I got engaged last week to a nice Israeli boy, and part of the surprise was a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas, replete with a luxurious hotel room on the Strip. Having never been to Las Vegas, I was curious and excited to see what the infamous Sin City would be like. While I did find Las Vegas to be exciting, fun, and essentially an adult version of Disney World, I found myself often thinking of my Judaism and of...
- By sikva
- 15 Nov 2012
- 02:11PM
I have to agree with the above poster. First, there are plenty of moral, non-jewish people who are quite capable of recognizing that gambling is evil and dangerous. but that would ruin the authors concept of 'specialness'. numerous (non-jewish and jewish) people return from vegas and comment on how depressing it is. Second, you might want to comment on the fact that vegas was built by jews (siegel and lansky) and now has people like adelson profiting from it. Stupid article.
thank you
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