Never on a Sunday?
My point to MockingbirdGirl and others is that that when a crisis is really serious, people of religious faith might consider their priorities. Yes, on Good Friday or any other day of religious/cultural significance.
There are plainly some religious Jews for whom it would be simply impossible to work at this time.
I remember in Northern Ireland where I began my career there were some politicians who would not be interviewed on Sunday. That is a matter for them and their constituents and I imagine most of their constituents (there and here in the US) would regard such faith-based decisions as an important right. I have been in Israel for Yom Kippur. I know it matters.
But when Israel was attacked in 1973, on that day, suggests that survival trumped observance for many:
"Most Jews had been observing strict religious rules of fasting and prayer, but with the outbreak of fighting, Israel's civilian reserve force is now rushing to mobilise."
On other matters, I don't think I have ever seen one single short article so deeply unconvincing as .
, though I still suspect fundamentally wrong, and the idea that the rise of Venezuela (a rise wholly dependent on high oil prices and trade with the USA!) somehow signifies a tectonic shift in global power is an argument I fear it may be difficult to sustain.
from an area of the world where they know the difference between a crisis and a calamity.
But overall, if we all end up living in caves and bartering for our lunch, I know which group of cave-dwellers will soon come to dominate the world again...
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