Figured I'd check in. Hope my three day absence didn't worry any of you too much, and that you were able to cope. If you couldn't, I would understand that too. The long weekend is always dominated by the kinderlakh, rendering bloggery impossible.
Just a brief note on Eretz Yisruel: in the early 1990s, Rabin & Peres thought it would be a great idea to provide tens of thousands of rifles to Arafat & Co, assuming the latter would take care of Hamas, doing the dirty work for the Jews. But Arafat turned the weapons on Jews. In a new spin on Groundhog's day, circa 2006, Olmert & Co. supplied tens of thousands of rifles to Abu Maazen (Abbas) & Co, assuming the latter would use them on Hamas. As it turns out, the moderate Abbas, the holocaust-denying Abbas, delivered a speech to his minions in which he implores them to aim their guns against 'the occupation' and not each other. Anyway...
It's imperative that you be informed that 402 years ago today (or the year 1605, lest your life become needlessly complicated) In the life of the Jews was the day that the Ghetto in Verona, Italy was officially established. Until then, Jews lived where they pleased on the peninsula. Oddly, it seems they didn't mind too much; the forced resettlement seems to have afforded them feelings of security and solidarity. It was exactly five years earlier that they dedicated a new synagogue in the ghetto (It was the first day of Shvat), a day that was ordained a special holiday, featuring Purim-like festive processions and celebratory hymns. This curious day was celebrated in this manner until the French Revolution - about two centuries.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment