Itamar Treves-Tchelet
Die neuen Juden
Wir fahren mit der Straßenbahn. Wir sitzen auch ab und zu im Kaffeehaus. Wenn man richtig hinschaut (und zuhört…), kann man uns sogar beim Wiener Schnitzel naschen erwischen. Beinahe echte Wiener sind wir schon geworden. Und neuerdings, man trifft uns sogar in der Synagoge. Jawohl, meine Damen und Herren: Die Wiener-Israelis haben das Judentum wieder entdeckt! Aber bevor wir einen feierlichen Kigel backen und die Gläser erheben, müssen wir noch einiges gestehen, ja uns sogar entschuldigen.
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Viennese Cowboy in the Middle East
Click here for the Hebrew version
The two brown horses gallop lightly on the famous Viennese Ringstrasse. Calmly, ignoring all the cars driving by, from left and right. “This part is called Karl-Lueger-Ring, after the former Mayor, who happened to be a big Anti-Semite. Last week I heard that the city is going to rename it – justified I must say”, the carter explains, surprisingly in Hebrew! Well, not an academic Hebrew, “but good enough for the kitchen”, he admits.
Yom Hazikaron 2012
On this day, we commemorate the 22,993 fallen Israeli soldiers, and thousands of Israeli Terror victims, who lost their lives for the sake of the State of Israel.
I took upon myself to free-translate a poem, written by Giora Fischer, who lost his son Merom (Moses) during a military operation in Jenin in 2002.
The hebrew version:
תְּפִילָה/ גיורא פישר
מִי יִתֵּן
וְאֶהְיֶה כְּבָר זָקֵן
מְבֻלְבָּל.
אִם אָז אֶשְׁאַל:
לָמָּה הוּא לאֺ בָּא לְבַקֵּר?
אַל תּאֺמְרוּ:
אֲבָל, הוּא נָפַל
לִפְנֵי הֲמוֹן זְמַן.
אִמְרוּ:
הוּא הָיָה פֺּה אֶתְמוֹל
וְאָמַר שֶׁיָּבוֹא גַּם מָחָר.
The english version (free translation):
Prayer/Giora Fischer
If only
I am already old,
confused.
If then I asked:
Why didn’t he come to visit?
Don’t say:
But, he has fallen
long ago.
Say:
He was here yesterday,
and said he would come tomorrow again
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The amazing story of Marko Feingold
When I asked Marko ‘Max-Mordechai’ Feingold, the President of the Jewish Community in Salzburg, about his feelings after lying a “Stolperstein” carrying the name of another Nazi-victim, the old man just put his hands on the left chest, as saying: “my heart stops beating for a moment”. This was the 150th time his heart lacked this very heartbeat since he initiated the project in his hometown in 2005. Not the healthiest thing to do when you are a Holocaust survivor and you approach the age of 99. But Feingold does not care.
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Stories of post-Nazi era
I have just returned from a journey through several Extermination Camps in Poland. The stories that you’re about to read, simply popped up during this terrible but wonderful trip (which included a feature magnificent coincidence). Also, I sincerely think that every person deserves to visit Auschwitz at least once, the same way as everyone deserves to experience pure happiness, at least once. This good-evil-good axis is also commonly known as…life.
Yellow
…the old man looked a bit odd. His hair untidy, his glasses out of fashion. He behaved very insecure. Nobody wears these pyjama-like brown shirts anymore. Especially not with a yellow Star of David on the chest. For 200 EUR you can get one of those, second hand though, but still yellow. “Our revenge is the fact that we both are still here”, I said to him. “We are still living in Naziland”, he answered.
All I could do was simply getting out of the very non-kosher McDonald’s…
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10 proofs that Eric Cartman is Jewish
I love Southpark. No, it’s not that I haven’t grown up since Junior High.
OK, maybe…please don’t judge me! But now seriously: the reason why I like it so much is that nowadays, this is the only way to enjoy (very) nether humor as an adult. I mean, where can you find another show that takes all the happenings in this world, as paramount as they may be, and reduces them to the simplest, rejecting and line-crossing toilet-humor? I say only that politics has never seemed so interesting ever since this show was aired. And please, let us have only Idiots as world leaders!
And if you like Southpark, you cannot-not have a special place in your heart for Eric Cartman. This little disgusting, spoiled, furious, homophobic, piggy and foremost anti-Semitic cub… READ MORE
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