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The TSR Jewish Society (J-Soc) - thread TWOFrom gemgems89:
Continued from the last thread which is closed because of oh so many posts.
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Re: The TSR Jewish Society (J-Soc) - thread TWOI've sacrificed my chicken whilst facing East.
L'chaim and Cheers to JSoc MK*2 (that looks like a type of gun).
Here's to great spamming, education, laughs, chats and peace in the Middle East.
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Re: The TSR Jewish Society (J-Soc) - thread TWOName: Gennady
Location: New York City
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Nonreligious
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi
Kosher?: Nope
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Anything that walks on 2 or more legs.
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach (more days off from school )
Channukah or Purim: Channukah (same reason as above)
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Jerusalem Post
Keep Shabbat: Nope.
Youth Group, if any: None right now.
Education: starting Masters in International Relations.
Future Plans: Get a real job.
Name: Anthony
Location: London, UK
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Belong to an Orthodox shul, Liberal personally tho.
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi.
Kosher?: I don't eat pork, other than that no.
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Can I have chicken soup??
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach, I never really observe Shavuot.
Channukah or Purim: Channukah, mmm doughnuts...
The Jewish Chronicle or The Jewish News: Don't like either, horribly biased!
Name: Jonathan
Location: London
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Orthodox
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Sephardi
Kosher?: I try!
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Both! But not together, that's not allowed
Pesach or Shauvot: Shavuot! (what lunatic would pick matzah over cheesecake?)
Channukah or Purim: Chanukah
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Jerusalem Post!
Keep Shabbat: Nope
Youth Group, if any: ex-JYSG, ex-Maccabi, ex-JLGB, ex-BBYO
Education: Law at Nottingham Uni
Name - Elliot
Location - London
Affiliation - Orthodox - If you want somnething done right, you have to do it properly
Race - Sephardi thru and thru
Kosher? Yup
Smoked Salmon or Chopped liver - Smoked Salmon all the way!
Pesach or Shavout - Pesach, yummy matzah
Chanuka or Purim - Purim
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Both
Keep Shabbat - Kinda
Youth Group - Not affiliated (gone through habonim, BA and FZY)
Education - A Levels (Human Bio, RS, and Ivrit)
Name: Victor Feinstein
Location: London, Twickenham
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Liberal
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi
Kosher?: Nah
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Absolutely love both
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach
Channukah or Purim: Channukah
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Jewish Chronicle
Keep Shabbat: Most of the time
Youth Group, if any: LJY Netzer
Education: A levels
Future Plans: Maybe go to Israel for a gap year after Uni
Name: Zafar (Socrates)
Location: Londin, UK
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): None
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: N/A.
Kosher?: I eat halaal since my family are Muslims, which is similiar I understand...
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Smoked salmon.
Pesach or Shauvot: N/A
Channukah or Purim: N/A
The Jewish Chronicle or The Jewish News: JC
Name: Carl
Location: Bordeaux, France
Jewish Affiliation: Bizmarck, Gems, Helzerel...I'm guilty by association oh and Jesus was a Jew too, can't forget him!
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: ummmm
Kosher?: no way!
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: whatever your mum cooks up Gem
Pesach or Shauvot: still not decided.
Channukah or Purim: Hannukah!
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: The Independent
Keep Shabbat: If by Shabbat you mean turning all the lights off, then no
Youth Group, if any: Youth Group are a great band
Education: Currently double undergrad degree at Sciences Po Bordeaux/Cardiff University
Future Plans: Work abroad and preferably within the diplomatic corps.
Name: Tom
Location: Cambridge / Oxford
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Jewish by blood, Athiest by practise
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: ..............yes?
Kosher?: Bacon Sandwich with a glass of milk
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Smoked Salmon
Pesach or Shauvot: ............fifteen?
Channukah or Purim: Christmas.....
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: BBC news website
Keep Shabbat: Nope.
Education: PPE Oxford
Future Plans: Muscian or something ... maybe a teacher
Name: Aditya Balachander Nickname: Tex/Texas(I lived in Texas for a eight years, so my mates in Uni redubbed me)
Location: Houston/ University of Sheffield
Jewish Affiliation: None, Hindu
Askenazi or Sephardi: Think of me as avMizraim
Kosher: Surprisingly, yes. I usually wind up inadvertenly keeping various degrees of Kosher due to my dietary preference.
Smoked Salmon or chopped liver: Smoked Salmon (only old people like chopped liver, its easy on their dentures)
Pesach or Shauvot: Close one, but have to say Pesach
Channukah or Purim: Channukah
Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Jewish C, yea baby.
Keep Shabbat: inadvertently, yes.
