1. An interesting thing about our secular society, how swimmingly Jewish folk and Christians get along.
Anyone realize that just about every popular Christmas song was written by a Jewish guy?
Well, except for "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" ...." a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis.Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane."
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
The lyrics were written by Hugh Martin, a Seventh-day Adventist
So....Christmas songs are only written by folks who celebrate the Sabbath on Saturdays?
2. Another 'anomaly' noted by the NYSun....Liberal Hollywood, generally irreligious, produced a film, “Exodus: Gods and Kings” ...
"That I would love the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings” I knew from the moment I read the verdict of the reviewers — they hated it.
3 . Another review had a headline: 'Spoiler Alert: God Wins.', what in blazes did they expect? .... We know God wins, and we still keep coming back. No doubt the reason is that the original facts are so inspiring that even those artists who fall short — compared to Moses, everyone does — can still amaze.
4. .... the wonderfully diverse audience ...everyone knew the plot. Many of them retell it every year. The commandment that Jews think of ourselves as having been personally at Sinai is one that millions keep.
5. The battle scenes — the horses, the chariots, the sound effects, the pace — are some of the best ever filmed. It’s Moses who saves Ramses. Moses discovers who he really is at Pithon, where he is sent by the Pharaoh to investigate the conditions of the Hebrew slaves.
6. .... at Midian, he meets and marries Zipporah under the wedding canopy we now know of as the chuppah. In the movie it is of a blue and white striped cloth, foreshadowing the prayer shawls known as tallit and the flag of Israel.
7. God’s revelation to Moses is the most controversial part of the film — in that He appears not only as a voice from the burning bush but, in Ridley Scott’s embroidery, as a young boy — presumably the “angel of the Lord” in Exodus 3 — beside the flames.
8. .... when Moses returns to Egypt and warns the Pharaoh. We watch Ramses rage — “but I am the god!” — as the rivers run red and Egypt is beset by locusts, boils, lice and hail. Mrs. Ramses wakes up screaming in a bed swarming with frogs. We see Ramses discover his own firstborn son dead in his gilded crib. It is hard to imagine that the plagues will ever be more astonishingly evoked." Thunder Out of Egypt Ridley Scott Directs Rollicking Good Exodus - The New York Sun
Anyone realize that just about every popular Christmas song was written by a Jewish guy?
Well, except for "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" ...." a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis.Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane."
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
The lyrics were written by Hugh Martin, a Seventh-day Adventist
So....Christmas songs are only written by folks who celebrate the Sabbath on Saturdays?
2. Another 'anomaly' noted by the NYSun....Liberal Hollywood, generally irreligious, produced a film, “Exodus: Gods and Kings” ...
"That I would love the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings” I knew from the moment I read the verdict of the reviewers — they hated it.
3 . Another review had a headline: 'Spoiler Alert: God Wins.', what in blazes did they expect? .... We know God wins, and we still keep coming back. No doubt the reason is that the original facts are so inspiring that even those artists who fall short — compared to Moses, everyone does — can still amaze.
4. .... the wonderfully diverse audience ...everyone knew the plot. Many of them retell it every year. The commandment that Jews think of ourselves as having been personally at Sinai is one that millions keep.
5. The battle scenes — the horses, the chariots, the sound effects, the pace — are some of the best ever filmed. It’s Moses who saves Ramses. Moses discovers who he really is at Pithon, where he is sent by the Pharaoh to investigate the conditions of the Hebrew slaves.
6. .... at Midian, he meets and marries Zipporah under the wedding canopy we now know of as the chuppah. In the movie it is of a blue and white striped cloth, foreshadowing the prayer shawls known as tallit and the flag of Israel.
7. God’s revelation to Moses is the most controversial part of the film — in that He appears not only as a voice from the burning bush but, in Ridley Scott’s embroidery, as a young boy — presumably the “angel of the Lord” in Exodus 3 — beside the flames.
8. .... when Moses returns to Egypt and warns the Pharaoh. We watch Ramses rage — “but I am the god!” — as the rivers run red and Egypt is beset by locusts, boils, lice and hail. Mrs. Ramses wakes up screaming in a bed swarming with frogs. We see Ramses discover his own firstborn son dead in his gilded crib. It is hard to imagine that the plagues will ever be more astonishingly evoked." Thunder Out of Egypt Ridley Scott Directs Rollicking Good Exodus - The New York Sun
