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"JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli girl has become a divorcee at the age of 14. It all began as a lark, in a schoolyard where a 17-year-old boy recently declared the girl his wife, reciting a Jewish ritual vow in front of witnesses, and she accepted his ring. That, and what a spokeswoman for Israel's Rabbinical Courts said was the consummation of their marriage, was enough to make them man and wife in the Jewish state."

http://tinyurl.com/b25jmy

I wonder how exactly it went from a school joke to being ruled on by Rabbis.

2/28/2009 3:50:29 AM

thats some harry potter shit right there

2/28/2009 3:56:51 AM

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"I wonder how exactly it went from a school joke to being ruled on by Rabbis."

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"P IN VA-Gee"

2/28/2009 3:57:24 AM

^^ lol wat

3/1/2009 11:10:02 PM

this used to happen all the time in America before the internet

3/1/2009 11:20:46 PM

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"reciting a Jewish ritual vow in front of witnesses"

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"thats some harry potter shit right there"

don't act like the spells in harry potter don't sound like hebrew jibberish

3/1/2009 11:23:28 PM

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"this used to happen all the time in America before the internet"

common law marriage still happens--just not in nc

3/1/2009 11:38:49 PM

alohomora doesnt sound hebrew, sounds japanese.

3/2/2009 12:06:07 AM

^ Sounds Hawaiian to me

3/2/2009 7:21:46 AM

Sounds dumb to me... SPEAK AMERRCAN!

3/2/2009 7:29:16 AM

Jews scare me

3/2/2009 7:52:35 AM

3/2/2009 7:55:53 AM

I was the groom in a mock jewish wedding when i was 12. if i had sex with that girl, then we would be officially married according to jewish law.

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"don't act like the spells in harry potter don't sound like hebrew jibberish"

a lot of the "wizard" words actually do come from hebrew and arabic roots.

3/2/2009 8:34:58 AM

3/2/2009 9:49:17 AM

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"I was the groom in a mock jewish wedding when i was 12"

So is this an activity that young Jewish kids frequently partake in?

3/2/2009 11:45:03 AM

It's an educational method of teaching kids about stages in the life cycle. The best way to teach kids about Jewish weddings is to have them participate in one. So you pick a bride and groom, witnesses, someone to be the rabbi, you step on the glass, yell "Mozel Tov!," and just assume at age 10-12 they aren't going to have sex with each other.

3/2/2009 12:14:58 PM

That's dumb.

3/2/2009 12:15:51 PM

i am SORT OF writing a paper on this for my big law school paper thing.

child marriage.

except i'm doing the more intense kind, like where a family trades their 9 year old daughter to a 56 year old man for a goat and sack of lima beans.

3/2/2009 12:17:14 PM

do christian kids never do mock weddings?

3/2/2009 12:54:51 PM

^ I never heard of one going down.

3/3/2009 12:45:35 AM

Heaven forbid we celebrate something about human life as opposed to only talking about Jesus...

3/3/2009 12:47:59 AM

lol wat?

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"me: You're Jewish were in the habit of getting fake married as a child? Kat: no no I was not was that common? me: according to this guy it's common amongst teh jews Kat: this must be a part of Judaism I didn't learn about as a kid"

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 12:51 AM. Reason : ,]

3/3/2009 12:48:38 AM

^I did it growing up in Charlotte and I've worked at three different congregations in the triangle and all three did the same thing.


It just feels like there's never a celebration of life in Christianity...its Jesus or bust.

weddings are only about Jesus, funerals are only about Jesus...never life.

its also why their is a correlation of more observant Christian = worse in bed

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 12:53 AM. Reason : ^]

3/3/2009 12:51:14 AM

^ what kind of Christians have you been hanging out with?

3/3/2009 12:52:25 AM

the kind that care more about the afterlife than this life

3/3/2009 12:54:14 AM

Mmm yes, that must be all Christians, ever

3/3/2009 12:54:50 AM

Oh no! Generalizations! I must have really been talking about every single one

3/3/2009 12:56:29 AM

Yeah, "only" tends to have that connotation.

3/3/2009 12:57:54 AM

i've been to 4 protestant weddings, all 4 had more to do with jesus than the couple.

i also didn't care much for the whole wife being obedient to the man thing...they didn't really ask much of the man in return.

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM. Reason : -]

3/3/2009 12:59:14 AM

That sounds more southern Baptist than your run of the mill Protestant.

3/3/2009 1:01:48 AM

one was southern baptist, one Presbyterian, 2 methodist

3/3/2009 1:02:42 AM

And there would be your answer.

3/3/2009 1:05:39 AM

what would "run of the mill" be then?

3/3/2009 1:08:55 AM

There's something like 30,000 Christian denominations in the world. Some conservative, some liberal. You're obviously hanging out with the wrong types

3/3/2009 1:32:07 AM

PM sent so we're not keeping this thread going just for us.

3/3/2009 1:38:27 AM

^^ bdmazur's experience seems typical of churches in NC, and i'd bet IS typical of churches throughout the south.

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 1:39 AM. Reason : ]

3/3/2009 1:38:42 AM

fuckin' south

3/3/2009 1:39:04 AM

indeed...i tend to enjoy northern catholics better...

3/3/2009 1:41:45 AM

i tend to enjoy northerners whose religion i have no clue about because it NEVER comes up in conversation

thats prolly one of my favorite parts of living up here

nobody gives a fuck, they're, to turn a phrase, just trying to "lih"

3/3/2009 1:45:03 AM

3/3/2009 1:45:33 AM

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"i tend to enjoy northerners whose religion i have no clue about because it NEVER comes up in conversation"

Yeah, when I first moved to NC, people asking me what my religion was confused the crap out of me.

3/3/2009 1:46:25 AM

Ah, to have never lived in the south...

at least my parents managed to escape Georgia before I had to start school. And since then I've lived in or around an NC city, which is really a nice balance of northishness and southishness.

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 1:48 AM. Reason : .]

3/3/2009 1:48:20 AM

how else would us southerners know if we hate you or not?

3/3/2009 1:48:29 AM

BUT EVERYONE IS SO POLITE IN THE SOUTH

(as long as you look, think, sound, and act like they expect you to)

3/3/2009 1:48:33 AM

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"And since then I've lived in or around an NC city, which is really a nice balance of northishness and southishness."

clearly you've never actually lived "in or around" a northern city

3/3/2009 1:49:18 AM

^^^ hahahah true.

3/3/2009 1:49:52 AM

^^I'm not really sure what you're implying with that. But I expect that it is multi-faceted.

Also, I don't so much mean "northishness" as "like a northern city", more meant as "not full of a bunch of fucking farmers"

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 1:52 AM. Reason : v]

3/3/2009 1:50:26 AM

in what ways are any of the north carolina "cities" "northernish"

LOL

thats actually a decent description

but trust me, theres so much more to being a northern city than "lacks farmers"

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 1:52 AM. Reason : but i do like that]

3/3/2009 1:51:45 AM

My guess is because most of the people living in places like Cary aren't from the South originally.

3/3/2009 1:52:31 AM

btw, we have farmers up here too

3/3/2009 1:54:10 AM