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Israeli wearing tefillin on NZ ferry causes panic
Jerusalem Post ^ | 12-12-10

Posted on 12/12/2010 4:00:34 PM PST by SJackson

An Israeli tourist visiting New Zealand caused a minor panic on a New Zealand ferry on Sunday after the captain reported to police that a passenger was carrying a "suspicious article," NZTV reported.

Some media in New Zealand even reported a hostage situation aboard the ferry, even though the passenger was cooperative with police, according to the report.

The man was described as wearing what appeared to be "boxes" with "wires taped" to his body. "One individuals had two boxes attached, one box taped to his leg and one box seemingly taped to his forehead," a transportation services spokesman was quoted as saying in the report.

Jewish websites described the man as having worn his tefillin (phylacteries) on the morning ferry voyage.

He was stopped by police at the ferry's destination after it finished crossing the Cook Strait and was released by the police without being charged


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; backwardpeople; humor; judaism; satire
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To: TexasGreg

He was not on a carpet with his butt in the air!


21 posted on 12/12/2010 4:48:29 PM PST by cameraeye (A happy kufir!)
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To: SJackson; James C. Bennett; Jeremiah Jr; Yehuda
Jewish websites described the man as having worn his tefillin (phylacteries) on the morning ferry voyage.

He was stopped by police at the ferry's destination after it finished crossing the Cook Strait and was released by the police without being charged

And...

The Torah commands that they should be worn to serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt.

I take it he'll remember this particular crossing? ;)

22 posted on 12/12/2010 4:58:16 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: naturalized

Exactly. I have never seen a photo, but would have recognized it right away as a phylactery.


23 posted on 12/12/2010 4:59:10 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: James C. Bennett
The Torah commands that they should be worn to serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt.

It has nothing to do with a remembrance about Egypt.

Deu 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall he for frontlets between thine eyes.
ML/NJ
24 posted on 12/12/2010 5:01:03 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: MestaMachine
Ignorant goyim ping!
25 posted on 12/12/2010 5:04:20 PM PST by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we finally revolt.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Also right up there with the burkha, pope hat, and the $4,000.00 suit and tie worn by the TV ‘evangelist’


26 posted on 12/12/2010 5:08:20 PM PST by Hammerhead
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To: ROTB

ROFL! Lookit the price on that! I get Del Monico steaks for less than that.
Where was that?


27 posted on 12/12/2010 5:10:55 PM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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To: SJackson

I’ve both seen and heard of these, but I know them as phylacteries, not tefillin. Never heard them called by the latter word.


28 posted on 12/12/2010 5:13:58 PM PST by madison10
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To: Hammerhead

Well, clothing has a variety of different uses. Protection from the weather; representing profession or rank; symbolizing belief or affiliation; and (in my case) hiding figure flaws :o)


29 posted on 12/12/2010 5:15:16 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (La paciencia todo lo alcanza. Solo Dios basta.)
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To: TexasGreg

Never saw one, never heard of one and I would have been concerned too. But then I’m not a obviously superior, special, know it all like you.

Furthermore, it seems to me the apparatus could also be used by a non-Jewish person, and the little boxes could contain something other than nice thoughts and prayers...that’s the way us idiots think these days.


30 posted on 12/12/2010 5:18:42 PM PST by pepperdog (Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
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To: MestaMachine; ROTB
ROFL! Lookit the price on that!

They had to bribe the Rabbi... Kosher ham is hard to get!

34 posted on 12/12/2010 5:26:07 PM PST by WVKayaker (Faith makes the discords of the present become the harmonies of the future - Robert Collyer)
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To: naturalized

Leftist don’t read.


35 posted on 12/12/2010 5:27:07 PM PST by chemicalman (The Obama's: Proud members of the Vacation-A-Month Club.)
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To: WVKayaker

Sort of like mining for rainbows. Got to tell ya though, bacon and ham are two of G-d’s alltime toughest temptations ever.


36 posted on 12/12/2010 5:32:06 PM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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To: SJackson

If this had happened here, imagine the sneering about ignorant American rednecks that would be coming our way from places like New Zealand.


37 posted on 12/12/2010 5:35:44 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: SJackson

“...one box taped to his leg...”

If that’s not a mistake, then it’s unusual. Tefillin are worn on the head and arm, and it wouldn’t be right placing one in the leg.


38 posted on 12/12/2010 5:38:00 PM PST by Moose Burger
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To: Hildy
I’m Jewish and I understand it. If you’re not familiar with it, and you’re living in today’s crazy world, and a middle eastern man is visibly wearing it..well...you do the math.

+1. Those of us who are Jewish understand it, but when you consider how small a percentage of the population is Jewish and then how much smaller still is the percentage of Jews who are so observant that they use tefillin regularly . . .

When you consider that Muslims commit 99+% of the terrorism around the world, the irony is that this guy was probably the LAST person who was a threat.
39 posted on 12/12/2010 5:42:42 PM PST by rockvillem
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To: WVKayaker

This one, looking close, has a small pig shape and a smaller “pork” label, but it wouldn’t be as stupid as this makes it sound to find kosher ham. It just would have to be made of beef or turkey. And yes, it would be somewhat expensive.


40 posted on 12/12/2010 5:42:48 PM PST by Moose Burger
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