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| Student: “I Shot The Terrorist Twice In The Head” (didn't see any balls to target...) |
| 2008-03-07 |
| Yitzhak Dadon, a student at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, described the events of a terrorist shooting attack at the school Thursday evening, which left eight dead and nine others wounded, saying he was armed with a rifle and waited on the roof of a nearby building. “He came out of the library spraying automatic fire … the terrorist came to the entrance and I shot him twice in the head, he said.” The director of the yeshiva Rabbi David Simchon vowed Thursday that the evening’s terror attack would not undermine his or his students’ religious faith. “No terrorist will succeed in stopping our faith, our values, the justice of our cause or what we teach her at the yeshiva,” he said. “I think the terrorists knew that this was Rosh Hodesh Adar, which is a [time of] great joy. I don’t know if they directed themselves toward our celebration.” They sure did. Now that's worth two shots to the head any day On the scene update of earlier story…as Arizona considers letting students bring guns to school… I’m glad that in this day and age, people are getting more comfortable with meeting the mature responsibility of righteous killing. That 70’s liberal utopia, earth is a kiddie playground shit, is over. Are you ready to protect your family in the event of a home invasion? Are you really? Or are you relying on your rhetorical skills to talk any psychopathic out of anything. |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #8 Oh, and apologies -- Adar has the holiday of Purim, which celebrates the story from the Book of Esther. The children wear costumes and the grown-ups get drunk. A fun little holiday. /not because it's important, but at least it should be correct. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-07 23:22 |
| #7 Oh, and apologies -- Adar has the holiday of Purim, which celebrates the story from the Book of Esther. The children wear costumes and the grown-ups get drunk. A fun little holiday. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-07 23:17 |
| #6 I seem to have gone from trailing wife to t and back again, somehow. Sorry 'bout that. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-07 20:46 |
| #5 Another story about an armed responsible citizen stopping a mass killing? Hmmm.. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-03-07 18:49 |
| #4 I don't think so, t. Violence has no place in religious studies. Ask anybody! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-03-07 16:42 |
| #3 About the article itself. Yesterday it was reported that it was an off-duty Israeli soldier who lived down the street who killed the bad guy. Perhaps the religious community should require their yeshiva students to take military training and do military service like the rest of the country? |
| Posted by: t 2008-03-07 16:33 |
| #2 Rosh Hodesh: the first day of the month, a minor celebration Adar: the first (as I recall) month of spring, in which Passover occurs. Easter is early this year because last year was a leap year in the Jewish calendar, which means we had an extra month in winter (essentially a second February). Long, long ago, when the Jews were primarily an agricultural people, the Jewish year began in Adar not, as it does now, in the fall (approx Sept/Oct). |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-07 16:31 |
| #1 A second, bonus shot, at no extra charge. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-03-07 16:29 |