Rabbi Obvious
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Rabbi Obvious
@Rabbi_Obvious
Son of two, husband of one, and father of seven. "And all the goyim say I'm pretty fly—for a rabbi."


בנימה אישית: בן הזוג שלי, קצין במילואים שחזר אתמול מהר הרצל מאזכרות של 6 חברים שלו שנפלו בלבנון, כולם אגב היו דתיים. ניהלנו שיחה נעימה עם שני בני 18 שדפקו לנו על הדלת ושאלנו אותם למה הם לא מתגייסים. לכל מי שכתב לי שביזיתי אותם - על דבר אחד אנחנו מסכימים. לא להתגייס לצבא בתקופה כמו זו - זה בהחלט דבר להתבייש בו.




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זאת כבר חסידות גור והרגישות המיוחדת שלה ליום הזיכרון: אירוע התרמה חגיגי שנערך אתמול על ידי החסידות באולם מפואר בנס ציונה ופוזר על ידי המשטרה. על פי הדיווחים, בניסיון למנוע את הפיזור, טענו המארגנים כי מדובר בטקס יום הזיכרון לחללי צה״ל.

I know a number of British people who lived 1 to 2 years in Italy and then came back. The constant is that they have young children. Whatever they tell you, if you ask them about the Italian school system, they will eventually admit that it was, if not the main one, one of the critical items for them. Italian primary school is much harder than the British one. An awful lot of Italian parents cope with that by literally abandoning their children to their own devices. Most take a more proactive stance, so they either start tutoring their children themselves (a couple of hours a day per child starting in year 1) or pay for tutors to do it in their stead. In primary school, British kids have homework once per week. Italian kids have homework once per day, doubled over the weekend. If you visit Italian homes in the afternoon and they have children, it is pretty standard to see the kids sitting at the main table with books and notebooks spread all around, with a parent or a tutor sitting with them for the whole session. Also, the amount of books they have to carry to school every day is borderline unbelievable. You would think they are training them to carry legionary backpacks. For people accustomed to the gentle British primary schooling, the Italian system feels borderline insane. Note also that it has massively eased up: in my childhood, we had to memorise a long poem every weekend (which back then meant Sunday, as Saturday was school day). h/t @GroovySciFi


Rahm Emanuel, on Israel: "No more US military aid. You're a country like all other allies of ours, Japan, South Korea, the Brits, the Germans. You're going to pay full price. You can buy what you want, but you have to abide by the laws." This is Obama's chief of staff. He helped shape the last MOU. He signed off on Iron Dome funding. The position that US aid to Israel should end is now inside the Democratic establishment mainstream.








@Agamemnonuwa This isn't made up you goon. It's literally from Tom Segev's biography of Ben-Gurion.

critical bird strike safety test on a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II cockpit canopy. Test Purpose: Engineers simulate a bird strike by firing a projectile, often a chicken, from a pneumatic cannon nicknamed the "chicken gun". Speed: The projectile is launched at speeds exceeding 500 km/h to replicate actual high-speed flight conditions. Objective: This test ensures the canopy can absorb immense kinetic energy without shattering, protecting the pilot. Materials: The canopy is constructed from layered polycarbonate and reinforced composites designed for extreme resilience.


Hot take: if someone is too mentally incompetent to stand trial for violent crimes, they are also incompetent of being reintegrated into society.


Crazed homeless man accused of slaughtering Iryna Zarutska on train found incompetent to stand trial trib.al/GsJMZC8





