{"id":344971,"date":"2025-12-15T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/oh-me-of-little-faith-a-holiday-observance-by-howard-chaykin-first-comics-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:14:40","slug":"oh-me-of-little-faith-a-holiday-observance-by-howard-chaykin-first-comics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=344971","title":{"rendered":"OH, ME OF LITTLE FAITH A holiday observance by Howard Chaykin \u2013 First Comics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The first five years of my relationship with my wife\u2013a converso\u2013conversa?\u2013were spent with her constantly apologizing for the awful things I say to people, and annually trying to get me to attend High Holy Days services at a shul of her choice.<\/p>\n<p>She finally stopped apologizing for me when she realized that although she knew I meant every word I said, unfiltered as I am, everyone else assumed I was just kidding. Nobody would say such a thing, right?<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I never kid. Some have tourettes, I have fourettes.<\/p>\n<p>And she finally quit trying to drag my ass into a synagogue when the futility of this mission became obvious with my insistence that \u201cI\u2019m so good at being Jewish, I don\u2019t have to practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a devout atheist, who considers himself Jewish. Not Semitic\u2013there\u2019s nothing middle eastern about me\u2013but Eastern European\u2013from that part of the world just before Asia rears its head. This is what entitles the current spate of crypto-Nazis to question whether Jews are European at all. Some shit just never gets old, am I right?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a Jew because, as anyone who pays attention to the history of the world since Jesus showed up, I\u2019m a member of a club from which I am not permitted to resign. So in regard to faith, holidays, and other seasonal anomalies, I\u2019m not your go-to guy.<\/p>\n<p>And if the current thrust of realpolitik continues in the arc it seems to be embracing, my lack of faith seems utterly justified\u2026unless you accept, as I do, that with all the anathema that exists among us, socially, ethnically and racially speaking, one thing remains universally constant\u2013everyone hates the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Best of the holiday season,<br \/>Howard Chaykin<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"awpa-title\">About Author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-post-author-wrap wp-post-author-shortcode left\">\n<div class=\"awpa-tab-content active\" id=\"37_awpa-tab1\">\n<div class=\"wp-post-author\">\n<div class=\"awpa-img awpa-author-block round\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcomicsnews.com\/author\/howard-chaykin\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8c93fc60321ea026a61f762cf834525671d4e21c89a4ef36fa9d2c841ecfc534?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8c93fc60321ea026a61f762cf834525671d4e21c89a4ef36fa9d2c841ecfc534?s=300&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-post-author-meta awpa-author-block\">\n<h4 class=\"awpa-display-name\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcomicsnews.com\/author\/howard-chaykin\/\">Howard Chaykin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-post-author-meta-bio\">\n<p>Howard Chaykin is a longtime veteran of the comic book business, serving as an artist and writer for nearly every publisher of comics in the past four decades\u2026and counting. He took the \u201990s off to work on mostly unwatchable television, so he missed the money and dreck that was comics in that execrable decade. He is responsible, some might say culpable, for introducing a number of previously unexplored themes to comic books. If you\u2019re not hip to what that\u2019s supposed to mean, there\u2019s always Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first five years of my relationship with my wife\u2013a converso\u2013conversa?\u2013were spent with her constantly apologizing for the awful things I say to people, and annually trying to get me to attend High Holy Days services at a shul of her choice. 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