{"id":283,"date":"2006-06-08T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2006-06-08T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:44:00","slug":"an-israeli-swear-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/an-israeli-swear-word\/","title":{"rendered":"An Israeli Swear Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caspari.com\/mediareview\/2006\/06-06-06.html\">Caspari Center Media Review<\/a> is out and includes this paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a column explaining the monthly &#8220;hot&#8221; colloquialisms in Israeli culture, the business daily newspaper Globes (May 17) reports the frequent use of the words &#8220;Jesus Christ&#8221; (in English) as a term of frustration on the streets of Tel Aviv. Author Moran Sharir says, &#8220;It is heard so much (in Tel Aviv) that an outsider would think that that they were in born-again Christian territory.&#8221; Sharir explains, &#8220;the way the words &#8216;Jesus Christ&#8217; are mumbled indicates the level of annoyance.&#8221; The author explains that if the irritation is at its highest level then &#8220;&#8216;Jesus Christ Almighty&#8217; is needed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is indeed interesting that very few Israelis know anything (accurate) about Jesus, but that so many use his name.  Why is it that his name is so attractive as a swear word?  Is there any irony that the Jewish people use his name in vain?  I think that we can thank Hollywood for this export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Caspari Center Media Review is out and includes this paragraph: In a column explaining the monthly &#8220;hot&#8221; colloquialisms in Israeli culture, the business daily newspaper Globes (May 17) reports the frequent use of the words &#8220;Jesus Christ&#8221; (in English) as a term of frustration on the streets of Tel Aviv. Author Moran Sharir\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/an-israeli-swear-word\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}