{"id":179217,"date":"2018-04-15T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/15\/this-is-fed-up-and-sh-4\/"},"modified":"2018-04-15T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:03:00","slug":"this-is-fed-up-and-sh-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/15\/this-is-fed-up-and-sh-4\/","title":{"rendered":"This is F%$#ed Up and Sh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An orthodox Jewish employee of Anne Frank House in Denmark was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/anne-frank-house-employee-says-he-was-barred-from-wearing-kippa\/\">told that he could not wear a Yarmulke to work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kafka would find this bizarre:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">For his first six months on the job, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam reportedly forbade a Jewish employee from wearing a kippa. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Twenty-five-year-old Barry Vingerling was told to remove his kippa upon showing up at his first day of work at the museum, according to a report Thursday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niw.nl\/anne-frank-huis-kiest-eieren-voor-zijn-geld\/\">NIW Dutch Jewish weekly<\/a>. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Museum officials explained that the Anne Frank House had a policy against donning religious symbols that would break with their \u201cneutrality\u201d efforts, Vingerling relayed to the NIW. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I guess that letting people know that there are Jews working at Anne Frank House would break with their &#8220;neutrality&#8221; efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase coined by Douglas Adams, &#8220;A bunch of mindless jerks who&#8217;ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,&#8221; appears to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An orthodox Jewish employee of Anne Frank House in Denmark was told that he could not wear a Yarmulke to work. Kafka would find this bizarre: For his first six months on the job, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam reportedly forbade a Jewish employee from wearing a kippa. Twenty-five-year-old Barry Vingerling was told to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[546,389,406,403,421],"class_list":["post-179217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-history","tag-stupid","tag-wanker","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}