Jerusalem rabbis 'condemn dog to death by stoning'

[Thor]

This is utterly insane, awful, horrible, incredible, outrageous, ludicrous, fataing crazy, etc..

A Jewish rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a stray dog it feared was the reincarnation of a lawyer who insulted its judges, reports say.
The dog entered the Jerusalem financial court several weeks ago and would not leave, reports Israeli website Ynet.
It reminded a judge of a curse passed on a now deceased secular lawyer about 20 years ago, when judges bid his spirit to enter the body of a dog.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13819764

[Cowperson]

Primitive savages.

Cowperson

[FlamesAddiction]

I had no idea reincarnation was belief in Judaism.

I can assure you though, most Jews are probably euqally or more outraged at something this stupid.

[ricosuave]

ahahahahahaha

[Gozer]

What, if not religion, could be used to justify such behavior?

[Addick]

Originally Posted by Gozer

What, if not religion, could be used to justify such behavior?

A woman's promise that you can play with her lady parts?

[ricoFlame]

wow. wow.

[Rob Brown]

Middle east + = problem solved.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Silly rabbis.

They're making the assumption that lawyers have souls.

[pylon]

As a jewish man, I will say this.....

Stupid Jews.

[flylock shox]

I'm surprised they didn't just send it to Gaza with the rest of the Jewish setters.

[Nage Waza]

I don't know how accurate any of this story is. For starters, any so called Rabbinical court in Israel has no jurisdiction on anything regarding dogs, in particular some type of financial court. A Rabbinical court may have lots to say about kosher foods or things like that, but nothing about legit legal matters.
As far as I know, there is also no way they are talking about reincarnation, especially some dumb story about a lawyer and his spirit or whatever.
Quite possibly there are some kooks in Israel who pray to dogs, or whatever this story is about. There is nothing in this article that would not be condemned within Israel for sheer stupidity by all involved.
Sounds like a bunch of BS to me! The story is not covered anywhere, except distributed copies of the BBC article.

[HPLovecraft]

Sounds legit. Love the file photo.

[Thor]

The file photo is amazing.

[Thor]

Still its the BBC, as for trustworthy news sources they are at the top of my list.

[Calgaryborn]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I had no idea reincarnation was belief in Judaism.

I can assure you though, most Jews are probably euqally or more outraged at something this stupid.

I don't think it is. If the story is real it must be a new development.

[simmonjam1]

Gassing the wretched dog would be far more humane.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Thor

Still its the BBC, as for trustworthy news sources they are at the top of my list.

The BBC news channel is extremely trustworthy and usually unbiased. The website, however, always has an extemely left slant. Anything said about Israel shoudl be taken with a grain of salt.

Originally Posted by Calgaryborn

I don't think it is. If the story is real it must be a new development.

Jews most certainly do not believe that people get reincarnated as dogs.

Apparently there is some truth to this story though. An old rabbi asked some kids to shoo away a dog that was causing a nuisance by throwing rocks at it.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...082843,00.html

A anti-religious Jewish newspaper wrote a tongue in cheek article about it, with a purposely shocking headline. Everyone with anti-Israel/Jewish agenda has now picked up the story as truth.


This is a case of a grumpy old man mistreting a stray dog and has little to do with Judaism.

[puckluck]

This story sounds like BS.

[ynwa03]

How does it sound BS?