Archive for the 'Judaism' Category

Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?

Cidu Bill on Dec 29th 2008

  • Where would you find more Jews: in temple on Yom Kippur, or in Chinese restaurants on Christmas?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Christmas, Judaism | 23 responses so far

I’d Like to Hear the Explanation

Cidu Bill on Aug 27th 2008

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That’s a mezuzah, which Jewish families place next to their doorways (sometimes next to the doorways of each room inside the house or apartment, as well). There’s a scroll inside the mezuzah, on which is written the Shema, an important Jewish prayer.

The comic is portraying it very accurately, right down to the angle at which the mezuzah is supposed to be positioned.

Knowing all this, however, doesn’t explain the actual joke (though the concept itself is pretty funny, if a bit obscure to many of the non-Chosen).

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Judaism, cats, comic strips, comics, humor, mezuzahs, mice | 27 responses so far

Trivia Fact of the Day

Cidu Bill on May 20th 2008

In the Muslim faith, anybody born to a Muslim father, regardless of the mother’s religion, is a Muslim (which might have implications in the case of Barack Obama); while Judaism uses the opposite rule, that a child is Jewish or non-Jewish depending on the mother — under the logic that you can be 100% certain who the mother is, but…

(None of this is to say, of course, that parents can’t and don’t raise their children however they see fit; but this is what Muslim and Jewish law dictate)

Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Islam, Judaism, Muslims, religion, trivia | 13 responses so far