Probably should have taken care of this right at the beginning, but like they say, better late than never.
There's steriotypes about just about anything in this world--some old, some new, some just plain weird. Jews included. So to redress a few that I've heard of:
1. Jews do not have horns (no, not even really little ones hidden in our hair! If I remember correctly, Michaelangelo or some other great artist mis-translated a bit of the Hebrew bible which can be either 'rays' or 'horns' in English, and so painted Moses with horns :P). Or tails. Or pointed teeth. If you're looking for any of those, go check out the MeadeHall. Plenty of devil-types there. Even one knee-high one who I mentioned a few posts back.
2. Jews don't own all the banks, newspapers, and stuff like that. Don't I wish! But if we did, would I be scraping together my savings for a secondhand laptop? :P If you're looking for someone who owns/controls nearly everything, start at www.msn.com
3. "Jews are meek, especially when persecuted." I think I must have overlooked this one during my edJewcation ::winks::. I'm not meek. Quiet, maybe, but not meek.
4. Jews do have plenty of weird customs, but none of them involve sacrifices, especially not of the human variety. Just stuff like wrapping leather boxes with long straps around arms, wearing sheets while praying, waving palm branches at certain times of the year, stuff like that. You know, just the mildly weird instead of majorly horrible. We'll leave the majorly horrible for obscure cults and stuff.
And that's all that I can think of offhand, although if anyone else wants to remind me of others I'll redress them at a later occasion ::grins::
Posted by adam at July 30, 2003 11:40 AM