When in Rome...

I have complained that many journalists who come to cover Israel do not know the langauge, do not know adequately our history, Zionism and worse, the Arabs.

Now, we have another problem - not knowing enough of Jewish ritual customs.

Just received this from LH:

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Got this from a Beit Shemesh list:
From: xxxxxx>
Date: Jan 13, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: a true story / listener's identity known to me
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@sa12.bezeqint.net

Whilst listening to the BBC World Service's report on the health of Ariel Sharon , this past Motzei Shabbos, I could not help myself from laughing aloud. The BBC Correspondent reported how the journalists camped outside Haddassah Hospital had just watched a group of Ultra-Orthodox Jews come outside the hospital building, raise their heads up to the seventh floor, where Sharon was recuperating, and sing some prayers for his recovery.

I guess the BBC's Correspondent had never seen Kiddush Levanah before.

Kiddush Levana.