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Just browsing this thread, and I have to say this is the first time I have ever seen/heard or been aware of the term Masorti.
Googled and now I know, so thank you for using that term.
Just browsing this thread, and I have to say this is the first time I have ever seen/heard or been aware of the term Masorti.
Googled and now I know, so thank you for using that term.
There is a also another term known as Conservadox used primarily in the US which is more in line with Masorti than Conservative is.
@JB: I always wondered about how converts to Judaism dealt with any tattoos they had gotten prior to conversion. Thanks for sharing your own experience! Your rabbi sounds like a very wise man to have told you that you shouldn't go through the pain of removing them as that would be against Jewish law.
@Richard: "Squid"? You have a tattoo of a squid on you somewhere?
@Jess: That's cool that you're keeping your tattoos, and especially that they mean something special to you. I'll bet they are INKredible!
Squid is what sailors call each other...Kinda like Marines calling each other Jarhead...I have two tats, but I got them way back before I decided to walk the derech...
Squid is what sailors call each other...Kinda like Marines calling each other Jarhead...I have two tats, but I got them way back before I decided to walk the derech...
With a handle like "Coney" one would think you were from Brooklyn. Going 70 years back is a bit far fetched as numerous post WW2 military veterans had them. As early as the 1970's arm tattoos became fashionable so much that a beach in Brooklyn got the nickname Tattoo Beach. Many people had them, but they were hidden by clothing. It became more mainstream in the 90's with the neck tattoos above the shirt line and by the early 2000's it went past all clothing hidden lines.
Yes, I said that. Having a Dad who was a veteran in the American military and a history buff, I've got this.
After the Popeye the sailor era (remember Pluto?) and actually even at an earlier era, sailors or seamen (which would be the more correct term) had tattoos in the 19th century, other people in the military adopted tattoo wearing. I am more than aware of tattoo beach in Brooklyn, thanks. BTW, my handle, Coney, has absolutely nothing to do with Coney Island. It's related to an animal.
I have a tattoo that I wish I never got, it's on my upper arm, so it's not noticeable and I always wear long sleeves anyway.
I"ll just be embarrassed at the mikveh. It's big. I didn't know it was that big until half way through the procedure. My husband teases be because it's bigger than his.
He got his in Tech school, so they had limits on size.
The good thing is that it's a 911 memorial tattoo that I got after 911, and not any offensive or tacky tattoo, that's not my style anyway.
It's just big because I have small arms.
I'm seriously looking at tattoo laser removal. I heard that some methods of it aren't that painful.
Does anyone know much about it?
I have a tattoo that I wish I never got, it's on my upper arm, so it's not noticeable and I always wear long sleeves anyway.
I"ll just be embarrassed at the mikveh. It's big. I didn't know it was that big until half way through the procedure. My husband teases be because it's bigger than his.
He got his in Tech school, so they had limits on size.
The good thing is that it's a 911 memorial tattoo that I got after 911, and not any offensive or tacky tattoo, that's not my style anyway.
It's just big because I have small arms.
I'm seriously looking at tattoo laser removal. I heard that some methods of it aren't that painful.
Does anyone know much about it?
I can ask my friend who had it done. I know it's done in sessions. Her first tattoo was of a flower on her wrist and her artist messed it up.
It's National Poetry Write Month and I'm going to finish the challenge this year! I didn't really care for today's napowrimo.net prompt, so I wrote about an interesting dream I had last night.
It's time to get tattoo number three,
and this time my mom will join me;
I no longer feel that the art is taboo
and no need to hide my other tattoos,
what is it that will cover me?
I will get an another Insane Clown Posse
that will cover my wrist and arm, hear thee,
The Great Milenko, in colour, I coo-
time to get tattoo number three!
Yet, as we sit in the chairs at Old City,
a girl I've never seen, places like a temporary,
crying, I run to X-treme Ink, time for a new
artist, I see mom and dad on the table, they shoo,
and Doug goes to town, a colourful beauty-
tattoo number three after quarantine!
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