If you have never looked at our blogroll, please take a second to look at it right now on the right side of your screen. You’ll notice one of the sites we like is Stuff Young Jewish Adults Like. Being young Jewish adults, it is only natural that we relate to most of the items they discuss. There is one issue that is QUITE pertinent this week: Young Jews only keeping Kosher for Passover.
As their article explains,
Each year, Jews are encouraged to remember leaving Egypt as if it had happened to them. Thus many JYAs, including those of the laxest possible faith, spend the Passover week carrying around a box of kosher for Passover matzo, dramatically refusing pizza and sandwiches saying, “Sorry dude, I’m keeping kosher for Passover.” To a Non-Jew, this phenomenon is roughly equivalent to Christian girls of loose morals giving up fellatio for Lent.
We couldn’t agree more. You can read the entire glorious, fine-crafted article here. The best part? For a whole 7 days every year (and the 7 days before that if you really wanna kvetch and push your luck) we can guilt the crap out of our Non-Jewish friends and make them feel sympathetic for our archaic, persecuted traditions. But be careful and make sure the Matzoh isn’t counterfeit. Or had baby Christian blood in it.
