Born Again Redneck's Daily Duh!: The Jewish New Year

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Jewish New Year

If you've ever spent the socalled "Jewish New Year" with Jews, you'll see what I mean by this:

Rosh Hashanah is more like a day marking the end of a year rather than the beginning. Unlike our New Year when we focus giddily and somewhat foolishly on the unkown future and hope for more more more, Rosh Hashanah is a sober sane calm and practical holy day for reflecting on the past, being grateful for the year that we have just lived through, repenting our sins and thanking God for what we have already been given rather than hoping for what we wish to be given. It's more about gratitude than greed.

Maybe it's my Jewish genes but I much prefer the Jewish New Year to the drunken childish idiocy of the Western New Year.

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From Fred Thompson's blog, Fred08 on November 26th, 2007:

More Praise for Fred’s Tax Relief Plan - Patrick Joubert Conlon at Born Again Redneck called the plan, “music to a businessman’s ears.”

C.D. Jewell,

Liberalstein,

"This blog interested me first because of the title. But the quality of Patrick Joubert Conlon's writing has kept me coming back. His style is not presumptuous or pompous or condescending; it's plain and simple. Good old American English. Which is funny because Mr. Conlon was born and lived in South Africa for his first twenty one years and after that spent eight years in England before finding his home here in the U. S. His blog provides a rare outsider/insider perspective on the U. S. of A. He's been linked to by CNN on a couple of occasions and one of his posts was cited by the official Fred08 website. He does a lot of politics but also some lighter fare as well. He frequently posts spectacular photos taken on his Oregon farm."