[AnAmericanAbroad]

There must be something in the water in this part of the world. Wackiness isn't confined to parts east of Israel, apparently.

[KantianBurke]

“The animal is said to have escaped before the sentence was carried out. One of the judges at the court in the city’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighbourhood had reportedly asked local children to carry out the sentence.”

Disgusting.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[Truth29]

Are they trying to think like Muslims? Maybe those who approved this sentence should be stoned to death instead.

[Slings and Arrows]

I’d ask some of our Israeli freepers before taking this story at face value. The BBC is not known for journalistic objectivity in matters concerning Israel.

[cunning_fish]

It might be a hoax. It sounds too stupid to be true.

[Perdogg]

No wonder they are fighting in the middle east, it's the fasting - low blood sugar. ;)

[LibLieSlayer]

I am disgusted by this... I would imagine that HE is also.

LLS

[Apercu]

I can understand lawyers being reincarnated as rats or weasels - sorry for the redundancy - but dogs? No way.

[Bearshouse]

If there is any truth to this story, remember that David Koresh and Jim Jones considered themselves Christians even though their narcissistic control bore little evidence of it.

[rmlew]

From original Article:
"The head of the court, Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, denied that the judges had called for the dog's stoning. But one of the court's managers confirmed the report to Yedioth Ahronoth. " http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4082843,00.html

In other words, liberal press made up story or refuses to source it
Worse, Arabist BBC takes alleged action of anti-Zionist Haredim to smear Israel.
Ulta-Orthodox Jews don't like dogs. But stoning a dog is illegal in Israel.

[SharpRightTurn]

According to the article in ynet news.com, an unnamed court manager “confirmed the report to Yedioth Ahronoth”.

The report says:

“It was ordered by the rabbis because of the grief he had caused the court,” he said. “They didn’t issue an official ruling, but ordered the children outside to throw stones at him in order to drive him away. They didn’t think of it as cruelty to animals, but as an appropriate way to ‘get back at’ the spirit which entered the poor dog.”

“Jerusalem City Council Member and social activist Rachel Azaria sent an urgent letter to the attorney general, calling on him to “deal with the criminals”. The Let the Animals Live organization filed a complaint with the police against Rabbi Levin.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4082843,00.html

The article also said dogs are “considered an impure animal by Halacha”.

[dervish]

This is a BBC blood libel.

Israel has vigorous animal protection laws.

Dogs are not considered impure in Judaism. In Hebrew they are called Kelev which translates to -— All Heart.

The BBC just hates the “ultra orthodox.”

[Slings and Arrows]

Well well well.

http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2011/06/maariv-apologizes-about-misleading.html

Waiting for the BBC to apologize...

*crickets*

[Eleutheria5]

This sounds like rubbish. A rabbinical court, when it had jurisdiction over capital crimes, would deliberate in full session (23 judges) on the fate of an animal, true. But only for capital offenses delineated in the Torah, such as a dangerous animal that had injured other animals or people repeatedly, and had recently gone so far as to kill someone, or an animal that had sexual relations with a woman. But alleged reincarnations are not something over which a rabbinical court would even have jurisdiction.

[Gator113]

I’m not buying this one bit. It looks like Anti-Semitic Propaganda to me.

Besides, even the dumbest of dogs would not allow himself to be taken over by a lawyer. ;>) (my apologies to the good and honest lawyers out there, both of them)

I don’t know where to go with this, but it starts out: A Jew, a lawyer and a dog walk into a bar and the dog says.....

[Ebenezer]

I see nothing on Snopes.com or The Jerusalem Post online to corroborate (or debunk) this story.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“dog it feared was the reincarnation”

I’d call BS. Reincarnation? Judaism?