Sunday, October 28, 2007

Only in Israel!

Wife of Rabin's killer delivers baby boy | Jerusalem Post: "Larissa Trimbobler, wife of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's murderer, Yigal Amir, gave birth to a baby boy at Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon. Larissa Trimbobler arrives at Ayalon prison to visit Yigal Amir. Photo: AP [file] RELATED * Dealing with an assassin's baby * Remembering Rabin * How should the press cover the 'Free Yigal Amir' campaign? The baby's brit mila (circumcision) will take place on November 4, exactly 12 years since his father killed Rabin. The child was in good health, said Shimon Malka, a spokesman for Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem, where the baby was delivered. Police took heightened security precautions at the time of the delivery with security forces stationed around Trimbobler's hospital room under the suspicion that the baby could be attacked. Last week the Prisons Service rejected a request by Amir to attend the brit of his son."

Parochial Schools: "The more I think about it, the more it no longer amuses me. It is symptomatic of a mentality that sees no other people except those exactly like themselves. Perhaps depicting our forefathers in their actual clothes would lead to some uncomfortable questions from children as to why they must dress in black thick winter clothes. I would be interested to know what they learn at these schools or like-minded Yeshivot. Do they learn the Shulchan Aruch, The Zohar, Derech Hashem, Moreh Nevuchim, The Kuzari? All of these books are a mainstay in every place of Torah in the world and all were written by non-Ashkenazim. These places won’t let our children learn in a dignified manner but they will revere the books of our ancestors."

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