Israel won the 2018 Eurovision song contest. Great! This means that next year (2019) – the contest is due to take place in the Holy Land. It’s a big opportunity for income and public relations. For many it’s also a good opportunity to strengthen the status of Jerusalem, or at least its sectors that are not in any international dispute.<\/p>\n
Alas, Jerusalem is never as easy as ABC… The Jewish Orthodoxy has started (as usual) a big cry, forbidding any activities in the sacred city during the Sabbath. It was Miri Regev, the current Minister of Culture and Sport, who found a creative solution (or rather phrased things in a creative way): “The activities during the Sabbath will only be the rehearsals, not the actual work.”<\/p>\n
So, it seems we have been blessed with a new female religious authority… or haven’t we? Just a few days later, and there’s a new religious crisis. Now it’s in Tel Aviv. Apparently an essential bridge is going to be built over the Ayalon Freeway. When is the right time to build a bridge? You guessed right – during the Sabbath, when less traffic jams irritate the working class.<\/p>\n
You also guessed right the next chapter: The Jewish Orthodoxy has started (as usual) a big cry, forbidding any activities in the busy city during the Sabbath. Now it’s me rather than Mrs. Regev, suggesting a solution: Let them only rehearse<\/strong> building the bridge during the Sabbath!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israel won the 2018 Eurovision song contest. Great! This means that next year (2019) – the contest is due to take place in the Holy Land. It’s a big opportunity for income and public relations. For many it’s also a good opportunity to strengthen the status of Jerusalem, or at least its sectors that are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,49,37,27,52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argument-and-preaching","category-church-and-state","category-holiday","category-judaism","category-politics","category-religious-coercion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}