Foto Friday #20
Photography is an art form with shifting perspectives. The lens is the transmitter for multiple forms and ranges of complexity and viewpoints. In today’s digital age, photos provide instantaneous art gratification. Immediate, tiny morsels of art form at the fingertips of the masses.
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Beach…My Mom’s Recipes and More
Palestinian Culture Festival, Jaffa…..OCCUPIED
Sudanese Refugees….fugitive peace
No Mikva Baths
A homeless person who broke into a mikva ( Jewish ritual bathhouse) for a dunk was sentenced to 60 days in prison, according to Hebrew daily Yediot.
The homeless man has a history: his criminal record includes dozens of violent outbursts and the sentencing judge said although breaking into the bathhouse wasn’t a critical violation, the nature of the act presents a threat to society.
After the ruling was handed down, the public defender representing the homeless man appealed to district court and was denied. From there it was straight to the top – an appeal to supreme or “high” court.
“The State is sending a homeless person to prison for merely attempting to maintain some semblance of humanness,” said Dr. Yoav Sapir, assistant public defender.
Cleanliness is one thing; but busting in on people in their.. uh…skin is another. That’s a sorta crucial issue, if you know what I mean.
Chhhheck it Out
Newcomer alert: Gideon Lichfield covers matters Palestinian and Israeli for The Economist and he recently decided to get his own blog up and running.
The result is fugitive peace.
Gideon has been based in Jerusalem since 2005 and before that was in Moscow and Mexico City. His blog is his own material i.e. not associated with his Economist pennings. As Lichfield puts it:
“It’s a mixture of analysis and anecdote:..the backstory..commentary on the rumours doing the rounds, who’s spinning them and how the media plays them; tales of daily life; and the jokes that people tell each other in their blackest moments, because I’ve long thought that in our struggle to report this conflict without accusations of bias, we journalists too often miss out the wicked sense of humour with which Israelis and Palestinians alike can face their tragedies.”
A sample:
Avishai Pinchas, the hero of this week’s story, brought some 50 Sudanese refugees to stay in a series of huts in his back yard. Why does he have a series of huts in his back yard? Because Avishai, who seems at first to be just what you would expect of a third-generation Israeli Jew from a Yemenite family – practical, unassuming, right-of-centre – is actually a messianic Jew (meaning that he believes Jesus was the son of God but not in all the subsequent paraphernalia of Christianity, though the details of messianic Jewish belief vary considerably). His wife, Yolanda, was raised a Protestant in Holland. The huts are for other messianic Jews who come to the kibbutz for retreats, to meditate surrounded by the harsh beauty of the desert.
WELCOME!
Who’s Sniping?
Yesterday’s Hebrew daily Yediot carried a front page story about Israelis getting “sniped” in L.A.
The deets: Within the past half year, half a dozen Israelis have gotten quite a shock when answering the doorbell: an “unknown guest” beckons the person outside, verifies the person’s identity and then repeatedly shoots him in the legs. 
What does the LAPD think? That all of the victims are somehow tied to the underworld and that this is a private way of settling grievances sorta thing.
LAPD spokesperson Karen Smith told Yediot’s reporter that from the evidence they’ve gathered so far, police are linking the shootings to goings-on within Israel’s organized crime scene.
Didn’t these people learning anything about opening the door to strangers? Sheesh. Stay indoors. It’s hot outside.
Shhh… Be quiet…. or you might get fined
If you plan on doing any yardwork or hiring a gardener in Jerusalem, make sure no one is working between 2 and 4 PM. Apparently, that is mandatory nap time, according to this Ha’aretz video. (Now, I don’t know about you, but between 2 and 4, I’m at work. Think I can negotiate nap time into my work contract?) Apparently, a team of Jerusalem police officers are tasked to patrol Jerusalem and fine anyone making a bit of noise during these “enforced quiet hours.” Now, I don’t know about you but it seems like an extraordinary waste of my tax dollars (which I would like back … so I can pay …. wait … my TV tax….). According to this report, Israelis are paying more and more taxes and work for the government longer than for themselves. Probably because we’re paying for ridiculous things like quiet patrols (and TV taxes, but that’s a story for another time)! What is this? 1984?
Memo to cops: How about fighting crime instead? Several of my friends have recently been burglarized in the past few weeks … during quiet hours when they (like most people should be) are at work. But, really, if you are going to enforce quiet hours, how about tell the construction workers outside my windows to start working at a more reasonable hour – like, at least, 7AM!
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