19/2/93
Re:
The Moshiach And Me
‘APIKORES'
INDEED
Sam Orbaum describes himself as a "stupid
kid," with a "sluggish English brain," "a stinking
apikores, a non-believing sheigetz." Nobody could describe him
better for making fun of the fact that the Lubavitcher Rebbe could not
have children of his own.
The rest of his
preposterous farce is not worth mentioning, since the Rebbe certainly
did not declare himself as Messiah, nor did his real followers, but
only a number of foolish people who did not think through what they
were doing.
Meir Aharon Stern, Zurich
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5/3/93
Re:
The Moshiach And Me
IRRESPONSIBLE,
INDIGESTIBLE
At the beginning
of Sam Orbaum's "The Moshiach and Me" (January 22), you left
out a reminder not to eat before reading the article. I expect it caused
an outbreak of indigestion among those who read it.
Why would a publication
that is so sensitive to the anti-religious remarks of Shulamit Aloni
and antisemitic bias in the media, give a full page to such cynical
comments of an obviously bitter individual?
Though you might claim that it is not the opinion of the paper, you
at least have the same responsibility as Time-Warner in producing Ice-T's
cop killer song.
Mr. Orbaum has
deeply rooted resentments that may have psychiatric implications. Perhaps
there is a good proctologist in Israel who can cure him.
Chaim Kosofsky, Springfield,
Massachusetts
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16/4/93
Re:
Crumbs
ENJOYING
ORBAUM AND BERLYNE
The stacks of leftover Jerusalem Post magazines [that accumulate]
when there isn't enough time to read them, are certainly worth a later
glance.
I came across
Sam Orbaum's "Crumbs," (March 19) while cleaning for Pessah;
beginning with his Honey wife and ending with the honey cake (and not
a Shavuot cheesecake) is a feast. But the main dish was cleaning for
Pessah, e.g., the Jews were freed from slavery, that's why we celebrate
Pessah.
So why do we
work ourselves to death and throw matza crumbs all over the house, after
months of cleaning, etc., etc. ?
It was a riot.
As for rhyming:
cleaning the lox out of the sox, kippers out of the slippers, the bonbons
out of longjohns, the sloppy Joes out of the pantyhose - hilarious.
Whom to adore?
Orbaum or
Alex Berlyne's rhyming more?
Adele Markin, Tel Aviv
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4/6/93
Re:
The Golan Heist
GREAT
ORBAUM HUMOR
Kudos to The Jerusalem Post! "The Golan Heist" (April
30) by Sam Orbaum is great political humor. I'm still chuckling.
Sometimes, as an old friend used to say, "you've got to laugh at
the madness."
Mel
Bloom, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
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20/8/93
Re:
Gripe, Gripe, Gripe
FUNNY FIRST
I congratulate Sam Orbaum for
"Gripe, Gripe, Gripe" (August 6). It is the first time in a long time that I've read
such an article meant to be funny that really was.
Ginger Saunders, Jerusalem
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27/8/93
Re:
The Land of Misconceptions
FUNNY BUT
OFFENSIVE
Unable to sleep on Friday night at about 4 a.m., I read The Jerusalem
Post Magazine. At 5 a.m. I went back to bed with fits of laughter. Since
this woke my wife up, I had to tell her the joke, and for a while we
lay in our beds laughing, and worrying the children would mistake the
sounds for crying.
Sam Orbaum's
column was the cause, but over the Sabbath we came to our senses. If
any non-Jewish paper would print, even in jest: "Honk if you see
a fat Jew with a big crooked nose," it would be termed antisemitic.
So who are we to poke fun at the deity of another religion? The editors
should not have allowed "Honk If You Love Jesus" into your
paper.
Joseph Lunzer, Jerusalem
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10/9/93
Re:
The Protektzia Principle
I'M STILL
LAUGHING
I would like
to express my profound mirth at Sam Orbaum's piece on his triplets ("The
Protektzia Principle," July 23) whom, he reports, amcha spontaneously
described as "three twins" - an absurd expression of mad genius
like squaring the circle. I still laugh when I remember it.
Anna Maria Jokl, Jerusalem
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29/10/93
Re:
The Radical Genesis
HILARIOUS
ORBAUM
I'm writing to tell you how very much I enjoyed the article by
Sam Orbaum entitled
"The Radical Genesis" (October 1). It's marvelous, hilarious
and very clever.
Perry Haber, Tel Aviv
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10/12/93
ORBAUM'S
NO HUMORIST
Your writer Sam Orbaum stresses that he is no humorist
or a writer either. I most sincerely agree with him - and I want to
add that I am amazed at how you could include his downright silly essays
again and again in your paper.
I do not think
your readers are of such a low standard that they have to be fed material
written by somebody who just sits down to write about something he knows
nothing about out of boredom and to earn some money.
J. Seligmann, Jerusalem
