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Conference taveng::bagels

Title:BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest
Notice:1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration
Moderator:SMURF::FENSTER
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1524
Total number of notes:18709

81.0. "Jews and the Media" by LOGIC::DESMARAIS (Joyce, Hudson MA) Mon Mar 17 1986 08:39

How about a discussion of how Jews (or topics of interest to Jews)
are portrayed in the media?

This note could be a place for commenting on TV shows or new books...

Or, if you know of a TV show to be broadcast soon, perhaps it could be 
announced here ahead of time.

So, for starters, did anyone see the National Geographic program about
Jerusalem on Channel 2 last night in Boston?  It showed activities in
the four quarters of the city (Jewish, Moslem, Christian, Armenian).

In the description of the Jewish quarter, the program focused on a
Yemenite Jewish family and showed wedding customs.  I was surprised
by how Arabic many of the customs seemed.
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81.1I'm still here.CADET::MAHLERIf you knew Sushi Like I know Sushi!Mon Mar 17 1986 09:0017
    
    	Yes, I did catch the film about Jerusalem, I thought
    	it was extremely open minded and not biased towards
    	any ONE particular ethnic group and I was pleased and
    	informed after watching it.  Fascinating.
    
    	The wedding scene WAS very interesting and I am glad
    	I am not the only one who found it to be so different
    	(Save the Hebrew blessings).  Did you check out that
    	outfit the bride was wearing and how they smeared the
    	Henna into the hands of the bride and groom ?  (If
    	it was still there in the morning, the marriage would last.).
    
    	I would love to learn Much more about these rituals.
    
    	Michael
    
81.2We came first...TAV02::ALLIN1V2Le'ChaimThu Mar 20 1986 00:435
    RE: 0.
    
    Perhaps it is the other way around.
    
    Cb.
81.3NY1MM::BCOHENSun Mar 23 1986 20:2430
    
    
    As for the prtrayal of jews in the media, here in N.Y. the major
    publication with a standing is the N.Y. Times.  As far as I am
    concerned the Times has a very prominent anti-jewish attitude.
    In High School (yeshiva of flatbush) one of my Rabbi's would go
    over the times in the morning with us and point out a general flavor
    the paper had in it's stance.  In the editorials William Safire
    was the only Pro-Israel/Jewish writer.  Among the most anti were
    Flora & Anthony Lewis.  Also a few weeks ago the times printed two
    articles, one front page Sec. A, the other page 1 Sec. B.  One had
    to do with a scandal recently announced of money laundering at a
    yeshiva and the other which was not a timely piece nor needed to
    be on page 1. was entitled 'Who is a Jew?' and outlined the schisms
    developing more prominently as of late in the American Jewish
    community.  I'm trying not to sound too paranoid, this is just an
    example of instances that have accumulated over years of reading
    that paper.
    
    Bruce
    
    ps.
    
    Re .1 - I know a few Yemenites here in Brooklyn,  
    we used to pray in their shul. I could try to find out some of their
    minhagim for you.
    
    BC.
    
    
81.4laugh 'till you cryDELNI::GOLDBERGWed Apr 30 1986 10:4827
    A short item on the "Happenings" page of the Assabet Valley Beacon
    and associated local newspapers (April 24) carried the following
    opening sentence:
    
    "The American Jewish Historical Society is seeking brief reminiscences
    from Jewish individuals who passed the Statue of Liberty when arriving
    in the United States for the first time."
    
    "Jewish individuals"?
    
    Would those of other religions have been referred to as "Moslem
    individuals", "Catholic individuals", "Hindu individuals", "Protestant
    individuals"? Of course not.  They would have been properly called
    "Moslems", "Catholics" and so on.
    
    Why not then just plain "Jews"?
    
    I'll tell you why.  "Jew" and "Jews" are unconsciously regarded
    as perjorative terms, to be spat out in derision, not to be used
    in polite society or in public discourse by liberal-minded, objective
    journalists in this part of the country.
    
    It pains me too much to believe that the item was published as
    submitted by the American Jewish Historical Society.
    
    Does anyone out there prefer being referred to as a "Jewish individual"
    rather than as a "Jew"?
81.5"Shoah" Holocaust DocumentaryLOGIC::DESMARAISMore editorial balloon juice...Fri May 02 1986 10:147
"Shoah," the 9 1/2 hour documentary film about the holocaust,
will be shown at Holy Cross College in Worcester between May 4 
and May 13.

Call the Jewish Community Center at 756-7109 for information on 
show times and tickets.  The film will be shown in two parts;  
check the schedule for the dates for Parts A and B.