flying rabbis save israel

[dub]

JERUSALEM — A planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish mystics held an airborne prayer meeting in the belief that it could help check the spread of swine flu in Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Yediot Ahronot daily said a plane with 50 people on board circled over Israel on Monday, with the passengers chanting prayers and sounding the ritual ram's horn.

The newspaper report carried a photo showing bearded and black-clad Orthodox Jewish men standing on the steps of an aircraft of Israeli short-haul airline Arkia. Airline officials could not be reached for comment.

"The purpose of the flight was to stop the (swine flu) epidemic so that people will not keeping dying from it," Rabbi Yitzhak Basri, one of the participants, told the newspaper.

this is the second interesting story i've read about israel and the pig flu

[dub]

i think it's great to see them mixing technology and the power of praying to ward off this unkosher disease.

video

[dub]

oh yeah. the other story.

Mexico complains to Israel about Litzman's new name for swine flu

Mexico on Tuesday launched an official complaint to Israel regarding Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman's suggestion to call swine flu "Mexican flu" in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork.

Mexico's Ambassador to Israel Frederico Salas complained to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that the name Mexican influenza was bothersome and worrying.

The Foreign Ministry stressed that Israel had no intention of changing the name of the virus and emphasized the friendly ties between Israel and Mexico.

During a press conference Monday, Litzman said the reference to pigs was offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu."

[stranger little]

why don't we call it H1N1 the actual term for it

or if oyur feeling a little cheeky

'hell of a flu'

hot and nauseous'

'the virus that keeps on truckin'

any other suggestions?

[dub]

Israel suffers 13th swine flu death

August 24, 2009

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Israeli woman became the country's 13th swine flu fatality.

sounds like there needs to be another call to the flying rabbis.

[Leonard]

this is the second interesting story i've read about israel and the pig flu

Majority of Israelis do not care about these crazy rabbis.

To me it looks like you're trying to insult Jews and Israelis by posting this thread.