Ко Дню Нашей Любимой Милиции

Отрывки из милицейских протоколов:

1. ...После попойки произошла драка между стеной и забором.
2. ...гражданка В. кричала, ругалась и мешала гражданам спокойно отдыхать в медвытрезвителе.
3. ...мужской труп зеленого цвета сидел в непринужденной позе на унитазе. На полу лежали трупья жена и трупьи дети.
4. ...гражданка Ф. заявила, что ее изнасиловали, но не туда, куда обычно.
5. ...на полу в кухне лежало много выблеванной пищевой продукции.
6. ...одна нога была согнута в колене, другая откинута в сторону, а левая - вытянута вдоль тела.
7. ...из-за того, что кирпич пролетел мимо головы гражданина В., хулиганство считать неудачным.
8. ...гражданин Е. в нетрезвом состоянии шел за гражданкой К. 2 квартала и нецензурно восхищался.

Boston Edah Mini-Conference 11/19/05

Edah Mini-Conference in Boston - Motza-ey Shabbat
The Challenges to Orthodoxy in the 21st Century

EDAH MINI-CONFERENCE in BOSTON
Saturday Night
November 19th

8:00 pm @ 35 Morseland Avenue

Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, Newton Center, MA

$10 for lecture/dessert

8:00 pm Rabbi Saul Berman
Is Chumrah Innately more Religious?

8:20pm Dr. Efraim Zuroff
Will Religious Zionism Be Able to Continue to Bridge the Secular-Observant Divide in Israeli Society? Reflections on the Disengagement Process and its Aftermath

8:40pm Rabbi Benjamin Hecht
Halachic Pluralism: The Value of Eilu v’Eilu

9:00pm Dessert

9:20pm Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Shaping an Orthodox Response to the Reality of Intermarriage

9:40pm Rabbi Dov Linzer
Is it Legitimate for Feminist Values to Influence Halacha?

10:00pm Dr. Samuel Heilman
The future of the relationship between the Charedi and Modern Orthodox Community

Speakers’ Bios
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К горению (пригородов) Парижа

http://www.reason.com/links/links111405.shtml
By Tim Cavanaugh

Here's a good rule of thumb: If you come across the phrase "Islamo-fascist" unironically deployed in an article, there's a 99-percent chance the author doesn't know what he or she is talking about. The rule has been in full effect over the past few weeks, as rioting in France's banlieus has allowed the usual gang of idiots to do what they do best: take a kernel of truth (in this case, that the rioters are Muslims and either immigrants or first-generation French citizens) and build it into an apocalyptic, hysterical tirade (in this case, predictions of a Euro-jihad and none-dare-call-it-Islamo-treason castigations of the politically correct mainstream media).

That's easy to do in America, where the national media have never ignored a riot, but the true international template of the French riots has been missed by both the assimilationists and the clash-of-civilizationists. Instead, the model was described more than 40 years ago, in a popular book that has never been fully appreciated as a political prophecy.

What are the distinguishing features of these riots? They are, as Olivier Roy notes in his recent New York Times argument for assimilation, overwhelmingly the work of young, male layabouts who are poor but not particularly uncomfortable. The rioters may be attracted to an extreme version of their parents' religion (although there's been precious little evidence of that), but the central characteristic so far has been a marked disintegration of parental influence.
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