Is that this non-Jew seems to be married to a Jewish woman.

My wife refuses to buy our son anything that has small parts or projectiles. Yet, TV is full of commercials about video games that are violent. I think we should teach our children to make the right choices, instead of making the choices for them. Maybe not a BB Gun, but the battleship that fires a missile. Sure. Why not? Malik Salhani

Gil? Whaddaya mean?

If Roy Hanania has won an award for his writing, criteria must have deteriorated precipitously. He could benefit from a class in English grammar.

We can have carebear suicide bombers for palestinian kids and we can have carebear on a merkava or a golani carebear for israeli kids and palestinian kids living outside gaza/westbank can get a whole cake with the whole of Israel and gaza/westbank map on top (because they want the whole thing after all, thats why Abas always praises the martyrs who blow up people in buses and cafes) Baahumbug

We Jews generally go for cute and educational, you go for battleship Bismarck and a gun with a scope. Hey, it's your argument , not mine. You titled it. Can there be peace? I think, only when you put your toy and other guns down and pick up the "cute." The alternative is for us to pick up the guns, and when we do, the entire world becomes unhinged with a shock and starts screaming for us put our guns down, since they fervently believe that the Jews must submit to the will and hostility of others. Of cause, you could have made the entire argument from the male vs. female perspective and the entire argument could've become apolitical and very true at the same time ( I cannot see any woman picking crossbow for her child, as a gift.) Your choice. Happy Holidays (both) to your entire family.

I am Jewish married to a Israeli arab... I guess you must feel I am sick too....GIL GET A GRIP RACISM IS OUT THIS CENTURY

just it is a true story .when i was 7 years i saved some mony gave it to my father telling him to bye me a neck lace golden with a small kuran in it and toled him i seeit with my friend and i like to have one .my mother said it is expensive and you must bye four to the four girls [as iam the fourth girl in the family ]and this need 15 dinars which is the half of the sallerry of the father ....my father said she is the only one saved mony and he bout it to me tell now i feel this sweet happy moment

When you seven years old, you wanted Koran, as the best possible gift, and I wanted a puppy and a new doll who said "mama" and could close and open her eyes, hence the difficulty for us to communicate -- different values and priorities. Most 7-years olds I have met want bikes, action figures, dolls; all of them want a cute puppy (real), some want kittens (also real,) but puppies win hands down.

I'm sorry i know that my view on this matter is offensive to people but I feel strongly that the Jewish nation needs to survive intact by marrying together. How do I know this? I myself am the product of a mixed marriage. My mum converted to reform Judaism my dad was Orthodox and now reform. Do you realise the hell that I have been through? Obviously not. Kids from such mixed pairings struggle with their identity and often lose it altogether after despairing about which side they belong to. And it is not straight forward, even when the mother is the Jewish partner. Especially the famillies of either side may pay lip service but in reality their true feelings are more than clear to the half Jewish / half whatever kid involved. My own journey has resulted in aliyah to Israel where I will marry a Jewish Israeli girl and have a Jewish family with kids that don't have a complex. I expect that no-one will understand this. You all come from a good and enlightened place but simply I and many people of mixed marriages know different.

iam the moslem from jerusalem but now i am not 7 years and i will tell you the fact it was the best gift in that time becouse i saw it with my friend and i like to have one i do not know about kuran as abook simply becouse achilde and need a golden gift and i like this one this is the truth only and when i got it i was so happy becouse it is expensive and gold only and i payed less than the tenth of hit price this is the truthe and till now i feel the sweet and happy of that moment as it was .....now iam more than 50 years old i read the kuran every day and iam happy and believe it is the best gift from god to the humanity this is the truth now ./yes my friend i finde so easy to put my hand inside my selfe to show you what i have as if i put my hand in my pocket to show you what i have and i have fine things good and nice not evil

my favrit toy waz a luvly falistinyan pony thet my fathre got it fur me wen muy sister and me we beged and beged fur thet falistinyan pony they sell it for 30 shkels but we luv it and play much with it we do and laff loud like a frog.,

tha favrit touy iz thi aravbyan knigght it hiz colers super and mek scream gerls pliy with et hew i lav thit arabyan knit.

fur miy eet wez elways wont new pants. muy fertherr hi cud not afard te biy mi the new pants sew wun dai ei sii this luverly niw pants een nablus high street speshul pant shop corled nie pants R us... i rern in and snetch muy ferverit per of niuew pents ant thern ii rern an rern vith muy niuew pants, batt thet wuz bafor thu intiferda ant nuw i niid ther niuew pents agin.

