Jewlicious Responds to Newsweek‘s “Is Your Rabbi Hot or Not?” with signature snarkiness. Jewlicious asked me via Twitter to take a look. I didn’t expect to get riled up but then I noticed the line, “What kind of name for a rabbi is ‘Rolando’?” Jewlicious was poking fun at Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon who was born and bred in Buenos Aires. And that’s when I went ghetto.
In my post on Jewlicious, I wrote back:
What kind of name is Rolando? What kind of name is Eric! Don’t go dissing us Spanish folks.
And then in Twitter, I wrote:
@jewlicious: I’m getting ghetto on your bootie, son. You did not just diss the name Rolando. Spanish people revolt!
So you heard me, get on that website and make sure to strike fear in the hearts of people who can’t roll their r’s.
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I can roll my R’s… half my synagogue back in Montreal is Spanish! We have Armandos and a whole slew of VERY Spanish names. Spanish is heard at my shul more often than Hebrew in casual conversation. Anyone that follows Jewlicious knows that I never shut up about being Sephardic – thus I was being facetious. However, I can understand why a casual visitor might not get it and so I apologize for causing offense. Also I’m a guy! BTW, I retweeted your blog post!
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Okay, okay, I forgive you.
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