YOM KIPPER: RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE OR FAITH IN THE DIVINE LAW OF NATURE?

1. Must Watch: Jews, Movies and the "American Dream"

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/must-watch-jews-movies-and-the-american-dream.html

2. Yom Kippur, War and the Power Of Deterrence

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/yom-kippur-war-and-the-power-of-deterrence.html

By Gilad Atzmon   >>Today is Yom Kippur and the 40^th anniversary of the 1973 Arab–Israeli (Yom Kippur) War. That war caught Israel totally on the hop. In the first days of the conflict, both the IDF and the IAF were defeated and humiliated. Moshe Dayan, the legendary Israeli defence minister, contemplated out loud the ‘destruction of the 3^rd Temple’ and, according to different intelligence sources, Israel was close to using its ‘Samson option’ - a nuclear strike against Egypt.

Interestingly, neither the Egyptians nor the Syrians had any plans to ‘throw the Jews to the sea.’ In fact, their military objectives were rather limited – liberating land occupied by Israel in 1967.  The Egyptians attempted to secure a narrow bridge-head over the Suez Canal and the Syrians hoped to free the Golan Heights or at least part of it.

But driven by pre-Traumatic Stress (Pre-TSD), Israeli army generals and the government managed to recast this joint Arab operation as nothing less than an emerging Shoa. Consequently, at least for the first days of the war, they panicked and unnecessarily and critically exhausted Israeli military assets and force. 
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Jewish chicken-slaughtering operations ordered to shut down

By Martha Groves and Matt Stevens, September 13, 2013, 1:18 p.m.

 

The California Department of Food and Agriculture said Friday that it has ordered the shutdown of two Pico-Robertson operations that were participating in a traditional Orthodox Jewish ritual that involves the slaughtering of chickens.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-jewish-chicken-slaughtering-operations-ordered-to-shut-down-20130913,0,7481456.story