Did you hear the joke about the Jewish boy on an airplane? He boarded a flight to go non-stop from New York to Kentucky. He prayed and the airplane stopped in Philadelphia; the same city that W. C. Fields said he rather be living in.
However, this particular flight was not a joke. The flight left very early and the boy did not have time to pray before boarding.
His prayers as usual were accompanied by tefillin, small boxes with biblical passages. One is worn on the wrist and the other on the forehead.
Rabbi Shmuel Greenberg explained that the use of the boxes reminds the person “that their actions during the day, and what they think about during the day, should be on a level of holiness and should inspire them to do productive, good things.”
Needless to say, the air crew did not seem to recognize these prayer items that have been in use for thousands of years. The pane landed and the FBI and TSA rushed the boy off the plane for interrogation.
Maybe light attendants should get Christianity and Judaism added to their sensitivity training.
If a person of Saudi decent had been chanting “Allah Akbar” and fumbling with his prayer beads, the flight attendants would have been overcome with political correctness and handcuffed all the passengers who would be trying to restrain him. Of course CAIR would get several millions of dollars after they took the airline to court in front of some liberal judge.
Maybe I will start praying and reading out loud from Revelations the next time I’m on an airplane. That would be a sure way to get a room at the Gray Bar Hotel and get placed on the no-fly list.
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