watching Will Ferrell movies, it’s difficult to imagine a Southern Baptist from the South or Bible Belt missing anything concerning NASCAR.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/94492/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">In Jesus’ name, boogity, boogity, boogity</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94493 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-david_suissa category-opinion tag-amy-aeinhouse tag-anders-behring-breivik tag-hitler tag-john-wayne-gacy tag-mass-killing tag-musicians tag-oslo tag-terror ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94493" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/94493/" rel="bookmark">Musicians Kill Only Themselves</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/94493/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/opinion/david_suissa/" rel="category tag">David Suissa</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Susan Freudenheim" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/susan-freudenheim/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Susan Freudenheim </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>I’d love to know if, in the long history of human evil, a great musician ever became a mass murderer. I ask this question because I’ve always had this crazy theory that when someone is busy and obsessed with creating and playing music, he or she doesn’t think about killing other people.</p> <p>For example, I can’t imagine Amy Winehouse expunging her rage by going to a gun shop and mowing down people who trigger that fury. Similarly, I can’t imagine Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik going on his rampage if his passion had been playing the guitar and writing great songs. He might write protest songs to convey his anger, but chase down kids and kill them? I don’t see it.</p> <p>Of course, I might be completely and stupidly wrong on this. I have never seen any formal evidence for my theory. In fact, there’s evidence that mediocre painters who get rejected by art schools (Hitler) or who paint silly clowns (John Wayne Gacy) don’t turn out very well. But I’ve observed many artists up close over the years, and, especially with musicians, one thing I’ve noted is that most of them pour their hearts into their art and music above all else—even above their most valued human relationships.</p> <p>That’s because, from what I’ve seen, their true love—their deepest passion—is for their music. Nothing satisfies their egos or constant craving to create quite the same way. Their music is their spouse, lover, best friend and sibling all rolled into one. Unfortunately, often it’s also their drug dealer. Creating and playing music can be as addictive as doing drugs. In the case of Winehouse, the two acts seem to have merged.</p> <p>But for all the tragedy of her death, who lost the most? Who lost a life? Her family and friends are devastated, yes. But who is dead and who is alive?</p> <p>Breivik, however, is still alive, and 76 people are dead because of him. Maybe they are dead because he had no other way to express himself but through violence.</p> <p>I can only lament that he was not a passionate and tormented musician whose hatred for foreigners had led him to overdose on cocaine rather than bullets.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/94493/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Musicians Kill Only Themselves</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94498 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-uncategorized ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94498" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/94498/wave-your-freak-flag-high-and-the-american-disabilities-act/" rel="bookmark">Wave Your Freak Flag High and the American Disabilities Act</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/94498/wave-your-freak-flag-high-and-the-american-disabilities-act/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/blogs/" rel="category tag">Blogs</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Michelle K. Wolf" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/michelle-k-wolf/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Michelle K. Wolf </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>“We spend our whole lives wishing. We weren’t so freaking’ strange.<br /> They make us feel the pain. But it’s they who need to change”<br />—Gingy (The Gingerbread Man) in Shrek, the Musical</p> <p>This week we are celebrating the 21st anniversary of the American Disabilities Act (ADA), the landmark Federal civil rights legislation signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990. It was quite expansive in what it covered and the overall goal was to make American society more accessible to persons with disabilities in many different ways – employment, public services, public accommodations, telecommunications and protection from retaliation for persons who assert their rights. It was, and is a very big deal for people with disabilities, especially in the area of physical accesibilities in which the design of government buildings literally locked people out from having a voice. </p> <p>In religious life too, the ADA has had a huge impact because as synagogues and churches have been renovated or built new, they have generally followed ADA regulations even though not mandated to do so, and added in ramps, elevators and disabled parking spaces. </p> <p>However, there is still much to be done in taking down the many social and financial barriers for people with disabilities, such as ensuring that adults with disabilities have full access to community-based services and supports, as well as meaningful employment opportunities.