Education: LLB in European, International and Comparative Law, University of Sheffield
Future Plans: LLM, or take the BVC.
Name: Jonathan Silver
Nickname: Anything you can think of. I'm pretty much universally Jonny but I may grow out of that soon.
Location: Bedford
Jewish Affiliation: the observant end of Liberal
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi. You want I should answer honestly, nu?
Kosher: yeah. I wait an hour after fleishiks before my cup of tea and all my meat's kosher, but I only have one set of (chametzdik) dishes and stuff.
Smoked Salmon or chopped liver: Chopped liver, preferably cooked gently and moist with egg and onion
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach, if only for the Nirtzah bit of the seder... oh, and being able to spread avocado on matzo.
Channukah or Purim: I get a headache on Purim so Chanukah. (I just burn my fingers then.)
Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: JC, although my mum's stopped getting it because apparently I don't read it! I do!
Keep Shabbat: by my standards, yeah
Education: Doing A levels and hoping to study Biomedical Engineering in London in October.
Future Plans: Biomedical R&D engineer or concert violinist or surgeon or something...
Name: ~nat~
Nickname: er..... nat?
Location: Manchester
Jewish Affiliation: shamefully unobservant (i.e. born Orthodox, but not it in practise!)
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi all the way!
Kosher: no well, in my house I kind of eat kosher, do the milk and meat thing, etc. Plus I've rekindled my love for kichels (I think that's how you spell it!)
Smoked Salmon or chopped liver: Smoked salmon - actually, I've just had a smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel, how Jewish can you get?!
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach - it's a lovely family festival, plus the only time of year when I'm truly kosher!
Channukah or Purim: Chanukah - my favourite festival. Ever.
Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: JT, although both are just awfully biased/pompous so in truth neither....
Keep Shabbat: nah
Education: Doing A levels at the moment.
Future Plans: Haven't a clue - uni from next year, then who knows?
Name:Aaron
Location: London
Jewish affiliation: Secular
Ashkenazi or Sefardi: Mixed
Kosher?:Not Kosher
Smoked Salmon or chopped liver: Liver!
Pesach or Shauvot:Pesach - its so nice
Channukah or Purim: Channukah - gifties
Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: JC
Keep Shabbat: dont keep shabbat
Future Plans: A levels then university (but not a really Jewishy one - sorry)
Name - Aron
Location - London
Affiliation - born orthodox now secular
Race - Ashkenazi
Kosher? not really
Smoked Salmon or Chopped liver - Liver all the way!
Pesach or Shavout - Pesach
Chanuka or Purim - Chanuka
Jewish Cronicle or Jewish Telegraph- never heard of the telegraph
Keep Shabbat - no
Education - final year of school A2s
Name: Ross
Location: London
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): i'm orthodox in the sense i'm registered to an orthodox synagogue, but i don't observe the religion that closely. whilst i'm very proud to be jewish i have some issues with the religion in terms of not agreeing with certain rules and laws and much of it seeming to dated.
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi
Kosher?: at home for meat, and i dont eat pork or shellfish.
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: don't really like either give me a shwarma anyday!
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach
Channukah or Purim: Channukah
[b]The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph:[/u] has to be the JC!!!!
Keep Shabbat: nope
Youth Group, if any:[/u] i was the chairman of the jewish society at my school and we had an affiliation with aj6.
B]Education: HOPEFULLY A2 levels haha! find out on thursday, then to oxford brookes if i get the grades
Name: Prince Paul
Location: Right here, right now.
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Liberal!!
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Does the ashkenazi come with fries? .... And the shepherd?
Kosher?: Im totally legit.
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Big Mac.
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach. It lasts longer.
Channukah or Purim: You're making these words up now...
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Daily Mail.
Keep Shabbat: No, I share. Im generous.
Youth Group, if any: Young Offenders Institute.
Education: Experience.
Future Plans: Im banking on winning the lottery.
Name: Rashid
Location: Sri Lanka
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Err... I'm muslim
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: I like to eat mutton, not the bloody shephards! Where'd you people come from?
Kosher?: Halaal first, kosher second
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Gemma
Pesach or Shauvot: Eid-ul-Fitr
Channukah or Purim: Biltong...
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Lebanon Wire
Keep Shabbat: No, i would like to have a free day though!
Youth Group, if any: N/A (The Al-Qaeda juniors club )
Education: ...dum de dum...
Future Plans: Finish and qualify as a lawyer and management accountant and move to Saudi Arabia
Name: Yasmine
Location: North London
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc):Orthodox
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Full on Safi
Kosher?: Yup
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Neither I don't do fish..
