Friday, July 10, 2009

Riot on Shabbat, Refuse the Nation

For the past month, Orthodox Jews (the ones dressed in black with the long side-burn thingys I call "boing-a-boings") have been rioting the opening of a parking lot that's intended to be open on Shabbat. They riot on Shabbat. People have been hurt and the parking lot has remained closed as a result of their actions. Shabbat is a day of rest and study. These certain Orthodox Jews ( and I stress certain because I don't want people who read this to generalize to all Orthodox Jews) who do not participate in the army, when there are religious options, feel like they can disturb the peace about a parking lot that is nowhere near their religious area of Mea Sharim. Instead, they should be studing Torah or spending time with their families. I guess they forget that this is a secular country and all they are doing is casting a poor light on the Orthodox and religious Jews in general.
Anyways...I went to a museum for Menachem Begin (pronounced Bay-gen) that was really cool. He was all for the state of Israel and was able to get things done. He wasn't a Hawk and focused on Israel from the inside out. A policy I like. Maybe America could do the same. But who am I to talk, I haven't been back in the states in half a year. But that will change shortly in less than a month.
Life is good though. Tonight I will be having dinner with Rabbi Elbaz, a highly-intelligent man with a great sense of humor. Well time to go for a run in the heat. See a lot of you soon!

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