The differences between dancing, parading and rioting.

[mizlizz4u]

It's nearly a year since our wedding, and we still get the same reaction when the topic comes up around friends or family:

Your wedding was really something - everyone danced together, it was so fun. Everyone was just so happy, for the same reason, and dancing all together. It really was something.
The reaction is related to the fact that our

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[rivka_m]

if only.

[mick_hale]

Well said.

[alanscottevil]

Somebody recently commented about my housemates, that it was so nice and out-of-the-ordinary for orthodox and conservative jews to be living together. I was thinking "since when is that weird??"

And if you'll allow me to be partisan on the whole gay pride issue, I think that it's a lot easier for everyone to get together and help out "the sick, the poor, the starving, the hunted, those left behind" when one group (the charedim) aren't busy trying to keep another group (the LGBT people) in that position. I have friends who marched in the earlier pride parades, including the one where people got stabbed. They can describe what it was like to you, the difference between the way the parade people respected their holy hometown versus the more and more bloodthirsty an violent way the charedim have acted over the years.

[mizlizz4u]

I want to note that I'm not justifying the charedi position in ANY way at all. It's very simple: it makes most of us around here sick (except of course, its supporters), no matter for or against or undecided on parades