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^^ the Hora: Jewish wedding dance
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^^ Clue -- a board game where players solve a murder story of "who-dunnit" --
The answers tell who is the perpetrator, what weapon did they use, and in which room of the mysterious mansion was the deed done.
For example:
Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick
or,
Professor Plum in the billiard room with the lead pipe
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^^ In the 1960s English professor Harry Kemelman began writing a mystery series of books where a rabbi solves the puzzle. Titles --
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
Monday the Rabbi Took Off...etc.
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Yesterday there was a story in the news where a British Pakistani citizen armed with a pistol took four people hostage in a synagogue in Texas.
After an hours-long siege, the rabbi signaled the remaining two hostages to make a break for it, and he threw a chair at the gunman to distract him.
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reader comments on SLATE --
* "Have a seat."
* Is it legal in Texas for a British citizen to possess a gun? On the one hand, they hate four-ners. On the other hand, they love guns.
* Saturday the Rabbi Slung Chairs
* "That's my boy!" --Bobby Knight
* I wonder if he had a permit for that chair.
* I'm confused isn't that just how people do the hora in Texas?
* Anyone else think that from now on throwing a chair at someone should be called "Doing the Texas Hora"?
* "Chair-ity begins at home."
Rabbis are always willing to teach a lesson.
* So much for the nebbishy rabbi trope! Perhaps chair throwing will become a thing.
Seriously though, that was awesome!
* Love this story! Love this Rabbi. So, there's a Jewish Principle, "Derech Eretz Kadma L'Torah," which speaks to "proper conduct".
While this isn't really that... I say the Rabbi showed the man, Proper Conduct~!
* A good guy with a chair.
* "The only thing that stops a bad-guy with a gun is a Rabbi with a chair!"
* It was the Rabbi, in the Synagogue, with the chair.
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reader comments, Washington Post --
* A good guy with a chair ...
* Rabbis, apparently, can bring a chair to a gunfight.
* No one so far has asked just how a recent foreign visitor, on a tourist visa, got a deadly firearm so quickly.
Oh. I forgot. This is America. We're flooded with guns. So we can be "free".
* The way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a Rabbi with a chair, apparently.
* As long as the West allow these people to flow into their countries like refugees, you're going to have problems like these. Look how fast this foreigner can seek weapons in America, it's mind boggling.
* I live in the area and have met Rabbi Charlie on several occasions. His actions in this situation didn't surprise me. He truly is a mensch.
* That's good to hear. what a story
* What can stop a bad man with a gun? A good rabbi with a chair.
* Where (and how) did he get a gun? Did he fly over from the U.K. with it?
* -------------------- No. He would not have been allowed a gun on an international flight to the US on a travel visa.
The most likely explanation is he acquired the gun in a "private sale."
* It was Texas. He probably bought it from his cab driver on the way to the synagogue.
* Liberal Redneck
Good for the rabbi. Mensch !
* Akram brought a gun to a chairfight and lost.
* Good guy with a chair saves the day.
* The good Rabbi is onto something. Maybe this will start a new trend where Texans pack folding chairs instead of guns.
* It takes a good rabbi with a chair...
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