Yeve, ES YOU ARE SICK,,YOU DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RACE AND RELIGION..YOU ARE ANOTHER WASTED SEED. GIL THE ONLY THINK SICK ABOUT THIS STORY IS THAT IT SEEMS A JEW IS MARRIED TO A NON JEW... OHH DID YOU SAY THAT ALREADY. GIL NOW IN REALITY THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS REFORM OR CONSERVATIVE..YOU KNOW THAT AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT... THERE ARE OBSERVERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS. THE PROBLELM IS THAT THE CULT CALLED REFORM AND CONSERVATIVE HAS THEIR PLATEAU OF KNOWLEDGE..THEY REACED IT AT AGE 13.. TORAH JEWS TRY , THEN FALL. THEN TRY AGAIN to go higher, AND LEARN FROM AUTHENTIC HEBREW WRITINGS.., NOT ALTERED AND ADULTERATED GARBAGE. YOU GIL ARE AT A VERY IMPORTANT PLACE. TEach your children torah or ...well ....i will not verbalize the rest ...... Gil when is child is converted, when they reach age 13 they must stand before a bet din and pledge to suppoort torah or go on their way.... do you want your chjildren to face that same situation? or give them the true baiscs of torah . look at yourself..you choose the path on the left...arent you missing something?

I ALWAYS GET CONFUSED IN LIFE IS THIS THE ARAB VERSION OF YOUR SITE? I MEAN I HEARD THAT HA'ARETZ NOW HAS A XTIAN PRINT EDITION SO IS THIS YOUR THRUST FOWARD. AT LEAST SERVE PITA AND HUMUS AND SHISH KABOB AND RIZ AND FASOOLYE WITH THESE ARABS

Hi people. Don't any of you out there who are driven by hardline political views need to turn on your sense of humor? Come on folks. Why so much hatred? Anger? It's not becoming of Israelis or Palestinians, Jews or Arabs. Why not at least try to see the soft side of life. Maybe you will all become better people. Many of you who write need to do something. :) You know, more people are murdered in Chicago in one year than throughout the entire State fo Israel and the Palestinian territories. You should be at least grateful for that. And Chicago isn't even the worst city any more. Of course, anger needs a ventilation. You have to be able to vent. So, if I am your plumber that allows you to vent, so be it. Maybe that will also help make you all better people. Many of you need it! An early Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas! Thanks Ray Hanania

Love your column - As someone whose Jewish name was taken from IL Peretz, the great Yiddish writer and humorist, I'd say that lack of a sense humor is the one sure sign of fanaticsm. Keep up the good work.

But you don't! Hell son how many people does it take to tell you this ? Every time Y Net posts some of your stuff the masses come out and spray paint it on the inside of your eye lids!! Dut then you may not be able to read it being blid to the truth , facts, history etc,,,, oh well maybe "Hanukkah Harry" will bring you a true sence of humor this year and exchange it for the one you thought you owned!

"Keep it up Jack!" You are one cool guy!

Thankfully.

Well, they used it a title of a cute soft porn movie a couple of decades ago.

Gil, have you ever picked up a bible? Do you know the founder of the Jewish nation had a non-Jewish wife. That was Abraham, incidentally, and one of his two wifes was Egyptian. And what about Ruth the Moabitess? Or Caleb? Or the mixed multitude who came out of Egypt? I'm sorry to hear of your pain of growing up in a 'mixed' household, but you're an adult now and you have to take responsibility for the things you write on a forum like this. Of course marriage is easier when it's founded on a strong base of shared beliefs and values - but whether your ancestry matches or not... does that really really matter? Maybe you'll have to DNA test your wife,just to check she really is Jewish. In my experience, people like you end up eating their words. Israeli women are some of the most beautiful women in the world, but simply because of your untempered idealism I'm betting you'll probably marry a beautiful Gentile. . . All the best!