Posted on 07/06/2010 1:02:53 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The town’s primary retail area is Parker Square, which is full of independent shops and restaurants—a rarity in suburbia. A Jewish resident says she’d like to see more religious diversity, noting the Christian pre-football prayer and constant Christmas wishes at the local stores. “I couldn’t find a bar mitzvah card one time at the local drugstore, and you have to drive to Dallas to find a kosher grocery store,” she says.
(Excerpt) Read more at dmagazine.com ...
If someone said "Happy Haunakah" to me while getting a pastrami sandwich at a deli, I wouldn't be offended.
I think this writer is also trying to stir up trouble and diss the suburbs.
dissing the suburbs is what the Dallas media does best. I remember the Morning News calling Irving “lilly white” in an editorial when Irving has about the same proportion of blacks as the national average and a much higher proportion of hispanics. Heck, the MAJORITY of kids in the public schools are hispanic.
So what’s stopping her from starting a Jewish gift shop?
Can’t read it, its blocked. I guess from the snippet that the Princess is put off by redneck Christians? I have met this chick before. Notably, you find them around NYC. I have never understood their world view towards Christian Americans given the sacrifice and hospitality afforded Jews by American Christians. Gratitude ain’t just a Hallmark Card.
Oh, noes, I am a minority and my assumed rights are being trampled because more of my people didn’t settle into an area.......
Quick, let’s force everyone in Maine to speak Japanese because there are a couple thousand people of Japanese ancestry out of several million other people who live there.
If you want a Kosher food place —IN this country —You are free to open one
If you want a Kosher food place —IN this country —You are free to open one
If you want a Kosher food place —IN this country —You are free to open one
Typical D Magazine.....gets its little shots in on the Park Cities. Take a sample of people and offer that list of ten to live in, raise kids and UP and HP would win hands down.
Exactly. Conservatives see a business opportunity. Liberals see a need for government interference and repression.
Exactly. Conservatives see a business opportunity. Liberals see a need for government interference and repression.
She can’t print her own cards? Isn’t that what people do these days?
Okay, how about a mosque in your local strip mall?............
Katz’s neva closes!
I have to wonder how observant this lady is. A friend who passed away from cancer two years ago was extremely observant and conservative (her congregation was one of the few in Chicago that supported W), yet she reveled in receiving Christmas cards and wishes from others, including myself. She said, “We should never miss an opportunity to share goodwill.”
She can go drop dead enough of this crap.
Okay everybody, sing along...
“I’m just a Jew, a lonely Jew, on Christmas...”
I second the motion. She could at least send notice to some Jewish entrepreneurs that this would be a great place to set up shop, specializing in popular Jewish and Israeli products and delicacies that would be unique to the area.
The idea is that while it could cater to Jews, the majority of its customers will be non-Jews, buying what they could not find elsewhere.
Importantly, it doesn’t have to be exclusively Jewish products, either. Just unique to the area.
Some of the observant Jews I have known made it a point to live within walking distance of a synagogue so they don’t need to drive on the sabbath. If she wants the benefits of a Jewish neighborhood, I suggest she move within walking distance of a synagogue, or encourage establishing a new synagogue in her community.
I love when someone comes up to me in September and (knowing I'm Jewish) wishes me "Happy New Year", and I in turn try never to forget to say "Merry Christmas" to everyone in my office. And if someone says the same to me, I just say "thank you", without the need to proclaim my own faith because the truth is: I love Christmas time when many of the remaining sane people in America find a small reason to give thanks for just being alive and hopeful for a better world.
Dawn McMullan -
“As/ I type this, two men – probably illegal immigrants – are mowing my lawn. I assume they’re illegal because they’re older and don’t speak a word of English. Well, they do know the word “tomorrow,” which is unfortunate because mañana is one of the few Spanish words I know, unless counting to 10 is helpful to anyone.”
...or Kinky’s “They don’t make Jews like Jesus anymore.”
...crying into my bowl of hot and sour soup at the Chinese restaurant as the staff sings "Sirrent Night, Horry Night"...
I live in Dallas and you could pay me to move out of my neighborhood. We are Dallas’s best kept secret and I would just as soon keep it that way.
I do not care to have some of the people discover us from some of those burbs and bring their attitudes with them......
