Ida,

Actually David N. Weiss, a Modern Orthodox Jew, is beginning his second term as VICE president of the Writers Guild of America West (not President).

For coverage see

http://www.forward.com/articles/11990/

Actual these strikes would make for an interesting discussion of Jewish ethics, separate from the question of having to talk to each other. I don't remember too much about how workers are to be treated but I know that that Torah commands there be a parapet wall to protect the roofer and that workers be paid after each day's work. Does any one know how the Writers guild's demands would be treated "Jewishly". By the way, I understand the current President of the Guild is an observant Jew who leaves the picket line for his daily prayers.

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Mike, main man, sorry, I forgot to ask too:

You sure there is nothing in the 10 Commandments against this "talk to each other"? Hey, can't do a boner on that!

Don't want to "be left behind", you know. Not after reading those left-behind-books/saga about after-the-rapture?! That part of what you're majoring in?

What would be nice is if you can convince some school boards to start talking to parents before they give contraceptives and such to their own children in the what? 3rd grade/levels?

Anyway, this talk-to-each-other thing cuts both ways. It is good, for instance as in Sodom and Gomorrah (that how's it spelled?) if Lot kept talking to his wife, she wouldn't have time to look back and become a pillar of salt? Or not so, when Abraham with Sarah did talked too much that he almost did not become the "father of nations." That would have been BADDD! I mean where would Israel be today? Non-existent! OH, on the other hand...

S__T! Where's the remote? I know there may be nothing to watch in the tv, but my fingers need exercising.

Bye for now.
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Oh, s__t! Michael.
OK, Mike, you the main man, let me ask you some questions:

Do we have to? Talk to each other? Parents to children and vice-versa? Wife to husband, well, that has been going on (too much, you say?) AND husband may now talk back to wife? And brother to brother to sister? And students to teachers? And laymen to priests or pastors? And politicians will listen as we talk to them? Wow!

It was trying enough to exchange grunts, and Huhs, and Well, whatevers, and You knows. And as we breeze pass each other: "Hi, Hello, HoweryouOK?Seeyou! And now you say we have to talk to each other? Really?

Like when? Are there appointed times? Places? Rules of engagement?

Isn't that un-American?

Isn't this against "privacy"? Do we need to read Miranda something-or-another before we talk? If there is an "age for sex" is there an "age for talk"?

How will we talk to one another? Can parents engage intelligibly with "teen-talk"? Must their children answer back in complete sentences? Really, do we observe all grammar rules or what?

Most important of all: WHAT WILL WE TALK ABOUT?

This is a bummer!!!
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