"The seder is supposed to be a safe place." Now, who are you kidding? But check out this comment from wrpn and why it deserves its own post:
Rabanit Hausman,
Sometimes you just have to pick your fights. We had guests over the first days of the chag (holiday) whose son, who had just returned from a year of study at a yeshiva in Medinat Yisrael, proceeded to quip, "my rebbe in yeshiva told me that the most depraved Jew is more righteous than the nicest goy (non-Jew)." I was infuriated but opted not to respond to a comment that, in the scheme of things, places Bernard Madoff on a higher spiritual level than say a Mother Theresa or the Dalai Lama.
My seder was ripe with jokes about Modern Orthodox rabbis (followed by jokes about Reform rabbis) along with a couple of jokes about Mexicans where someone explained to me that all Hispanics are Mexican. Can you say..."cruising for a bruising"?
What kind of trash talk did you hear at your seder? Go ahead, get it off your chest, I'm listening.
Rabanit Hausman,
Sometimes you just have to pick your fights. We had guests over the first days of the chag (holiday) whose son, who had just returned from a year of study at a yeshiva in Medinat Yisrael, proceeded to quip, "my rebbe in yeshiva told me that the most depraved Jew is more righteous than the nicest goy (non-Jew)." I was infuriated but opted not to respond to a comment that, in the scheme of things, places Bernard Madoff on a higher spiritual level than say a Mother Theresa or the Dalai Lama.
My seder was ripe with jokes about Modern Orthodox rabbis (followed by jokes about Reform rabbis) along with a couple of jokes about Mexicans where someone explained to me that all Hispanics are Mexican. Can you say..."cruising for a bruising"?
What kind of trash talk did you hear at your seder? Go ahead, get it off your chest, I'm listening.
