Woof

i love dogs. i have never been seriously afraid of a dog in my life, excepting the case of my former crazy recluse neighbor who raised big german shepherds. he would go out with like 5 at a time. ooohhh! i also like cats, squirells, aardvarks, horses etc. i do not like rats or pigeons. i do not like michael vick. i would like to set all 10 of this neighbors' dogs on his enormous hairy calves. let's see you dodge that offence, mike!

Israeli Military Disobedience

In Israel, practically everybody is in the military, has been in the military, or will be in the military. Whenever I hear that an israeli soldier had something bad occur to him , I don't think: Hey he knew the risks etc., rather I think "Oy, a jewish boy was hurt." This is because Israelis don't have a choice whether to be in the military or not. The draft is compulsory. If there is a war in the mid east, and it involves Israel, it is because they were directly threatened by some vicious arab country and they had to fight for survival. All these soldiers are heroes. I do not think of them as soldiers so much as mainstream israelis who put their lives on the line for everone else. Which leads me to this posts' question-Is the disobedience justified? Are these soldiers wrong in refusing to evict jews from Hebron? Or are they entirely within their rights as israeli citizens and jews to protest the governments' expulsion of their fellow jews? Here's a quote from ARIEL SHARON I saw posted on Arutz Sheva-
“In contrast to the days of exile, it is not only the right, but the obligation of every Jew, in a Jewish democratic state, to stand up and warn his government, through passive resistance, of the disaster that it is bringing upon all of us. What Jews could not do in Germany and Poland before their extermination, they must do in their own country. They have to rise en masse and resist.”
-Wow.

First Post

I have never blogged before-but I have read other jewish blogs and enjoyed them. Ahem. First post.....Idea..........yah, here we go. First I'd like to comment about jewish blogs. Many are not very serious, but focus on the author's fascinating life. Others proclaim themselves as less than serious, and joke about jewish life in general. Some say ooooooh I'm super-serious and my opinion has weight. There are nasty blogs that attack individuals/judaism with happy abandon. There are self deprecating blogs that mock the blogger himself. There are blogs that attack this type of judaism or that, blogs that rant and rave. Most are full of crap. My blog will be a common sense jewish blog. (Surprise!) In it I will attempt in a humble kind of way to address serious and less than serious issues with the panache and vision befitting my humble self and my humble opinion. Humble, humble......mumble. I will try to keep it humorous yet pithy. For those of you who don't know what pithy means, I think it means to the point. Scoring 99 on my 6 hour Lit. Regents only gets me so far. All this leads me to my first post....