No Flying while Jewish!

**bert** · 01-21-2010, 08:34 PM

Ok. . exaggerating just a bit, but c'mon. . a flight out of LaGuardia, and the passengers had never seen Tefillin before?

sheesh!

http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article...ngers_prayer/1

**40footwolf** · 01-21-2010, 08:35 PM

That said, who starts on a holy ritual when they get on a plane?

**bert** · 01-21-2010, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by 40footwolf

That said, who starts on a holy ritual when they get on a plane?

an early morning flight, leaving as the sun is coming up?

pretty much any Jew who is religious and needs to say thier morning prayers.

again. .this is a flight from New York -- pretty high Orthadox Jew population (in comparision to other cities)

**Gryphon** · 01-21-2010, 08:38 PM

unfortunately this isnt the first time ive seen something like this

**sk716** · 01-21-2010, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by 40footwolf

That said, who starts on a holy ritual when they get on a plane?

Are you kidding? At this point, who doesn't?

**DubipR** · 01-21-2010, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by 40footwolf

That said, who starts on a holy ritual when they get on a plane?

Are you kidding?
Hell, I say the Sh'ma every time I jump on the 405 Freeway.

I say a prayer on every transportation I take, especially airlines

**Alexander the immortal** · 01-21-2010, 08:51 PM

I hope the airline company paid the ticket of the passengers back after this incident or gave them atleast a discount and returned part of the total sum of the ticket.

**the4thpip** · 01-22-2010, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by Alexander the immortal

I hope the airline company paid the ticket of the passengers back after this incident or gave them atleast a discount and returned part of the total sum of the ticket.

While we're at it, let's hope they gave him a Unicorn, too!

**FeminineMystique** · 01-22-2010, 04:59 AM

This is absolutely true. I have yet to meet any Jewish people who have the power of flight

Originally Posted by gryphon

unfortunately this isnt the first time ive seen something like this

I'm sorry to hear that darling *Hugs*

**Typo Lad** · 01-22-2010, 05:36 AM

I'm loving my fellow Jew's reaction to this.

I've been asked to stop putting Tefillin on when flying El Al.

This was an exercise in ignorance. The passangers didn't know, the staff should maybe have known, and the kid should have absolutely known. You don't put on Teffilin in a case of Sakana, danger, and this could have quicly become one. If it had been a grown man I'd cut no slack, but he was just a kid.

**Charles RB** · 01-22-2010, 06:17 AM

These days I get nervous flying, and all of those nerves come from what panicked security men & cabin crew might do.

(Well, that and the fact that every UK airport will have uber-scanners that will show your naked self to security.)

**FeminineMystique** · 01-22-2010, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by Charles RB

These days I get nervous flying, and all of those nerves come from what panicked security men & cabin crew might do.

(Well, that and the fact that every UK airport will have uber-scanners that will show your naked self to security.)

I'm eagerly awaiting my flight to the US. And I sincerely hope they'll check my luggage JUST so I can see the looks on the guards faces when they open up a case full of whips, PVC, latex and assorted S&M gear

It should be a Kodak moment

**Lester C.** · 01-22-2010, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by 40footwolf

That said, who starts on a holy ritual when they get on a plane?

I can't speak for Jews, but I do it because I'm extremely afraid to fly. Usually I only pray silently right before I go to sleep but the two times I've flown I was praying before the flight, during the flight, as we landing and afterward thanking God I made it.

If you think I'm bad the one time my brother flew to boot camp, because they made him, he got stinking drunk and did his best to pass out after boarding the plane. It didn't work and he more scared than ever to fly.

**FeminineMystique** · 01-22-2010, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by Lester C.

I can't speak for Jews, but I do it because I'm extremely afraid to fly. Usually I only pray silently right before I go to sleep but the two times I've flown I was praying before the flight, during the flight, as we landing and afterward thanking God I made it.

If you think I'm bad the one time my brother flew to boot camp, because they made him, he got stinking drunk and did his best to pass out after boarding the plane. It didn't work and he more scared than ever to fly.

I've got a serious fear of flying myself

Being in a metal tube all that way up in the air? Not my idea of a good time