This is another in a series of Rabbi reflection on the News 6. There are several items in today's newspaper that I thought worthy of a comment. The first is about the Chimpanzee, who revolutionized our understanding of the ability of Primates to learn, because he knew about a hundred words in sign language. And what struck me is, well, first of all, in adapting to the Torah portion with Rebekah about how we should kind to animals and clearly, animals have a certain level of intelligence.
The Torah commands us not to be harmful, should be kind to animals and the Rebekah, the well and our kindness to the camels of Eliezer and the Torah portion of High Ezra, remind us of the importance of animals. But even larger, I am bewildered by the fanatics of Christianity and Judaism. Some of them fail to accept that we evolved from primates. They make fun of that. But there is no problem in science saying we evolved from Primates and still believing in God as creator.
That's just a ridiculous position they take, contrary to science and contrary to reason which just makes no reason to go there. Second story, the Kosher Living story, article about Israel now adapting in the marketplace to ultra-orthodox. And what saddened me, it was interesting that they have cellphones or you can't get on the internet because they don't people to be exposed to certain things. Okay, that's their prerogative.
What saddened me though was the excesses they go to. For example, beating up a female soldier, because she wouldn't go to the back of the bus because the men wanted to have no women around them or torturing a pizza store owner even though he was orthodox, he wasn't orthodox enough in the neighborhood. And the Rabbi told him he might be killed, but the fact that most of the majority of these fanatic men don't work, and so all their families live in poverty. It is just a sad indictment of ultra-orthodoxy.
And then the story today about the guy who bombed Hiroshima died. The article said that Einstein said he made one big mistake in his life, and it was recommending the atom bomb. But the article said that this man never lost a night's sleep, he knew what had to be done.
Even though it killed a lot of Japanese , it saved probably a million American servicemen who would have been killed in beating Japan. They warned Japan, Japan didn't listen and they dropped these atomic bombs. And it was meaningful to me because the same newspaper they had another story about the UN once again, sanctioning Iran. And it is clear to everybody that Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons even though they pretend they don't. They denied a holocaust but then they said they basically want to destroy Israel and they will have the capacity to do that with nuclear bombs, and they have missiles which will soon the reach United States.
And so we may have a very difficult decision to make about that soon. Not we, I mean, not me, but the state of Israel and the United States and finally, the story about the Warsaw Ghetto skyscraper being built with renewed Jewish activities, Synagogues and Kosher restaurants. And in line with the idea that the biggest Synagogue in Berlin reopened a couple of months ago, these two stories of the symbols of the destruction of the Jews in the Holocaust, showed example of rebirth. And so I have some really interesting stories on the day in which the Belford declaration had its 90th anniversary, when the British Empire went in record for supporting a Jewish state in Palestine.
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