Animal abuse in Israel

[Lillybee]

Jewish court sentences dog to death by stoning.

 

 

JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported Friday.

 

According to Ynet, the large dog made its way into the Monetary Affairs Court in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, frightening judges and plaintiffs.

 

Despite attempts to drive the dog out of the court, the hound refused to leave the premises.

 

One of the sitting judges then recalled a curse the court had passed down upon a secular lawyer who had insulted the judges two decades previously.

 

Their preferred divine retribution was for the lawyer's spirit to move into the body of a dog, an animal considered impure by traditional Judaism.

 

Clearly still offended, one of the judges sentenced the animal to death by stoning by local children.

 

The canine target, however, managed to escape.

 

"Let the Animals Live", an animal-welfare organisation filed a complaint with the police against the head of the court, Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, who denied that the judges had called for the dog's stoning, Ynet reported.

 

One of the court's managers, however, confirmed the report of the lapidation sentence to Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot.

 

"It was ordered... as an appropriate way to 'get back at' the spirit which entered the poor dog," the paper reported the manager as saying, according to Ynet.

 

This is very strange to me.

[browngrl]

I heard about this and I am appalled and stupefied that a court decided to stone a dog. I hope that dog stays free!

[Beeks]

What the....? :shock:

[defrauding]

Fortunately, this story appears to be a hoax. Less fortunately, the story reveals how lazy mainstream journalists have become.

[Patsy]

I've seen it everywhere.

Anyone remember the story about a model being bitten on the breast by a snake? It was reported on ohnotheydidnt (the livejournal group), I believe, with a snarky quip at the end: "Unfortunately the snake died of silicone poisoning" (paraphrase). So when the dozens and dozens of papers took the story up in the days following, they reported that as fact. If they'd even gone to the original article they'd have realised that a snarky fashion/celeb blog was the first place to say it, so maaaaaybe a joke? Not legit?

[GeoBQn]

I knew it was a hoax because without the Temple standing, the rabbinical court has no authority to sentence anyone to stoning . . . and as far as I know, only people can be sentenced to stoning.