I taught science and history at a yeshiva hs in Seattle for many years. Hilarity ensued. Over and over. But a lot of that shit they get behind ain't funny at all.
Oh yes, I'm sure you and I could trade stories. The first school I taught (math) at was a yeshiva high school in my neighborhood here in NYC. Saw a lot of crazy things.
Good rabbi story! I grew up going to a reformed temple in Los Angeles. Our rabbi never mentioned Larry David, but this was way before Seinfeld, so that would've been a weird one to name check. One day, flipping around some local cable channels, I saw our rabbi on TV. That was the first and only time I saw a rabbi doing the televangelist thing. In unrelated news, I became an agnostic, cultural Jew shortly after my Bar Mitzvah.
That's one thing I can say -- never seen one of my rabbis on TV! Though I guess one of them might have been on the news, right around when he got arrested...
Anyway, I don't want to give you the wrong impression: I'm very much still doing the religious thing, despite all the weird stuff that involves.
There is definitely a little bit of Scared Straight in these guys. I actually don't know if they still talk like that. My guess is that they (along with the rest of the world) are into self-help woo-ey affirmation, but that's really just a guess.
I taught science and history at a yeshiva hs in Seattle for many years. Hilarity ensued. Over and over. But a lot of that shit they get behind ain't funny at all.
I sure could relate to this.
Oh yes, I'm sure you and I could trade stories. The first school I taught (math) at was a yeshiva high school in my neighborhood here in NYC. Saw a lot of crazy things.
Yup. Yup. Yuppity-yup. Yup.
Good rabbi story! I grew up going to a reformed temple in Los Angeles. Our rabbi never mentioned Larry David, but this was way before Seinfeld, so that would've been a weird one to name check. One day, flipping around some local cable channels, I saw our rabbi on TV. That was the first and only time I saw a rabbi doing the televangelist thing. In unrelated news, I became an agnostic, cultural Jew shortly after my Bar Mitzvah.
That's one thing I can say -- never seen one of my rabbis on TV! Though I guess one of them might have been on the news, right around when he got arrested...
Anyway, I don't want to give you the wrong impression: I'm very much still doing the religious thing, despite all the weird stuff that involves.
It's like DARE for yids. But less funny.
There is definitely a little bit of Scared Straight in these guys. I actually don't know if they still talk like that. My guess is that they (along with the rest of the world) are into self-help woo-ey affirmation, but that's really just a guess.