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1. I figured out how to do a favicon but now you can’t even really see it. Pfffft.
2. Norm Roulet writes about what I think is a pretty scary experience. It reminds me of a situation when I was in Italy and was with a friend from Rome and we were sitting at a Wendy’s waiting for a train and took a couple of pictures with some Arab-speaking men. When they realized we had the pictures, they demanded we give them the film. Just two weeks beforehand had been the Athens plane hijacking (which happened two days before I left Israel after having been there for a year, a year during which there had been absolutely no such incidents, I might add) and about three months before the Achille Lauro. It was a tense time in Europe and we didn’t hesitate to hand it over. But it was a weird exchange.
Anyway, Norm, okay – I was thinking of Melissa Etheridge’s album title, Brave and Crazy as I read what you wrote, except I couldn’t remember that it was “crazy” and kept thinking “stupid” except I’ve met you so, well, we know you are not a stupid person. How about crazy? 
Good luck in any case.
3. Okay. Yeah. Umm, I’d be angry too.
4. Okay – I need to reprint most of this item:
An Israeli Arab is the father of 67 children, a national record.
Shehade Abu Arad has been recognized by the Interior Ministry as Israel’s top breeder after he registered 67 children that he had with his eight wives, Yediot Achronot reported Monday.
Abu Arad, 58, lives in the central Israeli village of Burgata. The runner-up in the reproduction ranking is another Israeli Arab who has 39 children from four wives, according to Yediot.
Give that man a cigar, or a peace pipe. Or, diapers.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:26 pm October 8th, 2007 in Remains of the Day
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Shalom Jill,
No cigars.
Give those eight women (and all their sisters) a high-class education and access to free birth control.
B’shalom,
Jeff
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Well, now, Jeff – I cautioned someone a while ago about whether women really want to be treated like Queens. So I’d say to you, do those women want birth control or the education? I’m not saying that we shouldn’t educate about the benefits and value of either one and hope to influence their choices, BUT…I wouldn’t automatically assume that they want either one. Know what I mean?
To hell with cigars, give that man a vasectomy!
LOL – good one. I have no CLUE as to what religions say about that – do you?
Shalom Jill,
What we do know from studies nearly piled as high as those describing Global Warming is that the more educated a woman is the fewer children she will have, the later in life she will have her first child and how much more likely she is to use birth control.
An interesting side tale. I have a relative who works in a medical practice that caters to the Orthodox community. More than 15 years ago she noted how the more educated the women who came to the practice were, the more likely they were to ask for a note to their rebbe saying that birth control was prescribed for health reasons.
Granted, the data is anecdotal and restricted to a single source, but I still think it is worth considering.
Barefoot and pregnant is more than just a stereotype.
B’shalom,
Jeff
Well, I know about those studies – I trust the findings and I know the findings have been replicated over and over.
But still, culturally? I just don’t know. And I’m not into forcing it on someone. I just think about how impervious people can be to change.
Shalom Jill,
Gee, do you think we’re forcing people when we educate them to know that drinking unclean water is a bad idea?
B’shalom,
Jeff
p.s. yes, i’m being a nudge.
now now Jeff – have you been following the stories of the communities that are voting or somehow finagling it so that they don’t have fluoride in their water?!