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First official Jewish tartan unveiled
The Scotsman ^ | 3/29/16

Posted on 03/29/2016 11:58:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

JEWS around the world with a love of all things Scottish will now able to dress in an official kosher tartan.

The distinctive blue and white design was created by Mendel Jacobs, the only Scottish-born Rabbi living north of the border, and has been registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority.

(Excerpt) Read more at scotsman.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: napl
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Mazel tov, and pass the kosher haggis!

1 posted on 03/29/2016 11:58:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows

Please, no jokes about how tight Scots are.


2 posted on 03/29/2016 11:59:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Shameless-but-relevant self-promotion: "Hatikvah" on strings and bagpipes (synthesized).


3 posted on 03/29/2016 12:00:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

It always seemed to me that there are only 3 or 4 tartans. After that, they all look the same.


4 posted on 03/29/2016 12:03:06 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

If he can blow a shofar (ram’s horn), he’s probably VERY good on a bagpipe!


5 posted on 03/29/2016 12:07:14 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Slings and Arrows

That's actually quite beautiful.

6 posted on 03/29/2016 12:07:46 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

I like it.


7 posted on 03/29/2016 12:08:05 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I like it.

Me too.


8 posted on 03/29/2016 12:09:55 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Beautiful.


9 posted on 03/29/2016 12:11:12 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: nickcarraway

How about “No True Scotsman”? LOL


10 posted on 03/29/2016 12:11:29 PM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: baltimorepoet

“If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!”


11 posted on 03/29/2016 12:11:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Slings and Arrows
So what does the Kilt look like?


12 posted on 03/29/2016 12:13:44 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

MacCabbee clan tartan?


13 posted on 03/29/2016 12:15:16 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Like the Israel Gadstan flag.


14 posted on 03/29/2016 12:17:03 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Slings and Arrows

My husband would love this!


15 posted on 03/29/2016 12:18:02 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Zathras
Like the Israel Gadstan flag.

I do too. Came across it back around early 2009 and thought it was pretty cool.

16 posted on 03/29/2016 12:21:34 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: faithhopecharity

Shofar, sho good!


17 posted on 03/29/2016 12:22:52 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: faithhopecharity

hmmmmmm, wonder how Havya Negalya (correct spellinh?) sounds on the Pipes?


18 posted on 03/29/2016 12:25:16 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: nickcarraway

so does a Scotch Jew have to circumcises his bagpipes?


19 posted on 03/29/2016 12:27:21 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: VanShuyten

You just won the internet.

We can all go home now.


20 posted on 03/29/2016 12:29:03 PM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night..And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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