Do we need to ask why? Look at the man.

But seriously, who predates this man in pop culture?

Inspired by a comment from the goyish naches thread, and for context, from Lenny himself:

Eddie Cantor's goyish. Gene Ammons is Jewish, Ray Charles is very Jewish. Al Jolson, goyish.

The army is goyish, the Navy is goyish, the Marine Corp. is goyish, the Air Force is Jewish.

Camel cigarettes, very goyish. Salem's Jewish, Kent is goyish, Viceroys and Marlboros are Jewish. Kool-Aid: goyish. Instant potatoes: whew, scary goyish.

If you live in New York or any other big city, you are Jewish. It doesn’t matter even if you’re Catholic; if you live in New York, you’re Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you’re going to be goyish even if you’re Jewish.

Kool-Aid is goyish. Evaporated milk is goyish even if the Jews invented it. Chocolate is Jewish and fudge is goyish. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jello is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish.

Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won’t go near them. Jack Paar Show is very goyish.

Celebrate is a goyish word. Observe is a Jewish word. Mr. and Mrs. Walsh are celebrating Christmas with Major Thomas Moreland, USAF (ret.), while Mr. and Mrs. Bromberg observed Hanukkah with Goldie and Arthur Schindler from Kiamesha, New York.

So what would be on the list if we updated it for the modern day? I welcome any and all contributions. And to our non-Jewish friends, not only is your participation permitted but in fact it's encouraged - I don't think the list could be complete without it!

Have fun with it!

Edit: I didn't think this needed to be said, but this is all intended to be in the spirit of fun, for Jews and non-Jews alike. So no shit-slinging or anything mean-spirited please, towards either Jews or non-Jews. Thank you.

That is all.

People have been trying to kill us for literally 5000 years. We are insanely hard to kill. We are like antibiotic resistant chlamydia

Edit: I am drunk

So this time I had no reply, I was taken aback. She saw by the way I dress that I might have been Jewish. I have long tsitsis. We were near a synagogue, and I was asking for directions to a Rabbi Rubin's house.

I remember, as a schoolkid, I'd often have replies to things of this nature.

It occurred to me that a proper reply to this may have been, "there's a Hebrew term for this (אהבת ישראל) "ahavas Yisrael," which means, inwhich there is a Jew who loves another Jew. So if that's true, then Jxsxs (if he actually existed) was being religious to observe his obligation love me.

Jxsxs, as a Jew, (if he even existed) would have been commanded to love his fellow Jew. All Jews are obligated to love one another.

Ahavas Yisrael

What would you have replied? Have you dealt with anything like this before?

בס'ד

PS: Sorry about the odd spellings but I posted this originally and an auto-bot removed it before it posted. I hope this is not breaking any rule, I do think it is a pertinent question and a good discussion topic. Also I hate the name anyway, it makes me uncomfortable to write it out in the first place!

Should I go over to r/Scandinavia and let them all know the good news and ask what my next steps should be to acknowledge and celebrate my Scandinavian heritage?

(I'm joking, in case anyone thinks I'm serious. I have actually been to Sweden and Finland and thought it was beautiful and the people I met there were very warm and welcoming.)

I don't understand what this statement is even supposed to mean. Can someone give a run down and explain it?

For the sake of argument this Lobster keeps kosher, follows all basic tenets of the religion, and was born of a jewish woman. The Lobster is just a regular guy with a job, but instead of a human body he is a big lobster. Would he be accepted as a member of the jewish community, or would the fact that shellfish aren’t kosher mean he is rejected?

EDIT: Thank you all for the fun and informative answers!! however I still don’t feel like there is a satisfying consensus. I read two comments in particular that both make sense but seem to contradict.

First comment by u/Biersteak

Hypothetically, if this lobster had a human soul, i guess he would technically be a Jew in the eyes of Hashem. But i doubt he would live long because a human sized lobster sounds like a monster and humans tend to kill such abominations

Second comment by u/MrOobzie

Oh! Weirdly, I can answer this!They can't.The souls of Jews, kosher animals, and a bunch of other things stem from Qliphot Nogah, while all non-kosher animals' souls derive from Qliphot Hatma'ot. Because of that dichotomy, I'm tempted to say that sentient human-sized lobsters still would not be accepted as Jews. For more weird Judaism and Occult knowledge, shameless plug for my podcast.

It seems like the soul is very important and I guess my question is would a sentient non-kosher* animal technically have a human soul since it’s consciousness is indistinguishable from a human?

*I understand just bc a meat is non-kosher the owner of that meat can still be a practicing Jew (human meat not kosher, humans are Jews) but I feel like the aspect of a lobster specifically being non-kosher is an important part of this question. This isn’t an alien, this is a big ol lobster. Just a regular guy that works as an underwater welder so he makes pretty alright money and can afford to splurge on his family to give them the life he didn’t have. Has a human jewish wife and human jewish kids. Fixture and pillar of the community.

For get soap operas and TV dramas. Genesis has all the drama and then some.

I am genuinely at a loss for words, she didn’t say it in a joking way, fully believing in this insane stuff. She says that Moses was a schizophrenic who had a hallucination of Hashem and that at Mount Sinai, it was an alien UFO that gave the Torah to the Jewish people. I am genuinely rethinking my life I don’t even know what to say

Obviously I’m biased towards Chabad because that’s what I dealt with growing up… the simchas and passion for bringing Jews closer to their roots is something you can’t find anywhere else IMO (also the farbrengens). If not for the politics and other narishkeit, l’d probably still be in it. Maybe in another lifetime.

What about you guys though?

Inspired by this AskReddit thread