Jane Therese for The New York Times
Posted on 06/22/2005 5:18:21 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Jane Therese for The New York Times
Lillian Greenblatt Braun in the Alliance Colony cemetery.
PITTSGROVE, N.J. - Lillian Greenblatt Braun's 100th birthday party-cum-homecoming began, appropriately enough, with a trip to the graveyard.
Leaning on a niece's arm in the bright sunshine on a recent Sunday, Mrs. Braun walked along the tombstones in the cemetery of the old Jewish agricultural colony of Alliance, deep in southern New Jersey.
"That's my mother," she said, pausing at a stone inscribed in English and Hebrew. "Here's Uncle Benny." The next plot was a blank patch of grass. "Yes, and I'm here."
The niece, Merle Greenblatt Zucker, caught Mrs. Braun's hand. "But you're not here," she said. "You can't go. You're our only connection."
She is indeed. Mrs. Braun, a petite, indomitable woman with wide blue eyes, appears to be the lone surviving native of the Alliance Colony, making her a vital link to an important but largely buried part of American Jewish history.
In the 1880's, pogroms and anti-Semitic laws in Russia caused a historic exodus of Jews. Most ended up crowded into tenements in American cities. But some Jewish thinkers urged their brethren, as one of them wrote, "to become tillers of the soil and thus shake off the accusation that we were petty mercenaries living upon the toil of others." And so hundreds of Jews established agricultural colonies on land bought for them by charities and philanthropists.
The odds were against them. Often the land was unyielding. The settlers, mostly tradesman or scholars, were ill prepared for a life of clearing tree stumps and birthing calves. (snip)
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Does the appearance on the scene of Jesus affect that?
Wouldn't we need the benefit of observation from thousands of years in the future to determine that?
In the book of acts,,, it says Jesus sent some demons into a qorum of PIGS in the country side in Isreal.. PIGS?... in Isreal?.. says I..
It says don't eat em', not don't raise em'.. Raising pigs "IS" a business.. and the non Jews have always liked their pork.. Oh! well...
The "old testament" must become relevant and the experience of the past two thousand years must be shown to be an anomaly in Jewish history.
Does the appearance on the scene of Jesus affect that?
Who?
Wouldn't we need the benefit of observation from thousands of years in the future to determine that?
Nope. All we need to know is that the Torah is G-d's ultimate blueprint for Creation.
I assume your answer means that you don't recognize that Jesus even existed. I don't know how you missed it, it was in all the papers.
So did Genghis Khan, Emperor Atahualpa, and my great grandfather, but I hardly see what their existence has to do with negating the Eternal Torah.
You said that the last 2000 years were an aberration in the long Jewish history and I asked if the appearance of Jesus on the scene affected that. Your response was "Who?". If you care to overlook the obvious I, in return, don't care what you think.
By referring to the past two thousand years (a rounded off figure) I was referring to the length of the current Exile and not to J*sus or any other specific figure who was around at approximately that same time.
My apologies for unintentionally offending you. -_-
My apologies for being irritated. I didn't understand your message. Thanks for the explanation.
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