Comments on: To Drive or Not to Drive, That Is The Question

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:17:56 +0000

Of course it's not respectful when driving like crazy through a religious neighbourhood during Jom Kippur. But driving in normal speed through Nazareth and even Haifa, should not be such a big problem. As if in the back ol' times the Bedouins would stop herding their cattle during Jom Kippur or other non-Jews would stop doing their businesses during Jom Kippur. Jom Kippur is a day in which you should reflect yourself and not start pointing at others already – even if that person is bothering you by noise.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:14:03 +0000

What if the life of the pregnant woman and/or the unborn child was in danger. You really think that the ambulance still would drive slowly on Jom Kippur?

By: Darren Malone

Darren Malone — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:39:18 +0000

M Ossad Why don't you stick your head back where it belongs,in that dark and moist place from where you just pulled it out. Signed……. Darren Malone A Ridgy Didge Dinky Die True Blue meat pie eating, beer guzzling (VB ofcourse) Saint Kilda supporter,M ossad would you like to make something of it?.

By: Lila

Lila — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:02:15 +0000

Suzanne, would you give a mad party on Good Friday if you live next to deeply observant Protestant neigbours? Or on Corpus Christi when you live among pious Catholics? I hope you wouldn't. Nobody is forced to observe Yom Kippur, and as I said above, in Arab towns people do drive. But why not respect a holy day of a religion other than your own? I wish my Arab colleagues a happy Id el Fitr when it's their holiday, and they bring cookies and other stuff for their holidays. I don't eat in their presence when they have the Ramadan fast. Nobody forces me to do it. It's just a matter of courtesy and making their fast a bit easier.

By: BrianOfLondon

BrianOfLondon — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:16:51 +0000

As I say, its not really forced on any one. You can drive if you're slow and careful about it. The police patrol and one or two cars do venture out. Most normal people would realise that killing or hurting a child is something to be afraid of. From a religious point of view, riding a bike is little different from driving a car. I know one Doctor who has often had to return home from the hospital during Yom Kippur and says the experience of driving is not fun: apart from the funny looks, you just have to be so careful. One of the people we were with early on the evening of Yom Kippur was pregnant and didn't feel well. At midnight she was driven carefully to a hospital. In this case if you can't organise you life such that on one holiday you can stay home (or stay in one place) from sundown to sundown you really need to look better at your organisational skills.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:05:21 +0000

I do understand the whole respecting a holiday for observant jews by other (perhaps secular) jews, but i do not understand why this should be forced upon non-jews (christians, muslims, bahai, others) who are living in Israel as well. Wouldn't we want Jews and other non-muslims to live their own lifes as well and not be enforced to some islamic law in islamic countries as well?

By: Acco Riots and The Phony Right Not to be Offended | Israellycool

Acco Riots and The Phony Right Not to be Offended | Israellycool — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:35:50 +0000

[...] hasn’t had the chance to post much about the Acco riots and the post I wrote yesterday about what happens on Yom Kippur, even in non religious neighborhoods was not meant to be about the riots. I had that post in my mind long before I knew what happened in [...]

By: rashaba

rashaba — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:02:47 +0000

Just let this damn troll starve

By: Lila

Lila — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:18:19 +0000

Besides, nothing makes the world who looked the other way whenever Jews were killed and persecuted feel better than finding an explanation why "the Jews deserved it" or claiming that they "do even worse now". No need for checking the conscience. How convenient and easy. It's one of the most primitive mechanisms of the human mind, dehumanizing and blaming the victim.

By: Shy Guy

Shy Guy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:58:44 +0000

Two birds with one stone.