tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post643146563210849083..comments2023-10-30T08:40:59.016-04:00Comments on Wolfish Musings: Hey, Mr. Producer, How About Doing Ten Minutes Worth of Research?BrooklynWolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994285019137108636noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-24465837114745981862009-01-26T17:48:00.000-05:002009-01-26T17:48:00.000-05:00It's very simple. No Yibum no plot so they chose t...It's very simple. No Yibum no plot so they chose to ignore this inconvenient truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-70100055831086869842009-01-26T12:30:00.000-05:002009-01-26T12:30:00.000-05:00LOZ,Thanks for the follow up. However, yibum toda...LOZ,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the follow up. However, yibum today is not just "contrary to the norm-" it's downright frowned upon. I'm not aware of any single Orthodox rabbi that would permit it.<BR/><BR/>The WolfBrooklynWolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994285019137108636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-14839999434355424252009-01-25T23:52:00.000-05:002009-01-25T23:52:00.000-05:00Wolf, What do you expect? Accuracy? From CBS? Ich...Wolf, What do you expect? Accuracy? From CBS? <BR/><BR/>Ichabod ChrainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-85170842675893488842009-01-25T22:21:00.000-05:002009-01-25T22:21:00.000-05:00WOLF:i just walked away from the show. my wife is ...WOLF:<BR/><BR/>i just walked away from the show. my wife is still watching it (she loves it).<BR/><BR/>first of all, the show makes it patently clear that the decision here to perform yibbum is extremely exceptional and contrary to the norm.<BR/><BR/>and whatever mistakes (or rather i would prefer to say unrealistic scenes) there are in the movie, there is no anti-jewish bias here.<BR/><BR/>JEWISH ATHEIST:<BR/><BR/>[spoiler alert]<BR/><BR/>"guns"<BR/><BR/>yes. last night i saw "my bloody valentine." there is a scene where a girl, who presumably never fired a gun before, shoots someone holding the gun in one hand. i was thinking how unlikely this is, but then again its hollywood. anything can happen. including a girl shooting a pistol with one hand or yibbum.Lion of Zionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10342299133387602141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-70984645218019946812009-01-25T13:25:00.000-05:002009-01-25T13:25:00.000-05:00That's why I love Lost. That show doesn't really h...That's why I love Lost. That show doesn't really have major mistakes, because people overly analyze every little thing. Like i remember in the first season, the made a mistake where a character was holding a gun with his right hand, but in a close up shot it looked like a left hand. Viewers picked it up within minutes.mlevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831542484906424230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-17114987417205221442009-01-23T15:28:00.000-05:002009-01-23T15:28:00.000-05:00It's not just Orthodox Judaism. Anytime there's a...It's not just Orthodox Judaism. Anytime there's a movie about anything you know about (chess, fly-fishing, guns, auto mechanics, Greek philosophy, whatever) you'll find ten huge, glaring errors that a two-minute conversation with an expert should have prevented. <BR/><BR/>I assume they just don't care about accuracy.Jewish Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04616617537150446818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-73528166818073289462009-01-23T13:25:00.000-05:002009-01-23T13:25:00.000-05:00good postharry marlyes had a post about 1/2 year a...good post<BR/><BR/>harry marlyes had a post about 1/2 year ago about an episode (don't remember which show) that relied heavily on the advice of a (chabad) rabbiLion of Zionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10342299133387602141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-48647529109182950932009-01-23T13:17:00.000-05:002009-01-23T13:17:00.000-05:00The news media always finds stupid and ignorant pu...The news media always finds stupid and ignorant pundits on every topic, but couldn’t locate one rabbi?<BR/>Maybe all is not lost. Try to give them a poke, if you care. CBS may be biased, but I doubt they would deliberately mislead.Producthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15903085114768392434noreply@blogger.com