To be honest, we do not have a good school system, which is DISD. The burbs that I would not care to live in have great schools and that is always a consideration.
You move to the Baptist bible belt and expect a synagogue on every corner?
I bet she can find one faster than I can find a “Cowboy Church” in Tel Aviv.
Shheesh
“I love Christmas time when many of the remaining sane people in America find a small reason to give thanks for just being alive and hopeful for a better world.”
I understand your point. I have known a great many Jews who are grateful, generous and pleasant to spend time with. I, like you, have never felt that there is any real difference between Jews and Christians - we worship the same God. The NYC centric phenomena is actually catagious to all religions and those who have none. For some reason New Yorkers think all of America should look and act like them. What a dreary prospect.
The Dallas I know is horrible, they shouldn’t wonder why people leave
This must have been Larry David in drag....
D Magazine is quite pretentious. Flower Mound is more a suburb of Denton or Fort Worth than Dallas. Southlake and Colleyville are definitely more suburbs of Fort Worth than Dallas. These would more accurately be described as DFW communities and outlying areas than suburbs of Dallas.
That said, the writer is over-obsessed with “diversity” as a criteria for best places to live. I am much more concerned with schools, safety, conveniences, attractions, and things to do. I’m not sure I would diss any of the communities on the list, but there are lots of other communities that were left off the list, including Keller which was ranked something like 3rd on a list of top communities in the COUNTRY.
The fact that she doesn't want to pay for a store lease, when she knows that only 3% of the population is Jewish, thereby rendering any Jewish gift shop doomed to go out of business due to low sales. Actually you could probably make a go out of it in New York City.
Same with the idea of using the government to make Burger King have veggie burgers.
If there’s a demand for them, they’ll sell them,
meanwhile, all the complainers can just open their own “burger” stand and sell them if they think there’s enough demand.
Hey lady, it ain't got nothing to do with religion. Your local retailers are interested in making a profit. Thus, they stock their shelves with products that will sell the most the quickest. It's called capitalism. Get used to it.
E Pluribus Unim. Out of Many, One.
(Just wanted to correct your typo and add a little history :^) )
Offended Jewish woman should move. Or order kosher online. Or open her own store. Who is it she expects to be providing her needs for her? Obama, perhaps? Sorry, but it’s Texas and there are a lot of Christians there. And??
Offended Jewish woman should move. Or order kosher online. Or open her own store. Who is it she expects to be providing her needs for her? Obama, perhaps? Sorry, but it’s Texas and there are a lot of Christians there. And??
If she opened a gift shop - she would soon discover her best season would be CHRISTMAS!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha.
Poor dear...as I recall, Irving(142nd fastest gun in the West) had the same problem.
Our friends can hardly wait to escape out of one of the burbs mentioned and move to our area. The next door neighbors won't even say hi.....it is an odd thing....
We learned from the SCOTUS nominee who blushed and then answered Lindsey Grahm’s question “on Christmas like all good Jews, I was eating Chinese”
The woman in this piece apparently is not a good Jew because she should have been eating Chinese
I posted this a few days ago.
Which side of the fence?
If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a Republican doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a Democrat doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a Republican doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Democrats demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a Republican reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Democrat will delete it because he’s “offended”.
Well, I forwarded it.
Do the journalists who write this stuff realize how much they are damaging Jews by including the supposed comments of a Jewish woman who wants a bunch of Jewish businesses in her neigborhood even though there likely are not enough Jews to support it?
I've lived for 16 years in one of those 10 suburbs listed in the ``D Magazine'' article. I'll concur that the neighbors aren't chatty. See the Subdivided documentary page for details.
But I have a contrary view on the matter and it's one of the reasons I really like where I live now.
Most of my life was spent in Pittsburgh -- where ``nebby'' (nosy) neighbors are seen as a virtue and perceived as part of the friendliness of that area. My personal preference is to NOT have intrusive, chatty neighbors. I also like the high privacy fences that are quite common in D/FW and were very rare in Pittsburgh area.
Go back to Brooklyn! Go back to the West Side of Manhattan!
Thanks - I saw the typo but figured you’d all know what I meant. “Out of” or “”From”, contextually in this sense amounts to the same result: our nation is the unified essence of its many individual contributors.
Cocktail and Tail Party - thats for the kids right?
/sarcasm
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