{"id":189957,"date":"2010-01-24T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/24\/tefillin-of-mass-destruction\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T01:32:00","slug":"tefillin-of-mass-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/24\/tefillin-of-mass-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tefillin of Mass Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 190px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img193.imageshack.us\/img193\/9079\/tefillin3388438.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img193.imageshack.us\/img193\/9079\/tefillin3388438.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/deuteronomy\/6-8.htm\">Deuteronomy 6:8<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>So a plane was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/34973665\/ns\/us_news-security\/\">diverted to Philadelphia on a New York to Kentucky flight because of concerns of the straps and boxes that a Jewish Teen was wearing as he prayed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Jewish teen\u2019s prayers spark airliner scare<br \/>Flight is diverted after religious item is mistaken for a bomb, police say<\/p>\n<p>updated 9:18 a.m. ET, Fri., Jan. 22, 2010<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A Jewish teenager trying to pray on a New York-to-Kentucky flight caused a scare Thursday when he pulled out a set of small boxes containing holy scrolls, leading the captain to divert the flight to Philadelphia, where the commuter plane was greeted by police, bomb-sniffing dogs and federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old on US Airways Express Flight 3079 was using tefillin, a set of small boxes containing biblical passages that are attached to leather straps, Philadelphia police Lt. Frank Vanore said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, the guy wearing Tefillin is among the people <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">least<\/span> likely to be an Islamic bomber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes &#8212;Deuteronomy 6:8 So a plane was diverted to Philadelphia on a New York to Kentucky flight because of concerns of the straps and boxes that a Jewish Teen was wearing as he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1061,982,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-security","category-stupid","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}