Rabbi: Tsunami result of haredi arrests

[Scurrilous]

Leader of Rachmastrivka Hasidic dynasty says Japan punished for imprisonment of two yeshiva students convicted of drug smuggling

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4050133,00.html

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"Rabbi David Twersky, leader of the Rachmastrivka Hasidic dynasty, says the recent tsunami in Japan, which has left thousands of people dead, was the result of the arrest of two yeshiva students by Japanese authorities after being convicted of smuggling drugs.

"The Japanese don’t understand why they keep on receiving blow after blow, and it never ends. If they want it to stop, they must release the two guys jailed in their prison immediately, and then experience salvation," the rabbi told his followers last week during a Purim celebration in Jerusalem.

Haredi website Ladaat reported that the Rebbe asked for the names of the two jailed men and said a prayer for their immediate release. "Amen," the audience responded.

The yeshiva students were arrested in an airport in Japan in April 2008, in possession of a suitcase with some 90,000 Ecstasy tablets. The detainees' lawyers claimed at the time that the young men were victims of a 'sting' and were tempted with money, but the two were convicted the following year."

[hatrack]

1. Oh, STFU, Nostradumbass

nt

[Taverner]

3. "Nostradumbass"...LOL

I love it

[Angry Dragon]

2. Reads like the Onion..............

teabaggers invade Israel

[rfranklin]

4. Morans...an equal opportunity employer!

All faiths, races and creeds are welcome.

[ET Awful]

5. WOW! Who knew that Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell had a Jewish counterpart?

:)

[Jackpine Radical]

6. All Abrahamic religions seem to have enclaves of lunatics.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Yikes. Is 'Twersky' the Hebrew word for 'Pat Robertson'?

[turtle-turtle]

8. Check out Rabbi Abraham Twerski

He's a counselor in Pittsburgh that has written many books on drug abuse and treatments.

All of them are very good.

[LeftishBrit]

10. I was being flippant. Obviously not everyone called Twersky is a religious lunatic!!!

The Pittsburgh Rabbi Twerski is obviously a very different person from the person described in the OP!

For that matter there was also the late cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky, who won a Nobel Prize together with Daniel Kahneman for their fascinating and important work on human reasoning errors.

[oberliner]

9. What is it about this story that inspired you to post it here?

It was posted without comment and you've made no comment in any follow-up posts.

[Violet_Crumble]

11. Gotta love religious lunatics like him...

One thing major religions seem to have in common is that they contain some folk who love nothing better than to grab whatever the latest disaster is and announce it's the work of their vengeful and petty sky-fairy...

[Scurrilous]

12. Yep.

:thumbsup:

[King_David]

13. What has this story to do with I/P ?

It is a story about Jews (Ultra Orthodox )

Maybe the Jewish forum or Japanese forum would of been a better choice?

[azurnoir]

14. oh about as much as one about a Norwegian politican who is a Holocaust denier n/t