{"id":5793,"date":"2008-10-04T19:48:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2008-10-04T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T04:03:34","slug":"gentlemen-start-your-engines-danielle-berrin-now-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen, Start Your Engines – Danielle Berrin Now Single!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month ago, the Jewish Journal Calendar Girl<\/a> wrote about her relationship with a rabbi<\/a> (the bloke who leads the twice monthly Friday night service at Ikar<\/a>). Shortly thereafter, the Jewish people’s brightest hope for the future broke up over what I’ll assume were musical differences.<\/p>\n

A kindly inquiring email on this topic by your humble reporter was not answered by Danielle.<\/p>\n

I’m now batting 0-2 in my emailing to Miss Berrin.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to get the hint.<\/p>\n

I peruse each issue of the Journal hoping to find Danielle’s summary philosophy on the meaning of the story she’s just covered.<\/p>\n

This week I hit paydirt with the following paragraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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While Heeb’s secularist, cultural attitude towards Judaism has ample room for overbearing Grandmothers, the self-hating Jew shield and shallow Jewish pride, it doesn’t much comment on the shared values implicit in such a community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why doesn’t the Journal relieve her of reporting duties and allow her to cut loose with her profound perspectives on living?<\/p>\n

I love the subhead on her rebbitzen article<\/a>: "They also serve: Rabbis’ spouses prove as diverse as roles they fill"<\/p>\n

Yeah, some of these spouses are so diverse that they are of the same sex as their partner. In Australia, we called them "poofters."<\/p>\n

Until I became spiritual, I’d call any guy I hated a "faggot."<\/p>\n

As a kid, I loved playing "smear the queer." We’d give a guy a football and then all tackle him in a healthy heterosexual way. The pleasure we took from this was hale and hearty, not queer and perverse.<\/p>\n

Given that the Jewish Journal Calendar Girl blog <\/a>was last updated Aug. 18, it appears to need life support much more urgently than its last subject — the recovering Joan Hyler.<\/p>\n

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