To Left: Last of the Philistines! Dr. Zeev Dagani
Speaking of Philistinism in north Tel Aviv and beyond, Makor Rishon May 22, 2009 had an interesting news story about bigotry and intolerance in the wealthy northern section of Tel Aviv. It seems that one student at the secularist elite Tel Aviv high school, the Herzliya Gymnasium, upset the local powers that be and offended their delicate sensitivities by showing up at school wearing a yarmulke, a kipa. Even worse, he convinced some of his friends also to wear a kipa during class. If he had convinced his friends to smoke pot with him, the school would never even have dreamed of taking disciplinary action against him!
This was an intolerable provocation, insisted the principal of the school. He suspended the felon in question for wearing his yarmulke, and possibly also for perpetrating a drive-by blessing. After all, Israel is a pluralistic democracy and so such things cannot be tolerated with equanimity! In response, the fiend's pals threatened to come to school the next week actually wearing tefillin.
We are trying to find out if the principal plans to arm the staff with automatic rifles and stun grenades to protect his school building from infiltration by students wearing yarmulkes….
The principle of the school is Dr. Zeev Degani, and you can leave him a message telling him what you think of all this here!
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