Alef: The NEXT Conversation

14: Why We Kvetch

Look, we didn’t want to write this intro, alright?

We had plenty of other things we’d rather be doing. We could be eating a delicious hot open-face sandwich. We could be be reading about the best Jewish wrestlers of all time. We could be trimming our toe nails. Anything.

Instead, here we are, writing this intro for you folks. You, who in all likelihood, probably just skim these things before deciding to read something else, don’t you?

Fine. As our collective Jewish mothers once told us: We’ll sit in the dark.

…I tell you what, we’ll write this thing, but understand – We’re doing it because we want to, not because we have to. So, would it kill you to comment every once in a while? And, could you maybe, I’dknow, share an article or two? Is that so hard?

Oh, so you think we complain too much? Well, why shouldn’t we! Jews in America have a long and illustrious history of turning dissatisfaction into an art form. Like this:

See? An art form.

So, for the next 5 days, Alef is going to be running our favorite rants, raves, and bitch-sessions. After all, we’re tough to please, and so are you. Who knows, maybe after a week, we can answer that all-important (and all-Jewish) question: Why we Kvetch.

Photo by Joshua Rappeneker, Licensed under Creative Commons.

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Tags: Complain, Kvetch

Posted by Rafi, Sunday, April 25th, 2010, 7:26 pm, Kvetching.