{"id":608,"date":"2006-01-17T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/pish_de_chuss_en_de_yom.html"},"modified":"2006-01-17T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T18:17:51","slug":"pish_de_chuss_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/pish_de_chuss_e.html","title":{"rendered":"Pish De Chuss En De Yom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling with reconciling support for your party and the tenets of Leviticus? Simply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/383268p-325368c.html\">sneak out to take a leak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City Councilman Simcha Felder may have given new meaning to &#8220;chutzpah&#8221; . . .<\/p>\n<p>Felder, a Democrat and Orthodox Jew who represents Borough Park, actively supported Christine Quinn in her successful bid to become speaker of the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, he took a convenient powder during the Jan. 4 voice vote that elected Quinn, who is openly gay, so as not to offend some of his more conservative Hasidic and Orthodox constituents, who are said to view homosexuality as &#8220;a grave sin&#8221; that is forbidden by Jewish rabbinic law.<\/p>\n<p>Felder made a well-timed visit to the men&#8217;s room at the rear of the Council Chambers during the actual vote for speaker to avoid being recorded as having voted or abstained, according to a report published last week by The Jewish Week.<\/p>\n<p>So who does Felder invite to be one of the VIP speakers tomorrow night at his third-term Council inauguration celebration at Brooklyn Borough Hall?<\/p>\n<p>You guessed it &#8212; Quinn. Now that is chutzpah.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but Quinn has accepted the invitation, according to a spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s not chutzpah enough, several Council insiders report that Felder is in line to be tapped by Quinn to be chairman of a committee dealing with mental health, mental retardation, alcoholism, drug abuse and disability services.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insultmonger.com\/swearing\/yiddish.htm\">How to swear, insult, cuss and curse in Yiddish!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling with reconciling support for your party and the tenets of Leviticus? Simply sneak out to take a leak: City Councilman Simcha Felder may have given new meaning to &#8220;chutzpah&#8221; . . . Felder, a Democrat and Orthodox Jew who represents Borough Park, actively supported Christine Quinn in her successful bid to become speaker of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}