Rachel Cogent

"Ater a while you figure out you have to scan these articles before wasting your time." - Rachel Cogent

"This is why we are supposed to have strong leaders, not weak ones." - Rachel Cogent

"Being a celeb has gotta be a tough gig… no matter what you do someone is gonna be offended." - Rachel Cogent

"That's very moving and maybe you aren't as orthodox as you think. As you may know, the renegade Rabbi Kook you mentioned was essentially the founder of the Gush Emmunim movement. Their political ideology being that Jews living in the promised land was a prerequisite for the coming of the Moshiach. Orthodoxy by contrast believe that the physical land of Israel is irrelevant to Moshiach. That the redemption is "purely supernatural" and emanating from God anywhere in the galut. In their view, a God of miracles would have no need to place Jews in the promised land because such a prerequisite would mean God was not all-powerful. Jews living in the historical land of Judea was not seen as the fulfillment of prophesy. Gush Emmunim was a nationalistic movement that found its strength from youthful idealism, not calcified orthodoxy defending established power structures. The Gush appealed to progressive religious American Jews, with the partisan reactionary politics of Judea & Shomron today..." - Rachel Cogent

"You state that in your 7th paragraph Israel was born out of Holocaust. Jews are traumatized, it's easy to understand why we can't see anything sacred in the ashes of Jews. But isn't it likely that the Holocaust was the divine birth pangs of the Promised Land? Don't religious Jews observe the resurrection that comes from the ashes of the burnt sacrifice? Or are we blinded by our anger at at God for using OUR flesh for the sacrifice, like Isaac on the altar really getting burned? How long will Jews ignore the divine plan of redemption unfolding? Someday someone will suddenly notice it was happening all along… and it will be a revelation." - Rachel Cogent

"You throw rocks at cars in the US you end up in jail too..." - Rachel Cogent

"I've been there and its pretty horrendous how much water they waste." - Rachel Cogent

"Gotta say, some of these comments are a hoot!" - Rachel Cogent

"This is actually a corporate subsidy to raise the overall quality of the workforce. Business should pitch in since the government is culling out incompetent, mentally ill, unhealthy and desperate potential employees." - Rachel Cogent

"But does that mean they have to return the money?" - Rachel Cogent

"A remarkable similarity to Palestinians hiding their faces while demonstrating that their Jew neighbors should get out." - Rachel Cogent

"True, however the zealots get around that freedom by saying that the fetus is "breathing through its mother"." - Rachel Cogent

"If God had wanted geese to be fat he would have made them to eat like pigs." - Rachel Cogent

"No Jews allowed means the Ku Klux Klan is winning." - Rachel Cogent

"This is happens when there isn't enough terrorism. Police start persecuting Jews over petty religious turf wars." - Rachel Cogent

""Painful territorial sacrifices" sounds like a good way to create another Gaza." - Rachel Cogent

"Don't forget that business interests love and subsidize the cheap labor. These poverty stricken immigrants were invited here to play soldiers in the war against organized labor. Why do you think Reagan gave them amnesty? Because our economy thrives from importing cheap labor. So while wealthy republicans appreciate the ubiquitous servant class, poor republicans bemoan the invasion of employment competitors. This is why it is so often said that most republicans are poor people tricked into voting against their own interests." - Rachel Cogent

"Doesn't work in Python 3, you will need to update the "print" statement." - Rachel Cogent

"This is the new normal, America." - Rachel Cogent

"There's no such word as peacably." - Rachel Cogent

""slamming on their cell doors"??? I would suggest taking away their keys..." - Rachel Cogent

"I sure do hate to see Jerusalem turned into just another fasttrack. The religious need to put an end to this endless striving to imitate every other worldly city." - Rachel Cogent

"If Iran was paying a monthly salary to the Oklohoma City bombers it would cause an uproar." - Rachel Cogent

"What they need to do is let terrorists out so they have room to warehouse FB users." - Rachel Cogent

"I've never eaten a cat, much less a leopard." - Rachel Cogent

"Let's hope this realization leads to a revised policy where more mature soldiers are put in the hot seats." - Rachel Cogent

"What a nebbish." - Rachel Cogent

"You might call it Matkot, but I call it Pokpok." - Rachel Cogent

"I saw the "apology" as necessary politics. but then I learned it means Israel would have to pay restitution..." - Rachel Cogent

"Please continue talking about this problem. Kashrut should supervise our food production chain to ensure we eat healthy and not just whatever maximizes corporate profits. There are already many modern non-Jews who look for "Kosher" because it means cleaner and more humanely prepared food. This is a huge vacuum that tthe rabbanut can fill, and thus bring "Kosher" into the mainstream." - Rachel Cogent