Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox and signs.

It seems that the New Israel Fund has again gone overboard on its
not so secret battle against Orthodox Judaism. The solution to the
Jerusalem's ultra orthodox's defacing of signs showing women is to catch the perpetrators and charge them for defacing property or mischief. The New Israel Funds' solution of promoting signs showing women in all stages of nudity is neither reasonable nor a proper Jewish solution.

Saudi's are improving

Ah yes the Saudis are getting soft. First they allow women to vote in 4 years and now they have given a woman only ten lashes for driving. Women's lib and our progressive thinkers should certainly congratulate the Saudis on making some steps towards modernization. Perhaps a Noble Peace Prize would be appropriate. Do you think that they gave her ten eye lashes so she could see better while driving?

Saudis and women

Tasha Kheiriddin in today's National Post credits Saudi Arabia for giving women a municipal vote in 2015. Hello? That is 4 years from now, giving the Saudis lots of time to change their minds. It is such a small step. It is like applauding an alcoholic for saying he will start drinking at 8:00 a.m. instead of at 7:00 a.m. in four years. A real step forward is taking a positive step now. The Saudis have done nothing except look for sympathy. Let's not applaud them for it. Let's continue to tell them that their moral standards and customs are inferior to ours - that's right, much of their morals and culture is inferior to that of the "infidels".

Letter to National Post Sept 17th 2009

1. Stopping Violence Against Women
Instead of Irwin Cotler’s pompous list of things to be done to protect women, the simple inclusion of women’s rights as part of human rights and the continuous publishing of anti-women laws and activities, in the same way that Israel’s activities are continually publicized, would be effective. For once let political correctness and charges of Islamophobia and racism be avoided and any group, whether white or black, Christian or Muslim be targeted as offenders against both human rights and women’s rights.

Families eating together.
Father de Souza is right about the blessings from a family sitting down to supper together. However instead of just extolling its virtues, why doesn’t Father de Souza simply point to the Jewish tradition of having family Friday night dinners together and suggest that Christians simply steal Jewish tradition and absorb it into Christianity? Wouldn’t it be good if religions could simply say that a tradition in another religion is excellent and decide to institute it as part of their own tradition? Surely such honesty and openness would be good for everyone.

3 It takes one to know one.

Carter has shown his anti-semitism by his unrelenting and extremely unrealistically and overblown criticisms of Israel. It indicates he is a bigot and a racist. Now he is accusing all Americans who disagree with Obama as being racists and bigots. It takes one to know one.