Kissing Yemenite Lips in TLV…Jewish Lips |
Day 4 – Chanukah 2025
Kislev 28, 5786
December 17, 2025. 18:00
“Kissing Yemenite Lips in TLV: Jewish lips”
A tired distinction is often drawn between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. You know the stereotypes. I won’t rehearse them. Instead, let me ask a more uncomfortable question: do “holy” and “sinful” truly apply to cities in the Land of Israel—or are they inventions of rigid minds and stiff necks, our clumsy attempt to box in whatever we choose to call “religion”?
The Greeks tried to do exactly that to us. To divide and conquer our identity. To domesticate our peoplehood at the altars of Hellenism. Greek art celebrated gods and heroes with intact foreskins, the covered penis as an ideal of natural beauty—a notion later echoed by the Romans. They opposed brit milah. Circumcision itself became ideological resistance.
But this is Israel. 2025. And for the record, note:
There is no distinction between the people of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Read it again. Slowly now.
There is no distinction between the people of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.........