Pesach or Shauvot: Shavuot.. but only because of the cheesecake... mmm
Channukah or Purim: Purim, such jokes
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: JC
Keep Shabbat: Yup
Youth Group, if any: Been to a few.. JYSG, Bnei Akiva and FZY
Education: Just finished A levels at Hasmonean
Future Plans: Going to sem next year, then onto Uni to do business management.. Then get married and have lots of babies
Name: Milly/Mili (whichever one you like).
Location: Bedford in holidays, boarding school in term time.
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): No particular affiliation (family not observant). Somewhere in the middle.
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi.
Kosher?: Yep, completely.
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: I'm also vegetarian.
Pesach or Shauvot: Shavuot for the cheesecake, Pesach for everything else.
Channukah or Purim: Channukah.
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Neither, but I do read Haaretz online every day.
Keep Shabbat: Yep. Not as well as I'd like to though.
Youth Group, if any: None.
Education: Starting 6th form in September.
Future Plans: Get some A levels, gap year, then either Music or Politics (IR maybe) at uni.
Name: Zack
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, Amurrica
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Conservative/Masorti
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Sephardi by way of Vienna, Amserdam, and Spain.
Kosher?: No. I love Crabs too much.
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Neither of the two. Matzah Ball Soup, Ruggelach, and Kugel for me.
Pesach or Shauvot: Ehh, don't really celebrate Shavuout... but the songs are pretty. I'd say Pesach; it just feels great.
Channukah or Purim: Chanukah
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: Neither.
Keep Shabbat: Not at all.
Youth Group, if any: I don't like the ones around me (too closeminded).
Education: Nine Years of Solomon Schechter day school education, three years of continuing education at a night school, but right now I'm in public school doing IB.
Future Plans: None of them involve any major Jewish commitments. I want to study Arabic in college, and perhaps live in Egypt for a bit, though.
Name: Sol
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina (not for much longer..)
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Orthodox
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Sepharadi, all the way!
Kosher?: yeah
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: smoked salmon!
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach!
Channukah or Purim: Chanukah
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: none, Haaretz
Keep Shabbat: kind of..
Youth Group, if any: local club (mi refugio)
Education: 2nd year of literature in Argentina
Future Plans: Moving to London to study journalism!
Name: Deborah
Location: North West London
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Reform!
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Ashkenazi!
Kosher?: Yup!
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: hmm, salmon if I had to choose, but Chicken Shwarma if I was free to decide
Pesach or Shauvot: Shavout, after an immense Tikkun Leyl Shavout this week
Channukah or Purim: Purim
The Jewish Chronicle or Jewish Telegraph: JC!
Keep Shabbat: Yes
Youth Group, if any: RSY- Netzer!!!
Education: AS
Future Plans: Shnat Netzer in Israel!
Name: Elliot, El, Smell ... the list really goes on...
Location: London, UK (unfortunately not Israel)
Jewish Affiliation (eg. Reform, Liberal etc): Orthodox views, but not Orthodox in practice.
Ashkenazi or Sephardi: Neither - I'm Mizrachi!
Kosher?: No human is (except on Pesach when we use Christian kiddie blood...)
Smoked salmon or chopped liver: Smoked salmon
Pesach or Shauvot: Pesach, never seen the point in cheesecake, and I hate it!
Channukah or Purim: Purim, cause it helps build up to my liver failure.
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Re: The TSR Jewish Society (J-Soc) - thread TWOYes; each member must donate either:(Original post by Sum1)
V2 yay!!!...............now any fees this time round?
- one x latke
- one x bagel
- one x doughnut
- one pound to go in tzedakka (charity) box
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Re: The TSR Jewish Society (J-Soc) - thread TWO"x" shaped latke?!(Original post by gemgems89)
Yes; each member must donate either:
- one x latke
- one x bagel
- one x doughnut
- one pound to go in tzedakka (charity) box
"x" shaped bagel?!
"x" shaped doughnut?!
oy!...vhere vill i find zem. -
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Re: The TSR Jewish Society (J-Soc) - thread TWODon't act so surprised.(Original post by Sum1)
jew?! no.... ........................ ............... ................ ............... reeli?!
Does anyone else get the feeling that this thread feels really empty?
We're not even passed page one yet. I feel like it's a n00b thread as opposed to the ancient and wonderfully holy old J-Soc. Though I'm sure this one will follow similar suit! Amen!
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Re: The TSR Jewish Society (J-Soc) - thread TWOHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.(Original post by bohemian)
Helloooooooooo J-Soc.
WHY AM I NOT ON THE MEMBER LIST??????
*sulks and cries*
OOPS. You are now. Er.. minor technical error.
Yes! Amen Selah!(Original post by sum1)
amen...............ken yehi ratzon? maybe.
