I always wonder about the girls who get tattoos on their lower back, or stomach. I wonder what they're going to look like after a few pregnancies carried to term.

You wrote some great entertainment, and made the world a better place. We'll miss you.

Too bad you never got to physically travel into space...

Dien Bien Phu (sp?)

for powering your vehicle, there would be a major problem on Passover. I'd have to clean my car for leavened, which would be impossible, so I'd have to sell my car to a non-Jew for the 8 days of Passover.

is really Tanach. But anyways...

"When we start to pick and choose which Old Testament laws we will adhere to and which ones we won't"

You know, those Laws are only binding on Jews (according to those, like me, who hold by the Rambam's 13 Principles of Faith). Non-Jews have the 7 Noachide Commandments, which are separate, and only alluded to in the Written Torah.

Observant Jews, btw, always try to live "Biblically"; that author should have spent some time in Passaic or Lakewood NJ, or Brooklyn, he could have saved himself a lot of trouble. We try to observe as many Commandments as possible; not all are possible today, outside the Land of Israel, and some Commandments only are applicable if you violate another Commandment.

This is the lamest excuse I have ever seen. All programs have bugs (speaking as a developer with +20 years experience in all sorts of platforms and applications). I would be very surprised if the real answer is not one of the following three possibilities:

1) Moody's can't manage its own business.

2) Moody's is lying.

3) 1 + 2.

If it's in the dictionary, then it's OK, no?

It's amazing to me how many people in the US will understand the reference...

on women are just very sexy (and feminine).

My stubble is great for scratching mosquito bites on the back of my hand, but most of the women in my life have definitely preferred smooth face (or soft, short beard).

I've done the same thing...

And what about the vast majority of languages with male and female adjectives? I would imagine that except for sea horses, pregnant is solely a female adjective...

The use of numbers like "75", "3", "40" as "percentages", coming from prestigious organizations, really mislead people into thinking that this is an equation that can be answered. To really understand the conclusions represented by a single or two digit number would require a Talmudic intensity that almost no one (except for Mr. Leonard) is willing to expend.

It's made out of kosher beef, it's called beef fry, but we former secular-now religious Jews know it as kosher bacon. Completely substitutable, better than turkey bacon (which I preferred in my non-kosher days to pig bacon).

It's basically salty, savory, fatty candy.

The White Plague. It was the other way 'round, and very sad...

that a fetus is not a human being (Exodus 21:22-23), and doesn't become one until s/he takes his/her first breath.

Don't know what the Greek Bible says, but it always amazes me that we take such people seriously when they're too lazy to learn Hebrew.

FYI.

Bill Clinton appointed two of us serve on the Supreme Court, and they have better voting records than most. The Pharisees at Tikkun and The Nation are some of the most liberal people in the country. OK, we gave the country Roseanne, but can you hold that against us?

It means a piece of filth.

FYI

Every boy's experienced the inappropriate appearance of Mr. Happy (usually in front of the class, doing an oral report); every boy quickly learns how to subtly adjust himself to minimize embarrassment.

But without an inseam, would that still work?

Religious Jews (who are overwhelmingly very right wing) read the Bible, the Talmud and the Siddur (prayer book) from right to left. The direction in which you read the Siddur has a very strong correlation to whether a Jewish American is religious or not.

Yeshiva girls and boys spend at least half their day in Hebrew and Aramaic, btw.

Dukakis really started to make some headway after he started hitting back. It was only that he started hitting back hard about a week before election day.

1) Don't ask about my alimony agreement. After I tell you that talking about it makes me crazy, take that as a hint. Women are supposed to get hints, no?

2) Don't assume I get hints. I don't love you yet, and I'll only put in the effort if I'm really really into you. Be nice, but clear.

3) Don't do the 50% or 35% or 90% forgiven thing. Either I'm forgiven or I'm not.

4) Don't tell me how to drive.

5) Don't be 50lbs heavier than your picture. I will notice.

6) Don't start seriously making out with me if you're not comfortable with the possibility of your panties coming off soon afterwards.

"But charging interest is specifically forbidden by the Old Testament."

Torah only prohibits charging interest by Jews to other Jews. He's mocking a straw man, on this point at least.

"It is in the torah and the talmud that it's a good thing, dare I say a mitzvah, for a man to marry his sibling's daughter."

Uh, no, it's not.

"at various places in the Old Testament, it is prophesied that 'a virgin shall give birth'"

Again, no, it's not.

is just another TV preacher, selling his no religion as the One True Faith.

I am indeed Jewish (Orthodox), and I really enjoy arguing with Rabbis, I do it all the time. Sorry, you're still wrong.

Remember, if you read the Bible from left to right, you're reading it backwards.