</p> <p>For us personally, the ADA means that we can easily take Danny out with his stroller or walker into every part of the community and enjoy all that is available, from the Hollywood Bowl (although those elevators really need to be enlarged and modernized) to The Empire State Building. One of our favorite places is the Pantages Theater, which was built in 1930 and filled with historical charm; they have created two small disabled seating sections with ramp access on either side of the orchestra section. Starting with “Wicked” in 2007, we have taken Danny to see many musicals such as “Mama Mia” and “West Side Story” (and then ended up getting the DVD version for repeated viewings at home). </p> <p>On Sunday, we went to the matinee showing of “<a href="http://www.shrekthemusical.com/about.html" title="Shrek: The Musical" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shrek: The Musical</a>” and Danny was mostly enchanted with seeing the movie come to life on the stage, including dancing rats and a huge dragon puppet, although he was annoyed at any deviations from the movie version.</p> <p>One of the highlights is when all the “fairy tale” character misfits come together and mobilize themselves to fight back against the tyrannical Lord Farquaad, singing an anthem of empowerment, “Wave Your Freak Flag High.”</p> <p>It was one of those “we’re not gonna take it” moments of people power over unjust authority, and the audience, including all the little kids present in the audience clapped heartily at the end. When the show was over, we wheeled Danny in his stroller into the lobby. Many of those same kids stared, some a little scared, some curious and some with hostility. Just as I was feeling down, an older African-American woman came by. “Did you enjoy the show?” she knelt down and asked Danny. “Yeah” Danny answered. “God bless his soul” she said to us and walked away.</p> <p>As Pinocchio said at the end of the song, “I am wood. I am good. Get used to it.”</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/94498/wave-your-freak-flag-high-and-the-american-disabilities-act/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Wave Your Freak Flag High and the American Disabilities Act</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94499 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-is_featured_20110628 category-israel category-lead_story category-news tag-housing-crisis tag-israel tag-netanyahu tag-poor tag-settlements tag-students ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94499" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94499/" rel="bookmark">Netanyahu unveils plan to combat housing crunch</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94499/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/lead_story/" rel="category tag">Lead Story</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled sweeping housing reforms in Israel.</p> <p>Netanyahu convened a news conference with his finance and construction ministers Tuesday to announce a plan under which Israel will provide low-rent housing for students and the poor, ease regulations on land and realty sales, and improve public transportation from cities to their periphery.</p> <p>The prime minister said the “huge changes” stemming from the plan, called “Residence in Reach,” would start going into effect next week, ahead of the Knesset’s summer recess.</p> <p>“The housing crisis in Israel is a real crisis,” he said in comments carried live on television and radio. “It is not something that somebody is fabricating nor something that is artificial. It is a real problem and anybody with eyes in his head and empathy in his heart understands that this is a problem.”</p> <p>According to the findings of a newspaper survey, Netanyahu’s popularity has been sapped by escalating Israeli demonstrations against the high cost of living.</p> <p>The Haaretz poll published Tuesday found that 32 percent of Israelis are satisfied with the prime minister, while 54 are not—an almost exact reversal of data from a May survey cited by the liberal newspaper when Netanyahu was riding high from the standing ovations he received after addressing the U.S. Congress about his vision for peace in the Middle East.</p> <p>National priorities have since shifted to economic woes, with doctors going on strike for better wages and conditions and hundreds of young people camping out in tents and staging street demonstrations to demand lower property prices.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94499/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Netanyahu unveils plan to combat housing crunch</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94501 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-israel category-news category-norway category-worldwide tag-envoy tag-israel tag-norway tag-oslo tag-svein-sevje tag-world ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94501" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94501/" rel="bookmark">Envoy compares terror in Israel, Norway</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94501/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/norway/" rel="category tag">Norway</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/" rel="category tag">Worldwide</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Norway’s ambassador to Israel drew distinctions between the Oslo and Utoeya massacres and Palestinian terrorism.</p> <p>Svein Sevje said in an Israeli newspaper interview Tuesday that while the Norwergian bomb and gun rampages that killed 76 people and Palestinian attacks should both be considered morally unacceptable, he wanted to “outline the similarity and the difference in the two cases.”</p> <p>Palestinians, the ambassador told Maariv, “are doing this because of a defined goal that is related to the Israeli occupation. There are elements of revenge against Israel and hatred of Israel. To this you can add the religious element to their actions.”