On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:27:03 -0500, George Z. Bush wrote:

I'm sure that they probably have more than an ample supply of lard in Israel,
since they do raise pigs for export, even if they don't consume them. (^-^)))

Actually, some (Jewish) Israelis do eat pork, and Israeli citizens who happen
to be Christian don't even have to ignore dietary laws to do it.

When I spent a summer as a volunteer worker picking fruit on Kibbutz Revivim (in
the Negev Desert near the southern Israeli town of Beersheva), the communal dining
hall occasionally served ham. The Hebrew euphemism for pork is "basar lavan"
("white meat").

I never asked, but my guess is the ham served in the dining hall was a deliberate
flouting of Jewish law -- the kibbutzniks I met tended to be irreligious at least,
and fanatically anti-everything associated with traditional European notions of
Judaism at most.


ljd