Jorg Haider: 1950-2008
On Rosh Hashana the year is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed. And while repentance, charity, and prayer may cancel the stern decree, there’s no indication that Jorg Haider, Austria’s premier post-war Nazi sympathizing closet case, engaged in any of the above three. Thus, Jewdar was not terribly surprised when we heard that he had met his apparently perfectly timely end in a car crash. While we don’t know what the afterworld has to offer Haider, we suspect strongly that he’s going to wish he spent his last Yom Kippur a little more productively.
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submit a comment10.18.08 at 3:10 pm
Barooch hashem ! May there be many more such wonderful gifts as Haide’s death from the Almighty on the Eve of every Jewish holiday – and I’m not religious.