Moved to Brews 'n Jews. Hey, what's the deal with their beards? Do they never shave? Most of them have teenager puberty beards.
Their religion forbids them to shave, or even trim apparently, those rats' nests. Hilarious story...during the first Gulf War/Target Practice session, the Israelis were panicking about the possibility of Iraqi Scuds landing on Tel Aviv or wherever (never mind that not one poor ratling died as a direct result of these Scud attacks) and absolutely oy vey shitting themselves over the slight chance that Saddam might have put some nasty chemicals or germs on top of them. So, the Izzy gov't takes it upon itself to distribute gasmasks, but the fly in the matzo was that you couldn't have a beard and wear one, for obvious reasons, and the haredim were issued special, dispensations, I guess you could say, to shave for that reason. All was peachy until they found out that the gov't was issuing special gas masks that were hoods that could fit over the whole face, for infants, elderly and others that couldn't otherwise wear a conventional mask. These Orthodox noseminers took it upon themselves to demand these masks for themselves so they could keep their precious beards. Now, there weren't enough to go around even for the people who really needed them, much less for religious nuts, but nevertheless, within a few hours, the bearded ratlings had managed to take all 5000 of the masks for themselves! There seems to be quite a bit of resentment of those Yahweh-tremblers in Israel. The Orthodox wield political influence far out of proportion to their numbers, yet are exempt from many of the civic duties other, less worthy Jews, are subject to such as compulsory military service. Which kinda reminds me of the situation in this country, except that any Jew would suffice here, so don't feel bad less-worthy Jews, everybody needs a nigger to feel superior to and we Americans are happy it would seem to provide that service.