Comments for Danae Elon films

Comment on Notes 2: The Identity Racket by vardavanderwieken

vardavanderwieken — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:05:32 +0000

hey danae, early morning. everyone still asleep, reading your words. they moved me. its a hectic world and sometimes it is clear to me that the underlying rule to it all is making people move and act in ways that should ease their pain but often does just exactly the opposite. in general though people’s ways are all just very confusing. anyways i love your honesty and your love of people. thanks. big hug. varda.

Comment on Ave Maria by RD

RD — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:21:27 +0000

Having a trained choir be part of religious services, and/or having the entire congregation sing as part of the service, are durable Christian inventions. I have witnessed a woman’s choir be part of a Hindu New Year service in a temple. I see, Ms Elon, that this practice appeals to you, the secular Jew, as well. There are reasons why Christianity has proved powerfully appealing historically. You have stumbled on one of them.

Comment on Notes 2: The Identity Racket by danaeelon

danaeelon — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:26:21 +0000

Thank you George, your words and feelings mean very much to me.

Comment on Notes 2: The Identity Racket by George Spiro Dibie,ASC

George Spiro Dibie,ASC — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:31:19 +0000

As before…I love the way you think,act and progress in LIFE…I think of Jerusalem a lot these days since we reconnected….Yuval who shot my interview for the TV Academy sent me some photos of Katamon,Jerusalem, where I was born and lived until 1948 January 5 I think ??We lived very close to a Hotel called(I think) villa Samiramis…It was bombed by Begin’s people not the Hagana….then my dad took us to Ramallah…Because of you I am remembering a lot these days…What you wrote above is a great script for a movie…we need to add Anna Baltzer’s experiences in the occupied territories …..love you and cheers….

Comment on Another Road Home by Tammy Allen

Tammy Allen — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:05:18 +0000

I feel as though anything I might say about this film would be redundant, compared to the previous reviews posted here. I have no agenda to impose. I just really liked it and would encourage others to at least watch it!

Comment on Notes: Beneath Calatrava’s Bridge, against traffic. by vincenzo

vincenzo — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:17:29 +0000

…sempre cemento sul passato
cemento sui ricordi cemento sulle pietre cemento sul cemento.
A new alliance: culture and cement, for a more discreet ethnic cleansing.

Comment on GODLESS, notes from Jerusalem by Rosella

Rosella — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:15:52 +0000

Danae, I am so looking forward to hear of your adventures as your story in Jerusalem unfolds. I am sure that this will be a compelling and thought-provoking film, as all of your work has been. Sending you much love, health and happiness in your latest life journey. xo

Comment on Partly Private Salon Interview by Randy

Randy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:58:41 +0000

It astounds me that this has to be said, but the voluntary ritual or surgical mutilation of a child’s genitals is never the right thing to do. It’s difficult to see it as anything other than child sexual abuse. The reasons given for circumcising baby boys are grasping and minimal: expected poor hygiene later in life, prevention of HIV that can be easily prevented other ways, prevention of very rare disease, membership in a group that can only be verified by checking out each other’s penises, some deity told some long-dead guy to do it. Even if you think these reasons are right, the child is not yours, and neither is his body. As a human being, he — and he alone — has the right to decide what gets voluntarily mutilated on his own body. He should certainly be old enough to have had the opportunity to have sex as it is, before deciding whether he wants to cut the most sensitive third of the skin off his penis. It’s really as simple as that. It’s not yours.

Comment on Partly Private Salon Interview by RD

RD — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:24:53 +0000

That the Jews chose to put the cattle brand denoting Jewishness on the most private part of the male body (not just the penis but the tip of the penis) is, in my view, very revealing of its true purpose. It is the part of the body that is easiest to conceal if you wish to conceal it. So if it’s dangerous to be a Jew and Jews are marked, that mark is the least risky one to have.

But that mark is much harder to conceal from one person: his spouse. I submit that the real purpose of circ is to make intermarriage more difficult as follows. First, it makes it harder for a Jewish woman to marry a non-Jew. If the groom claims to be Jewish but isn’t, he will be found out on the wedding night. If he admits to not being Jewish and she goes ahead and marries him, she will be reminded of her betrayal of her people every time she does foreplay on him. If a Jewish young man wants to slip away and melt into the general run of humanity, his wedding night will be very awkward. For a Jewish man to explain to his gentile fiance that his organ will not work like what she expects, would be a conversation awkward in the extreme. It’s much simpler to marry a nice Jewish girl who expects a bald penis.

My tentative conclusion is that Jewish parents who don’t mind if a son marries out of the faith, should not circumcise him.

Comment on Partly Private Salon Interview by patriciarobinett

patriciarobinett — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:47:27 +0000

If you read “The Book of J”, the original history of the Jewish people, you will find no circumcision covenant in it. It was added hundreds of years after Abraham’s death. There should be no guilt or shame or blame in not obeying a non-covenant. The editors who added circumcision to the Abraham story also sexed up and violenced up the rape of Dinah story. It was undoubtedly a good way to mark a tribe… or slaves. Now that we wear clothes, tho, maybe we ought to cut off an ear instead?