Update: My apologies to all. I see that this discussion has been moved to Chatter and I should have posted this there.

Moved to Chatter.



>>>Thank G-d plants and trees and animals, fish and birds and the majority of mankind are not jewish.
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>>>Peter, you really should have just dropped this a while ago.
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>>>I am not an advocate of religion in general - having said that, my wife is Jewish, her mother is Jewish, and I certainly know many Jewish people (and Christian people, and Muslim people, etc.) who are "good for the world".
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>>>Do I disagree with many orthodox practices? Yes, I do. But so long as they don't affect my rights (nor mine theirs), that is what makes this country so great.
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>>>I'm sure Tuvia was quite insulted by your statement. I don't consider your statement evil or cruel - quite frankly, you don't wield enough power to even approach those levels. But I do consider the statement "thank god the majority of mankind are not jewish" to be utterly stupid.
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>>>FYI, men like Jonas Salk and Albert Einstein were Jewish - the would could certainly use a few more of them, and a little less of this kind of crap.
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>>I don't know why Peter made his remark, but he is Jewish himself.
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>Peter was joking probably, refering to strict ortodox Jewish and their (hard to follow up) religion customs
>rather then jewish people in general. As you said he is Jewish himself. It was imho just mild joke gonne bad rather then anything
>serious. I see no reason for anybody getting insulted.
>Thread was so far very very interesting to read. Hope it does not turn into heated personal exchanges.