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  • December 17, 2016 8:43 pm at 8:43 pm #618862
    Lightbrite
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    Your thoughts? Would you volunteer for a Rent-a-Jew? Why or why not?

    December 18, 2016 3:22 pm at 3:22 pm #1200656
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    How do you explain what it’s like to be Jewish?

    I guess it’s the opportunity for nonJewish Germans to see that Jews are normal people? And they have a lot in common.

    December 18, 2016 3:45 pm at 3:45 pm #1200657
    zahavasdad
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    Does the “rent-a-jew” include an all expense paid trip to Germany, I might consider it then

    December 18, 2016 3:59 pm at 3:59 pm #1200658
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    The title sounds creepy. They should change the title.

    December 18, 2016 5:54 pm at 5:54 pm #1200659
    golfer
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    Lilmod U, that was my first thought too.

    December 18, 2016 6:14 pm at 6:14 pm #1200660
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    Yes “Rent-a-Jew” also sounds like the person just needs to be Jewish.

    In that case any Jew would do.

    However surely they choose individuals capable of making personable and pleasant impressions, with strong and positive Jewish identities, who are also halachically Jewish.

    Once I called “The Jewish Number” hoping to speak to a random Jew from around the world (that’s how it’s advertised). Turned out to be a not so random rabbi.

    Rent-a-Jew reminds me of Simon Wiesenthal’s, The Sunflower, where a dying Nazi man asked a nurse to bring him “a Jew” any Jew, so he could ask “the Jew” for forgiveness for killing Jews.

    The company’s name feeds into the dehumanization of being Jewish. Then again, it’s a business.

    Maybe we would have to be there to get it.

    December 18, 2016 6:18 pm at 6:18 pm #1200661
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    ZD: What if they put you with nonfrum Jews?

    You might get the honor of promoting achdus right there.

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