</p> <p>“In the case of the terror attack in Norway, the murderer had an ideology that says that Norway, particularly the Labor Party, is forgoing Norwegian culture,” Sevje said, referring to suspect Anders Breivik, a Christian nativist who is opently anti-Islam and anti-immigration.</p> <p>Unlike European Union states, Norway has engaged Hamas and often been fiercely critical of Israel, to Jerusalem’s dismay.</p> <p>While Sevje voiced sympathy for Israeli terror victims, having experienced “the inferno” of such attacks during his posting, he saw little chance of Norway reviewing its Middle East policies.</p> <p>“We Norwegians consider the occupation to be the cause of the terror against Israel,” he said. “Those who believe this will not change their mind because of the attack in Oslo.”</p> <p>He added, “Can Israel and the Palestinians solve the problems without Hamas? I don’t think so.”</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94501/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Envoy compares terror in Israel, Norway</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94502 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-is_featured_20110628 category-israel category-news tag-israel tag-oslo-accords tag-shimon-peres tag-world ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94502" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94502/" rel="bookmark">Peres: Oslo Accords still hold</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94502/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Israel denied a report that it may declare void the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians.</p> <p>President Shimon Peres, one of the architects of the 1993 interim peace accords, said Tuesday that he “checked out” a Haaretz report that the Netanyahu government might call off the accords should the Palestinians press ahead with their unilateral statehood bid at the United Nations.</p> <p>“There is no basis for this, no basis. It is a a journalistic rumour without basis,” he told Arab journalists convened at the President’s Residence in honor of next month’s Ramadan holiday.</p> <p>“I say this because in my opinion, all countries must honor their commitments, otherwise there would be no point in signing agreements,” the former Israeli prime minister added. “If you sign and then cancel, why sign?”</p> <p>Peres also praised Syrians rising up against the regime of Bashar Assad.</p> <p>“I was surprised, and I am full of wonderment at the fortitude of the Syrian people against their ruler,” he told the Arab reporters.</p> <p>“It is easy to demonstrate, but when they fire live bullets at you and there are already 2,000 dead, and there are thousands and tens of thousands in jails and the people do not retreat, it instills in me appreciation for their bravery and their seriousness.”</p> <p>The Netanyahu government was at first reticent about the Syria revolt, which erupted in March and has been partly led by Islamists deeply hostile to the Jewish state. By contrast Assad, like his father and predecessor Hafez Assad, has held fitful peace talks with Israel.</p> <p>More recently, Israeli officials such as Defense Minister Ehud Barak have predicted that Assad’s regime will not last. But warm words for the revolutionaries from Israel have been rare.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/94502/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Peres: Oslo Accords still hold</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94503 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-arts category-hollywood category-is_featured_20110628 category-news tag-cheryl-hines tag-comedy tag-curb tag-curb-your-enthusiasm tag-entertainment tag-hbo tag-hollywood tag-humor tag-larry-david tag-seinfeld ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94503" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/94503/contrary-to-type-larry-davids-not-at-all-neurotic/" rel="bookmark">Contrary to type, Larry David’s not at all neurotic</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/94503/contrary-to-type-larry-davids-not-at-all-neurotic/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/" rel="category tag">Entertainment</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/hollywood/" rel="category tag">Hollywood</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Three adjectives are often used to describe Larry David, the star and creator of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which recently premiered its eighth season after two excruciating Curb-less years. </p> <p>One is “bespectacled,” which is fair enough. Another is “bald,” a signifier that David’s television alter-ego regards as a traditionally oppressed tribal identity (spitting in biblical fury when the assimilationists among this imagined fraternity of the hairless attempt to “pass” under the camouflage of a baseball cap or, God forbid, a toupee). Finally, and most ubiquitously, he is “neurotic.”</p> <p>“Larry David plays himself as a bald, bespectacled neurotic,” The New York Times wrote in a review of the new season.</p> <p>“Larry David plays a neurotic fussbudget named Larry David,” The Washington Post said in 2010. </p> <p>“He’s officially an L.A. neurotic,” the New York Post recently bemoaned. </p> <p>Far be it for me to argue with writers for such august publications. But having said that, I don’t think any of these people actually knows what “neurotic” means, other than a word you swap in when you think it’s impolite to say “Jew.”</p> <p>I can’t speak to the inner tumult of the real Larry David, the writer and actor behind the bald, bespectacled mask. I’ve never met the man. (If I ever did, we either would circle each other silently in a moonlit forest clearing before gently pressing our foreheads together like unicorns performing a mating rite, or within five minutes each lie dead by the other’s hand.) Yet by any measure — and certainly compared to his Jewish comedic contemporaries — Larry David is a character remarkably free of internal conflict. </p> <p>Psychoanalytic theory holds that neurosis occurs when the different parts of the personality are at war with each other. Now think of Larry David: He has no internal conflicts; he’s difficult, but he’s content.