Sacrifices
Father-of-three Abe Karpen gave up his (likely) one shot at Hollywood fame so his kids wouldn't be thrown out of school. Mysteriously, the Hassidic cabinet salesman was cast as husband for Natalie Portman in one of the 12 vignettes making up "New York I Love You."
He already said he wouldn't hold her hand in a scene from the movie because Hassidic husbands don't publicly hold their wifes' hands. Standing up for religion wasn't enough; it was important the father stand up for ignorance — The Daily News quoted "activist" Isaac Weinberger, "We don't watch television. We don't go to the movies, so to be in a movie is the worst thing. It's a shame for any Hasid."
Just wait until Weinberger hears that an Israeli family court confirmed Giora Shavit and Avi Shadiv as the two legal fathers of their adopted son. Or about the program of Minister of Welfare and Social Services Isaac Herzog encouraging adoption by same-sex parents.
Probably not as important to Weinberger, but even more shocking to others, there is a movement (?) to let Fathers father. University of Manchester professor Conrad Leyser claims that celibacy for priests was developed not for religious reasons but to keep the religious better under control (as if Fathers or fathers could ever get out of control). He writes that about 1000 years ago celibacy was imposed to keep the Fathers from siphoning church funds to wives (and lovers) and children ... and no doubt to keep them quiet about The Da Vinci Code conspiracy of Jewish carpenter (cabinet salesman?) daddy Jesus and his child with Mary Magdalene.
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