Not on Shabbos!

May 31, 2007 by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Business, History and Culture, Politics 

Kuwait‘s government plans to decree Saturday an official rest day. The idea, however, is not going over well with some parliament members.

“Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath!” parliament member Mohammed El-Mutir complained. “We absolutely cannot make the day an official rest day.”

Currently the monarchy’s “weekend” falls on Thursday and Friday. But those days don’t coincide with the rest of the working world so the government will effect the proposed change as of September in order to ease up dealings with foreign markets.

Ironically, Kuwaiti chief Shiite religious leader Sheikh Mohammed al-Mahri supports the shift. “There’s no basis within Islam for a Saturday rest day but there isn’t anything that prevents it either. All of the days of the week are Allah’s days,” he said.

Over the past years, numerous Moslem countries have named Saturday an official rest day in deference to world business practices.

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Circumcision Humor

May 31, 2007 by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Life, Pop Culture 

I’m not much for humor about matters private but heck, Dennis Wolfberg is kind of funny in an odd sorta way and there are parts of his shtick that click.

Check it out…(thanks Raanana Ramblings)

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Mr. Cab Driver

May 31, 2007 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Crime, Life 

You’re downtown shopping and it’s time to go home. So you hail a cab and load your Macy’s & Bloomies purchases into the trunk (boot). You settle into the backseat and tell the cabbie your destination then sit back and enjoy the ride.

Upon arrival you pay, get out and Mr. Driver pops the trunk. But instead of waiting for you to retrieve your purchases, he speeds off into the distance taking your loot with.

Pretty swift, eh? That’s what one cabbie has been getting up to in Tel Aviv. That is, until one of his fares positively id’d him at police headquarters and a search of his apartment turned up groceries, purses, checkbooks, credit cards, wallets, mobile phones and so on.

“The case that really got to me was on Shavuot eve; an older woman was sobbing, telling me how she had bought hundreds of shekels worth of groceries for the holiday but the driver stole everything and she had nothing to prepare for her guests,” Tel Aviv neighborhood police commander Shimon Lavie told Hebrew press.

Police planted undercover detectives at several of the cabbie’s known pick-up points but it was a 60-year-old passenger that brought the thief to his demise. The woman hailed Mr. Thief at the Carmel Market and was robbed.

A few days later she hailed a cabbie again at the same spot and when she got into the cab immediately recognized the driver. She wrote down the driver’s ID number and reported him to police who promptly arrested him.

He admitted to the crimes…Sheesh

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Another British Boycott (ho hum)

May 31, 2007 by · 3 Comments
Filed under: A New Reality, Blogging, Politics 

Britain’s University and College Union (UCU) is boycotting Israel’s academia - that means they won’t lecture here or exchange information with Israeli researchers or provide funding to academic institutions. That is, until Israel pulls out of the West Bank. The vote went down yesterday.

As can be surmised, bloggers, academics and journalists are having their say in the matter. It’s not the first Israel boycott coming from “across the pond” and with anti-Israel sentiment on the rise there, things look to be headed in a similar direction in the foreseeable future.

From the blogosphere, Jewlicious advises: Get on with it & ignore “them”. Develop alternate means of support and exchange.

No big deal. Seriously. Everybody stop with the anguish and self-searching. Israel should remember that they’re at war and that this boycott is hypocrisy at its deepest. Singling out Israeli academics is shameful and nothing more. The shame is the union’s, and frankly, this vote is not surprising considering where British (and some American) academia has taken us regarding the Middle East in the past couple of decades.

Oleh Girl’s Yael, an academic herself, suggests British Jews re-think their choice of domicile.
I’m not going to suggest that British Jews take a look about the country they are living in and consider living elsewhere because they will make their own decisions about whether or not living in a country in the journalists union, the academics’ union, the architects, and most likely coming soon the medical physicians (yes they are due to vote on boycotting us next month) and main labourers union (due to vote on boycotting us in June) are behaving in such a fashion, coupled with the fact that last year the number of anti-Semitic attacks in England rose alarmingly by over 40% — the steepest rise in Europe — to its highest level ever, is what they want to do. I sure as hell wouldn’t do it but hey.

Bar Ilan Professor Dr. Jonathan Rynhold calls the boycott a hypocritical witch hunt and warns of linking academia and politics.

“This isn’t anti-Semitism, but it’s prejudice, according to which the Palestinians and other nations have the right for self-determination, while the Jews don’t.

“It’s clear to everyone that Israel is not one of the most problematic countries in terms of human rights violations, such as China, Saudi Arabia and even the United States and Britain, which operate in Iraq and whose behavior is much more problematic. And still, it is Israel that is being threatened with this boycott.”

Clearly the issue is far from “ho hum”.

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Pants Down

May 30, 2007 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Crime, Life, Politics 

The fact that Israel Undercover agents caught terror leader/mastermind Khaled Shawish after 7 years of searching is news. Good news and a score for the Israeli team.

But that’s not even the best part of the story. The circumstances involved in Shawish’s capture are golden.

According to Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily, Mr. Mastermind was in the middle of enjoying extra-curricular activities in the backseat of his jeep with, er, um, a woman other than his wife, when Israeli agents surrounded the vehicle.

But wait. There’s more.

The jeep was parked a few hundred feet from the grave site of noneotherthan Yasser Arafat. Symbolic? I think so.

Dude! What’s up with graveyard groping? GROSS! And what are you, like sixteen? Get a hotel room!

Oh well. Too late. So sorry.

Thanks, israelity bites for the lead.

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