</p> <p>Not for him the unrelenting angst of Albert Brooks or the comically tattered sense of self-esteem of Richard Lewis (a frequent “Curb Your Enthusiasm” guest star). As for the Grand Emperor of Neurotics, Woody Allen (and David’s director in the 2009 film “Whatever Works”), the two men’s public personas could hardly be more different. Apart from the glasses, the Brooklyn accent and their Jewishness, David is, in effect, the anti-Allen.</p> <p>Skeptical? Consider, for a start, their attitudes toward women. A defining theme in Allen’s oeuvre, women are no more than an afterthought in David’s, and the latter gives his female stars far more interesting things to do. (Just think of Susie Essman’s volcanically foul-mouthed Susie Green.)</p> <p>David is no romantic; he wouldn’t have lasted five minutes with a whimsical naive like Annie Hall.</p> <p>In the first episode of “Curb” latest season, David’s divorce from Cheryl is finalized. First, though, there is a possibility of reconciliation, which David characteristically bungles. Cheryl leaves and then David just cuts to his divorce lawyer one year later. One can imagine Allen commemorating this event with a sentimental montage of happier times; Larry is more concerned with Dodgers tickets and whether his divorce lawyer is lying to him about being Jewish.</p> <p>Nor does sex hold him in any particular thrall. In a recent episode, as Jeff, Leon and Marty Funkhauser are rendered all but catatonic by the bodacious ta-tas on Richard Lewis’ burlesque-dancer girlfriend — Lewis, in true Allen fashion, can only bring himself to admit he admires her for her mind — Larry calmly slurps his drink and later matter of factly informs her that she has a mole on the underside of her right breast that she really ought to get checked out.</p> <p>In all realms, sexual David is refreshingly un-creepy. In the world of “Curb,” Jeff and Susie’s teenage daughter, Sammy, is Larry’s antagonist. In the world of Allen’s films, she’d be a love interest.</p> <p>Their relationships with technology are at odds as well. Compare Allen’s famous war with machines to Larry’s primal rage at vacuum packaging. Allen blames himself for his difficulties. With Larry, it’s the package’s fault. For David, the conflict is always external, and this lack of introspection characterizes virtually all of his interpersonal actions.</p> <p>When David refuses to add an additional tip for the servers at the country club, the problem isn’t his parsimony, it’s the server’s greed. He feels similarly in the right when he tries to rescind his order for Girl Scout cookies or screams at the neighborhood kids for serving him subpar lemonade. Why should he allow himself to be taken advantage of?</p> <p>As far as Larry is concerned, his only problem is the unreasonableness of others. He might come off like kind of an a—hole, but that’s your problem, not his. He’s a self-actualized a—hole.</p> <p>It’s tempting to ascribe David’s blind unconcern for the feelings and good opinion of others on his immense fortune, which is alluded to, if rarely explicitly stated — if I had half a billion dollars, I probably wouldn’t care what anyone thought of me either. But Larry seems utterly unimpressed by the trappings of wealth — he still buys his pants at Banana Republic, for God’s sake — and as such, I propose his bizarre self-confidence comes from another, deeper source: Virtually alone among his peers, Larry David has absolutely no ambivalence about being a Jew.</p> <p>From his disgust at Cheryl’s enormous Christmas tree, to the glee with which he hangs a mezuzah with his father-in-law’s special Christ Nail, to his inadvertent rescue of a Jewish man from a mildly coerced baptism, David’s outlook is essentially tribal. To him, a Jew trying to pass as a gentile is as ridiculous as a bald man in a toupee. David’s comic pose is less that of the anxious assimilationist eager to fit in than that of the clueless greenhorn making his way in a world to which he’s not sure he cares to belong.</p> <p>Or perhaps he’s even more atavistic than that. Neurosis is often defined as a focus on behavioral minutiae that can border on the obsessive-compulsive, but Larry’s many preoccupations, from the unwritten laws of dry cleaning, to the proper way to treat chauffeurs, gardeners and other laborers, to the irrevocable uncleanness of certain objects (pens that have seen the inside of Jason Alexander’s ears, $50 bills laced with Funkhauser’s foot sweat) recall another endless litany of unbending edicts: the Book of Leviticus. Larry David isn’t a neurotic; he’s just demanding. Like the God of the Hebrews. He can be kind of an a—hole, too.</p> <p><i>This was reprinted from <a href="http://www.Tabletmag.com" title="Tabletmag.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tabletmag.com</a>, a new read on Jewish life.</i></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/94503/contrary-to-type-larry-davids-not-at-all-neurotic/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Contrary to type, Larry David’s not at all neurotic</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94461 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94461" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/94461/" rel="bookmark">Religious answers in Norway massacre?</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/94461/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default">Uncategorized</span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Brad A. Greenberg" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/bradg/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Brad A. Greenberg </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p><a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/in_jesus_name_boogity_boogity_boogity_20110725/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/in_jesus_name_boogity_boogity_boogity_20110725/>” title=”As I mentioned” target=”_blank”>As I mentioned</a>, there was another really big story with religious elements this weekend: Anders Behring Breivik.