I was supposed to post this a couple of days ago, but please take this survey/study a pair of researchers are performing about niddah and other related issues to help the Jewish community. It takes less than 10 minutes.
Elsewhere, SIL found this post by LGF which prints FOX's response to CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) regarding how they portray Muslims on 24. I think it's a great, fair response, and I'm actually surprised CAIR tried to make a big deal out of this in the first place. Not only is it a fictional story, it's one that has balance on both sides. A mailing list I'm on which is made up of people across the board had a number of people complaining about the pro-Muslim or very left-wing skewing of views, which were then responded to with points that many of those actually turn out to favor right-wing viewpoints. Personally, I think FOX is striking a nice balance - I was upset about certain scenes (even as it's just a TV show) and how viewpoints were portrayed in some instances, and I'm sure others were upset the other way, though I'd guess that was less true (excluding CAIR).
Meanwhile... 24 is awesome. :)
Rare Find is still proud to be the only person on earth to noy like 24.
ReplyDeleteWatch The Office instead. It's much better.
No, I'm with you Rare Find. I can't stand the show. What's even more interesting is that I've found that some of my friends who actually watch the show regularly also can't stand it. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteAnd Ezzie, I heartily recommend you read Slate's article on 24 (http://tinyurl.com/2wqtov ). It's really funny. =)
24 is great, but I'm only up to season five. The Office is great too, probably even better, but it's in a completely different category, so I don't see what one has to do with the other.
ReplyDeleteEzzie, every story, fictional or not, which is not heavily slanted to one side will be seen as biased by people on both sides. This has been established repeatedly.
You'll find that people will criticize the same article on Israel as being blatantly biased against Israel and blatantly biased for it, by partisans on both sides.
Because I'm trying to avoid spoilers for 24, I'm not going to read more comments here. :-)
I kinda findinf peoples loud obsession with 24 a little off putting.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, theres only so much people can let everyone know how much they love a tv show before it begins to get nauseating.
TTC, I'm with you.
ReplyDeleteRF - Totally different type of show...!
ReplyDeleteLT - I'm actually not liking certain things about it (they stopped with the real-time, even though they pretend to have it, etc.), but it's still incredibly addictive.
JA - Catch up! :) Don't worry, no spoilers here...
TTC/SaraK - I hear that. I'm with that way about most shows people go on about. But when you're watching it... that's just how you feel.
I was anxious to see what CAIR and Fox had to say about niddah. . .
ReplyDeleteMiI - LOL
ReplyDeleteWhat is 24 about? (I don't watch television.)
ReplyDeleteThe basic premise began as a show of 24 episodes, each one being one hour of a 24-hour period. The show runs in real-time: If it takes 20 minutes to drive somewhere, it will take 20 minutes of show time to drive there. (Or at least, for the first few seasons, until they started cheating.)
ReplyDeleteThe plot of season 1 centers around a counter-terrorist unit and one of the people who works there's family and personal life, mostly the counter-terrorist stuff. The next seasons then are spaced out over years, each a year or two after one another, but each taking place in one day.
Generally, if you watch the first episode of Season 1, you are very likely to get hooked - it's that good. And Season 1 was the slowest season of them all, which shows you how crazy the others have been. If you do decide to ever watch them, start from Season 1.
Ezzie, I just spent the time to fill out the survey and then got an error message! I'm not putting more time to it. I don't know if "Niddah" is an apt name for this survey, it seems concerned with the times on as well as times off. Some of the optinos don't cover everything. For example, kallah classes are not only learned in a class setting, but very often one-on-one from an instructor. It doesn't give an option to specify that over a class in general. Also, BTW, you will generally only find the term Niddah referred to in context of quoting that Talmudic Tractate. Otherwise, today it seems, everyone says "Taharas Hamishpacha" or family purity, in stead.
ReplyDeletecorrection a space snuck in the middle of the word. It should be "instead". I did a post on this, but they'll have to visit here to get the survey link.
ReplyDeletecorrection a space snuck in the middle of the word. It should be "instead". I did a post on this, but they'll have to visit here to get the survey link.
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