Exactly. It becomes anti-Semitism not when it criticizes the Israeli government, but when it relies on ancient anti-Jewish tropes to make its points (cartoons personifying Israel as a big-nosed Jew out of the pages of Der Stuermer), singles out Israel among all other countries in the world to equate with Nazis…

Hey, I liked it. (I was 8.)

That’s the reason for the Holocaust denialism. If they were to accept that it actually happened, it would undercut their fundamental belief that Jews control the world.

That’s why we made his daughter marry a Jew and convert. We control him now.

Absolutely. In Germany, nobody was actually a Nazi. In France, everybody was in the Resistance. The Austrians? “We were Hitler’s first victims.”

My mother — a Holocaust survivor — told me when I was a small child that my sister and I were her answer to Hitler. Quite a burden for a child to bear, although it was always understandable to me as a reaction to the loss of most of her family and almost half of the Jewish people in the entire world.

Just look at the majority of popular literature about Jewish families in the U.S.A. at the end of the 19th and early in the 20th centuries. It’s all about strict immigrant parents versus their American children wanting freedom.

She wasn’t the presidential nominee. Can you read?

Here are two interesting articles about the translations of the Torah by Robert Alter — treating it as literature. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-an…

Thanks for letting me know!

I was being a little facetious. I think I was, and am, allowed to be uncomfortable with the age difference if I want to be, regardless of what anyone says about true love.

I’ve never even heard of a mangosteen? Is that a Jewish mango?

Boy, that’s quite an assumption there about living a lie, isn’t it? Are you one of those people who doesn’t believe that bisexual or pansexual men really exist?

I don’t really agree with Judy Giuditta. I’ve always thought that it was perfectly OK for gay male friends of mine to call other gay men (face-to-face or otherwise) a “queen” or an “old queen” in a sort of semi-affectionate way — or even a “vile old queen,” an expression which I probably first heard 35 years ago in…

My son (who’s gay) just turned 26 and is still single, and he’s already a little concerned that he’s going to be past his “sell-by” date in a few years.

After my mother died when I was 20, my father first became involved with, and eventually married, a woman who was then 25 — 30 years younger than he was, and only five years older than me. They were together for more than 35 years until he died almost two years ago. I admit that it made me a little uncomfortable…

I suspect it comes from the same parts that prohibit Jewish people from consuming blood, and they interpret that to prohibit introducing blood into your body by any method.

I thought he didn’t have them replaced because it would have required blood transfusions. So it was possible he was in pain from that.

It was strange to know that when I was transitioning, there was a certain point beyond which I could have gotten arrested for being in public without a top on. (It’s not like I experimented to find out exactly where that line was, though.)

There have been stories like that forever, but nobody knows if they’re true. She also was part Jewish, according to some other stories.