"About 50 rabbis and Jewish mystics have flown over Israel for an airborne prayer meeting in the belief it may stop the spread of swine flu... One of the rabbis says he is certain the danger to Israel has now passed because of the prayer flight." Okay! Insert your own treyf joke here.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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I'll never understand El Al's passenger screening process.
An observant Jew getting swine flu... that must be awkward.
Flying Dutchmen, flying nuns, flying rabbis-why not?
In some delicious irony, Sir Francis Bacon anticipated this in a section of his Novum Organum known as Idol of the Tribe.
Er, 'cause I don't know any treuf jokes. Or what this is, exactly... hey, how about one of those IT'S NOT SCIENCE! tags?