</p> <p>His rampage left <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/us-norway-idUSL6E7IN00C20110725 <view-source:http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/us-norway-idUSL6E7IN00C20110725>” title=”at least 93 dead” target=”_blank”>at least 93 dead</a> and, according to the <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24europe.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss <view-source:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24europe.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>” title=”NYT” target=”_blank”>NYT</a></i>, “put spotlight on rise of right-wing sentiment in Europe.”</p> <p>But what is a “<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/23/world/la-fgw-norway-attacks-20110724 <view-source:http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/23/world/la-fgw-norway-attacks-20110724>” title=”Christian fundamentalist” target=”_blank”>Christian fundamentalist</a>” if Breivik fit the bill. Jerry Falwell must be rolling over in his grave. Or that Breivik “<a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/bloggish/item/was_anders_behring_breivik_anti-semitic_20110723/ <view-source:http://www.jewishjournal.com/bloggish/item/was_anders_behring_breivik_anti-semitic_20110723/>” title=”might even be a pro-Israel, philo-Semitic racist Nazi” target=”_blank”>might even be a pro-Israel, philo-Semitic racist Nazi</a>?” Jews everywhere must be thinking, With friends like these, nu …</p> <p>The religion elements to this story are still working their way out. Despite a Muslim group originally claiming responsibility, it appears that Breivik acted alone. And it turns out he is a rabid anti-Muslim.</p> <p>As Mollie at <a href="http://www.getreligion.org/2011/07/the-atlantic-has-the-terrorist-all-figured-out/ <view-source:http://www.getreligion.org/2011/07/the-atlantic-has-the-terrorist-all-figured-out/>” title=”GetReligion points out” target=”_blank”>GetReligion points out</a>, there is a still much to learn:</p> <blockquote> <p>The terrorist, it turns out, is vehemently anti-Muslim. Apart from that, the mixture of information we’re getting about the man is very hard to synthesize. I saw his Facebook page before it was removed. It had only been started a few days ago and featured a professional headshot, no friends and a listing of YouTubes featuring some of his favorite classical and trance music. In his “information” section, it included a list of his favorite books and influences, including Swedenborgian philosopher William James and the books On Liberty, 1984, The Trial, War and Peace, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Critique of Pure Reason, The Prince, Wealth of Nations, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Leviathan, The Divine Comedy and The Republic. On Facebook, he self-identified as Christian and conservative.</p> <p>In this lengthy listing (49 pages) of writings the alleged shooter posted to a message board, there’s a paragraph or two devoted to his religious views. We learn that he’s a Protestant (of his own “free will”) who wishes that the Church of Norway would just convert back to Rome, he dislikes priests who wear jeans and support Palestinians, and that he thinks the modern church is dying. We know from other evidence that he is a Free Mason.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the deputy police chief announced that the shooter was a “Christian fundamentalist” but no one has reported either the evidence for the claim or how the police determined that. Whatever the case, he may be the only Freemason, Rome-leaning, Protestant fundamentalist in the world.</p> </blockquote> <p>Breivik doesn’t want to stay silent, and something tells me the mystery behind his motivations will become horrifyingly clear really soon.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/94461/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Religious answers in Norway massacre?</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94505 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-culture category-is_featured_20110628 category-news tag-benjamin-netanyahu tag-debbie-wasserman-schultz tag-eric-cantor tag-gabrielle-giffords tag-jon-stewart tag-mark-zuckerberg tag-natalie-portman tag-sarah-silverman ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94505" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/94505/" rel="bookmark">Zuckerberg, Bibi head list of Top 50 Jews</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/94505/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/" rel="category tag">Culture</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Mark Zuckerberg and Benjamin Netanyahu head The Jerusalem Post’s second annual list of the world’s 50 Top Jews.</p> <p>Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, adds his No. 1 finish in the Post survey to his Person of the Year award from Time magazine. He is followed by Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister.</p> <p>American names include U.S. Reps. Eric Cantor (No. 13), Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (14) and Gabrielle Giffords (26), who was seriously injured in a shooting in January. One slot behind Giffords is Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show.” Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman (24), writers Nora Ephron (33) and Jeffrey Goldberg (35), and actresses Natalie Portman (38) and Sarah Silverman (49) also appear.