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I am tired of reading about the supposed chasm between Godly America and Worldly America. My Judaism is very important to me. My beliefs on moral/ethical issues such as how to define a just war guide my vote. One reason that I firmly believe in the division between church and state comes from my knowledge, as a present-day Conservative Jew and as a scholar interested in the history of religions, that the value structure endorsed by any one religion at any one time is a construct that may bear little resemblance to the values of the same religion at a different time, or to the values of any other contemporary religion. I'm part of the Religious Left, and I vote.

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Kosher machines!

In a refrigerator on Shabbat mode, lights stay off and displays are blank; tones are silenced, fans stilled, compressors slowed. In a kosher fridge, there's no light, no automatic icemaker, no cold-water dispenser, no warning alarm for spoiled food, no temperature readout. Basically, Ottensoser converts your fancy - and expensive - appliance into the one your grandma bought after World War II.

Non-political happy picture meme, first seen at prosewitch's LJ: