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Ultra-Orthodox Jews, angry at the opening of a parking lot on the Jewish sabbath, clashed with police separating them from secular Jerusalem residents who held a protest on Saturday in support of the move.
Police moved in to separate the demonstrators after ultra-Orthodox Jews started hurling stones and vegetables. A police spokesman said 24 people were arrested and four policemen suffered minor injuries.
Tensions have been brewing in the city over plans by Jerusalem’s Israeli mayor, Nir Barkat, to reopen a parking lot on Saturday, a move that could draw more traffic into the city on the Jewish sabbath…
Tensions reached a new peak on Friday when thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews walked through a main street in the city in protest at Barkat’s decision. Some scuffled with journalists and photographers covering the march…
Barkat became mayor in November after beating ultra-Orthodox Uri Lupolianski. He ran on a platform of reversing an exodus of secular young Jews who leave to cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa in search of better job opportunities.
The intolerance of fundamentalist religions confounds me. When push comes to shove, they are as violent, cruel and egregious as any other leftover cave-dweller.
Re: Alfred1:“How can anyone be against killing tens of millions of babies before they are born!”
If I had the power, I would have you raped by a backwoods hillbilly with an IQ of 43, and you would get preggers with siamese triplets.
Is that guy running in the picture protecting his head with a stack of bibles?
i dont have a great knowledge of judaism, but wouldnt the sabbath also not allow them from prosting on that day?
21,
WHY would you force more AlfredENewmans on the rest of us? WHY?
protesting*
Re#24, Named: “WHY would you force more AlfredENewmans on the rest of us? WHY?”
…. no problemo Named, Alfred would drive his Hummer to Canada within a week (after he stopped crying), get an abortion, shoot all the witnesses in self defense, sleep with a 12 year old hooker and then wake up laughing hysterically that God would give him such a saucy dream.
Orthodox Jews can’t work on Saturdays, but they can riot?
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Can’t you keep him in the US? Say… Flint where he will imagine that he’ll buy up depressed property for a profit?
“Uri Lupolianski. He ran on a platform of reversing an exodus of secular young Jews who leave to cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa in search of better job opportunities.”
Jews leaving the Holy Land for a better life elsewhere. So when they finally get Israel exactly the way they what it (Arab free), then they’re just as likely to abandon it, for greener pastures. Have you see the place? The Holy Lands aren’t exactly lush. I think many are living there, just because someone said they couldn’t.
#7 Ramen!
#22 I think it’s a round fuzzy hat called a “Shtreimel”. Things are darn expensive apparently.
As someone who grew up an orthodox Jew I feel the need to set the record straight. These people are hypocrites. This is not the norm, they are just crazy extremist who represent no one but themselves. This has been going on for a long time and is not new news. Right now in my life I think organized religion is just crap. However there are plenty or respectable intelligent people who have faith and I have nothing against them. These people are simply wackadoos and should be seen as just that and not as a representation of “orthodox” or “ultraorthodox” religious Jews.
Now exactly what makes them different from muslims? They boths seem wacko.