----- Original Message ----- From: "Halupovich Ilana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:29 AM Subject: RE: BRIN-L digest 2067
> > Dan Minette wrote > <<Israel Is mostly atheistic. A Jewish friend of mine said he was pulled > off the street to read kiddush (sp) because there were so few Jewish people > in Israel who were at all religious.>> > > Probably "kaddish" - prayer for the dead and not "kiddush" - some kind of > blessing. :-) Yea. I actually had kaddish down, and the spell checker convinced me that it knew the spelling better than I did. >I know it sounds strange, but we *are* religious country, most > of which population is atheistic. Thanks to proportional representation. :-) I know the reason for this, I think. The religious parties are a small swing group that has a few seats in the Knesset. When the vote is close, they will push both Labor and Likud (sp) for concessions on religious laws. Thus, though they are a small minority, they are able to have very strict religious laws passed. Dan M.
