18 Responses

1. Edelman is a cultural jews, not a Halchic jew. He is jewish enough to make Aliyah, not jewish enough for a Minyan

2. He was also Jewish enough to be killed by Hitler YMSH

3. Yup, I see I was right. So, you concocted a “back door” method to report on the Super Bowl, which is staggeringly important for the good of Klal Yisroel. BTW, this Edelman character is obviously not Jewish. Just as the Super Bowl isn’t, no matter how you try to re-package it.
   Indeed, yeshiva world news

4. 1000% right @american yerushalmi just readign these comments and you couldnt be more right, where are your hashkafic values ywn? righting about jewish cultural pride under the name yeshiva world? you sound conservative in your article.

5. It seems Edelman is an ‘Edel man’, he has a shtikal Aneevis and does the right thing and doesn’t care what the world thinks. He supports the Yidden and wears cleats with Etz chaim.

6. The commencement speech above is good. The marching music was all a cappella, because it took place during sefira (the day before Lag BaOmer). Start listening at about 47:00, and then the president’s devar Torah starts about 1:50:00

7. To Yerushalmi: First you complain that YWN’s coverage of Groundhog Day is not appropriate for a frum website. Now you kvetch about a superbowl related story. I am fairly certain that there were more rabbonim, askanim and bnai torah surreptitiously watching the Super Bowl on Sunday as compared to the numbers sneaking out of Kiddush club Shabbos morning to query goyim on the street if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow.

8. ZD; Since when did Hitler ym”sh become the Posek for mihu Yehudi?

9. it seems pepole are proud of his achievements because of his conection to jewdisim
   Hitler Y.M.S.vZ did from outside what this mans father did from inside
   and we are drawing attention to it
   and proud of it too R”L

10. Loshenhora: Your comment and vile comparison of Edelman’s father to Hitler, Y’S, is disgusting, but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised considering its source. Edelman has shown himself to be an exemplary and generous person and extremely talented athlete who has chosen to identify with the Yiddeshkeit of his father even if he is not a yid under halacha. He had no role in his father’s decision as to whom to marry. I won’t attribute your stupidity and lack of menschlichkeit to any children you might have since they deserve better.

11. @the moderater
    would have thought that a personal attack is not orthdox and you are so called an orthdox news site suppose the rebe maig

12. Gadol: some people kvetch about too much goyishkeit; some people kvetch about too much frumkeit (“extremism”). 🙂
    Although you are probably unfortunately right about Super Bowl viewers, a website like YWN carries a certain amount of weight in forming peoples’ attitudes toward Yiddishkeit. What people do privately is one thing. But, writing about it in positive, encouraging manner on a website can send a negative chinuch message especially to young people. They’ll think, “well, if Yeshiva World thinks it’s OK, must be OK.” Not a great message to be broadcasting.
    I’m just waiting to see what’s going to happen in a few months with the filthy Eurovision chazerei coming up. How many Jews will be involved with that? Hashem yishmor.

13. I think one of the few areas of agreement among most posters here has been that the shoah, Hitler, etc. was a unique event in the history of the world and should NEVER be analogized or referenced by ANYONE with comparability to any other contemporary event, no matter how strongly we feel. Comments by politicians making such analogies have drawn universal criticism but it seems some yiddin can’t help themselves and invoke these references to demonstrate how strongly they feel on an issue even if it means demeaning and devaluing the memory of the kedoshim.

14. If a pig believes its a cow, the pig is still not kosher. Same with Edelman. He might be a really nice person but he’s not a Jew nor should ppl call him one

15. @the moderator
    please explain why you allow someone to attack my children and when I respond you won’t post

16. Hitler was amolek
    when a yid marries out he kills off yiddishkite. American yidden have done as much damage to our numbers as Hitler did, although over a longer period of time. To be proud of the achievements of the children of men who married out is not acceptable , however well behaved the fruits are, for so-called frum jews or a so-called frum media site its even worse to try and assosiate with the broken chain for which my forefathers gave their lives to protect

17. Bigissy…..when the secular media refer to someone as “Jewish” they are doing so in a cultural context rather than first having checked with their l R/P and inserting a caveat as to his not being a REAL yid under halacha. Likewise, on the rare occasions when the editors choose to post an article from the secular media or about a secular subject, they assume that the vast majority of readers here know the difference w/o their having to include a warning such as they do when they post an article about some looney tune guys trying to sneak a goat up to har habayis to bring a korban (To all Readers: Gadolim hold that doing so is chayav kores etc.). Sadly, we all know that a large percentage of so called “Jewish celebrities” referenced the media may be “Jewish” by not Yiddin al pi halacaha.

18. well, he has a long beard, so, maybe he is trying to look jewish??–this is such nonsense–HE never said he was jewish, just that he has a jewish father–STOP this silly nonsense–HE is NOT JEWISH!!!!!–Nice guy though.