Culture wars (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 02:35 (5205 days ago) @ George Jelliss


> I saw the wedding described as an "Interfaith" event. Doesn't the bride's religion get any consideration?
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> I had to look up who Tevya was. It seems he is the matchmaking character in "Fiddler on the Roof". So perhaps I'm taking this comment too seriously! It could be a Jewish joke.-Yes, I meant to be flippant. At my wedding to my Born-Again Christian wife, we married on Saturday also. But I was sensitive to the feelings of my observent Jewish guests (Orthodox and Conservative--I am neither) and we had our wedding after sundown, on Jewish Sunday, and still Christian Saturday. Still interfaith and yet caring about feelings. In an Orthodox or Conservative Synogogue it is polite courtesy for ALL men to put on a prayer cap. I am not practicing at a Jewish religious level, but I will follow traditions (see Tevya)in respect for others. Tevya is not the matchmaker, that is a woman called Yenta (see the Yiddish translation), but the traditional patriachial father who tried to honor the traditions and failed.-I can't speak for the groom, who appeared to be Conservative, but the Clintons ride roughshod over everyone, and they may have insisted on daylight.