Amish tour Lubavitcher neighborhood

[mord]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3695558,00.html   










http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090331/ap_on_re_us/amish_in_brooklyn 

There, a cross-cultural misunderstanding caused one of the Jewish men to look at the Amish, and ask, repeatedly, "Are you from Usbekhistan?"

An Amish man, also confused, asked, "Afghanistan?"

Finally, as they were leaving, another Amish man announced to the matzo-makers: "We're from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania!"

[takebackourtemple]

   Both groups hold on to traditional values. The I can't speak for the Amish, but contrary to popular thought, the Lubavitcher do not discard modern the modern world. One of their fundamental values is to bring faith to the modern world instead of let the modern world take over it.

[Ultra Requete]

That's true multiculturalism when you respect you traditions as well as those of neighbours; miles a head of hardline secularists or muslims.

[briann]

I hate it when Muslims try to compare themselves to the Amish/Hasidics/Sikhs, etc..... saying that they hold on to their traditional values/attire/ideology just like the Amish/Hasidics do.

[Ulli]

I hate it when Muslims try to compare themselves to the Amish/Hasidics/Sikhs, etc..... saying that they hold on to their traditional values/attire/ideology just like the Amish/Hasidics do.

Me too.

[muman613]

I hate it when Muslims try to compare themselves to the Amish/Hasidics/Sikhs, etc..... saying that they hold on to their traditional values/attire/ideology just like the Amish/Hasidics do.

Yes it is sickening... Both Chassidis and Amish are mostly peaceful and loving people while most who embrace islam with ferver become violent and hateful people.

[Dr. Dan]

nice find.  Very interesting to see two very different groups respecting and learning from each other without feeling threatened by the other.  Isn't that what it is really about?

[DownwithIslam]

This is interesting to say the least. I don't see anything wrong with the amish coming, that is for sure. They do indeed seem like very peaceful people.

[Ulli]

The mother-church of the Mennonites and the Amish is near my home-town. 

It is Emden.

http://www.mennoniten.de/emden.html

[briann]

An interesting side note.

The Amish are actually not that small of a group.   They are about 230,000 people, and they double in numbers every decade.  Apparently they have a pretty high birth rate, and they also have lots of voluntary converts.

[Ulli]

An interesting side note.

The Amish are actually not that small of a group.   They are about 230,000 people, and they double in numbers every decade.  Apparently they have a pretty high birth rate, and they also have lots of voluntary converts.

Thank you for telling. I am surprised - positively.

The Hutterites have nearly no converts.

[Dr. Dan]

I remember a funny scene in the Frisco Kid when the main character gets rescued by these Amish people and assumes they are Hassids...and then when he sees their cross, faints...

[takebackourtemple]

I hate it when Muslims try to compare themselves to the Amish/Hasidics/Sikhs, etc..... saying that they hold on to their traditional values/attire/ideology just like the Amish/Hasidics do.

Yes it is sickening... Both Chassidis and Amish are mostly peaceful and loving people while most who embrace islam with ferver become violent and hateful people.

   Actually many years ago when I wanted to find out what the conservative movement was about I went to one. I don't remember if it was Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur. The false Rabbi would talk about stories in Genesis and keep inserting commentary for Mohammad YS"Z. Hmmm. Who should we look to for commentary. Rashi, the Rambam, the Baal Shem Tov and the Rebbes, Rav Kahane ZT"L. I can't even write the piece of trashes name in the same sentence as such scholars. There is no comparison when evil Muslims twist the accounts of the torah.

[New Yorker]

I'm not surprised really, righteous people are naturally drawn to each other. Just like us JTFer's.