</p> <p>Five rabbis were relegated to the lower part of the list—39 to 43—with Rabbi Richard Jacobs, president-elect of the Union for Reform Judaism, as the only non-Israeli.</p> <p>The list leans heavily toward Israeli personalities, with some of the other choices widely unknown even among avid students of Jewish macherdom.</p> <p>Few “Jeopardy!” contestants may be able to identify Orna Barbivai (44), the first female general in the Israeli army; Job Cohen, head of the Dutch Labor Party (46); or Ivan Glasenberg (47) and Bertie Lubner (48), two wealthy South African businessmen.</p> <p>Completing the list: Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli in 50th, though readers of the Sports Illustrated swimming suit issue, whose cover she graced in 2009, were said to have lobbied for a higher ranking.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/94505/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Zuckerberg, Bibi head list of Top 50 Jews</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-94506 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-obituaries tag-alfred-skondovitch ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-94506" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/obituaries/94506/" rel="bookmark">Alfred Skondovitch, 84, abstract expressionist</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/obituaries/94506/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/judaism/obituaries/" rel="category tag">Obituaries</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Alfred Skondovitch, an artist whose work was displayed with prominent Abstract Expressionists in the 1950s and who later relocated to Alaska, where his artwork continued unabated but out of the mainstream limelight, died July 15 at 84.</p> <p>Skondovitch was “one of Alaska’s master artists” and was known for “original, colorful, abstract paintings, which were deeply personal.”</p> <p>Artist David Mollett described Skondovitch’s work as “a cross between Willem de Kooning and Marc Chagall” whose “paintings were really of the quality of that first generation of abstract expressionists.”</p> <p>From the late 1940s through the early 1950s, Skondovitch, then in New York, participated in exhibitions at prominent galleries such as Rienzi and Egan/Poindexter, where his work was side by side with that of de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Nell Blaine and Milton Resnick.</p> <p>Skondovitch was born in England to Russian Jewish immigrants, and later studied with the German Expressionist Hans Hofmann in New York. He visited friends in Alaska, where he fought forest fires and met his wife, Patti. They briefly returned to New York but decided to raise their family back in Alaska and settled in Fairbanks.</p> <p>His daughter, Lara Duke, said her father always felt sadness about not finding more success in New York but was determined to retain his artistic individuality, despite being out of step with typical Alaskan art.</p> <p>Skondovitch mentored Alaskan artists, taught classes and continued to exhibit throughout Alaska for decades. His last individual showing was held earlier this year. A Facebook page of tributes to him drew numerous personal and artistic tributes.</p> <p>In a statement on his website, Skondovitch said, “I produce my art because I have to, the way other people breathe. I have worked since childhood. In order to express myself I must get the ideas in my head on paper or canvas. My life is my art, just as my family is my life. I feel you are influenced by others in your art and you also influence others—it is this cauldron that makes the artist.”</p> <p>He said his last paintings would be landscapes in tribute to Alaska and the life he led there for decades.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/obituaries/94506/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Alfred Skondovitch, 84, abstract expressionist</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> </div> </main><!-- #main --> <div class='ast-pagination'> <nav class="navigation pagination" aria-label="Post pagination"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Post pagination</span> <div class="nav-links"><a class="prev page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2011/07/26/page/2/"><span class="ast-left-arrow">←</span> Previous</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2011/07/26/">1</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2011/07/26/page/2/">2</a> <span aria-current="page" class="page-numbers current">3</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2011/07/26/page/4/">4</a> <a class="next page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2011/07/26/page/4/">Next <span class="ast-right-arrow">→</span></a></div> </nav></div> </div><!-- #primary --> </div> <!-- ast-container --> </div><!-- #content --> <footer data-elementor-type="footer" data-elementor-id="354962" class="elementor elementor-354962 elementor-location-footer" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-16ff2513 elementor-section-full_width printhide elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="16ff2513" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-306cf8ff" data-id="306cf8ff" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-73c841ca elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="73c841ca" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-41944ee6" data-id="41944ee6" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-58f0ac64 rm20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-site-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="58f0ac64" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-site-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com">Jewish Journal</a></h2> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-29de7e30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="29de7e30" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> Connect. 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