Vampire Hanuka.

[hopita]

Yesterday afternoon I (finally!) attended my new member orientation for Park Slope Food Co-op. It was over by around 6:00 pm, but I wasn't meeting aaronbenedict until around 8:00 for the Steelers game (go Steelers! Woo!), so I had some time to kill in the neighborhood

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[vulgarweed]

Well, obviously Jewish vampires can't be repelled by a cross or Christian holy water!

This reminds me of a conversation I had last year with a young man who was part of the crew that drives the Hanukkah truck and shouts "Happy Hanukkah" at everyone downtown. I don't know what specific sect they are. That's cool, but this was just odd.

HIM: Are you Jewish?
ME: No.
HIM: Are you sure?
ME: Um...yes.
HIM: *looks at me sideways, walks away looking unconvinced.*
ME: ??

Now, I suppose it's possible that there were some 16th-century Portuguese crypto-Jews on my Brazilian side, but really, is that enough to set off someone's Jewdar? If anything, I would think I "look" Catholic!

[hopita]

Yea, those would be the Lubavitchers, AKA Chabad. The long story short is that because of the Jewish prohibition on proselytizing, we're/they're not allowed to try to convert non-Jews. Instead they channel all of that religious fervor into trying to make Jews more Jewish. I'm sure he assumed that when you said you weren't Jewish you were lying to try to block his efforts to Jew you up. If only you'd just admitted your Jewishness, he could have stuffed your hands full of literature.

[aaronbenedict]

Jewish vampires are however repelled by a Star of David :)

[sabotabby]

Aren't paranormal romance vampires Mormon?

[ratphooey]

Oy vey!

[furious_mold]

I love the title of this post. Love. Love. Love.

Two years later, my friend Al sez:

[hopita]