How embarrassing. Everybody know you have to watch out for those Jewish suicide bombers.
Wonder what that means...
So it was only prudent.
How embarrassing. Everybody know you have to watch out for those Jewish suicide bombers.
For those who don't know what the Tefillin is, it is a Jewish prayer ritual object.
If he was ultra-orthodox and they were female and he was in the midst of his prayers, he may not have been the best candidate for an interview. But as somebody said on another post, anybody who flies out of LaGuardia should know from phylacteries...
I know SOMEWHAT what they are, but I live in a heavily Jewish neighborhood. Not sure if I have ever seen them in real-life though. I could see how people would not know about them.
I can see how somebody, especially a younger flight attendant, might not know what that is but it seems odd that nobody else on the plane could help to explain it to them. I’m not even Jewish and I know what it is.
An observant Jew doing morning prayers is just not a risk to the airplane.
Hysteria and panic do not protect people, and that’s what this was. Leather straps and leather boxes are not fuses and little bombs. Major drop out of common sense in this case.
Deuteronomy 11:18:
"You shall place these words of Mine upon your heart and upon your soul; you shall bind them for a sign upon your arm and let them be an ornament between your eyes."
11:19:
"You shall teach them to your children to discuss them, while you sit in your home, while you walk on the way, when you retire and when you aries.
11:20:
"And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates."