Weather It Is (Moving Towards Fall)

Good Afternoon:

The weather is now quite pleasant.  I must say, though, that the first day of Rosh HaShana was too hot even for your weatherman.  I am speaking about someone who never hesitates to stick his nose outside (or even a finger), and will even step outside in the worst blizzard.  However, the combination  of low 30 temperatures and no wind really made the heat feel excessive.

Hence, it is strange that the cooling breezes of the last few days have been replaced by a lot of hot air from Washington over the "approval" of new homes in the town of Shiloh.  While the excuses offered up by the Foreign Ministry were pretty lame, the temperature was turned up way to high.  Did you know that building 90 homes in Shiloh is a great threat to the security of the State of Israel (says the US), but an agreement to perhaps delay but not prevent an Iranian bomb is not?

Before I go on, I need to mention that there is a 50+% chance of rain on Yom Kippur.  A fairly strong mid and upper level trough will approach and bring our first chance of measurable rain.  However, there is a 70% chance that Sukkot will turn hot again.

Yet, there was no hot air expended when the Arab members of the Israeli Kenesset stayed away from Mr. Peres funeral!  Something is wrong when an obvious venue for fostering coexistence among peoples is ignored, and it says (if you didn't already know) where their heads are.

Their lack of Israeli-Arab attendance really makes us feel that the Jewish people are a people that dwells alone, so said Bilam to King Balak.

But, even though we dwell alone, it seems wherever we go (even here), the leaders of the world must stick their noses disproportionately into our business.  True, we were touched by the attendance of many at Mr. Peres funeral, but where is the concern for war-torn areas of the world, if not the one most obviously nearby? Where is the outrage for anyone but us?

If it doesn't concern the Jews, it just isn't interesting.  How strange.

Barry Lynn