Subj : Re: Question for Doc Sharon (and any other doctors out there)
To   : alt.tv.er
From : npardue
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 20:18:52

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


Ellen K Hursh wrote:
> npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> > Sharon Three wrote:
> >
> > Sorry about your suitcase. Last winter when my parents flew down here
> > for Shaina's Bat Mitzvah, they had several things stolen from their
> > luggage. (Mostly Shaina's gifts ... ;-( ) They tried for months get the
> > airline to pay up.   No luck.
> >
> > Idiots. (Would it be so hard for them to pull you out of the boarding
> > area or customs line and search your luggage in front of you?)
>
> But then they wouldn't have the chance to help themselves to anything
> that caught their fancy. "No faaaaiiiiiiir! <pout>" Wouldn't surprise
> me if these people considered luggage-searching (and the resultant
> pilfering) to be a job perk.
> Hey, maybe your parents should have protested on grounds of religious
> oppression, seeing as how your daughter's Bat Mitzvah gifts were
> stolen.

Well, Mom does kinda suspect that there may have been some sort of
anti-semitic motive there, since what was taken were all clearly Jewish
religious items, while other things of equal or greater value (like her
own jewelry) weren't touched. Makes sense in a way, but I'm not real
sure.  I mean, a Jewish star necklace is pretty obviously a "Jewish"
item, but how many people who are not Jewish (and, for that matter, how
many who are?) would have recognized a 'yad' as something Jewish. (It's
basically a fancy pointer used to keep your place while reading from
the Torah scrolls so you don't have to use your finger. The word means,
literally, 'hand.')

Mom eventually did replace the gifts for Shaina. I don't if she ever
got $$ from either the airlines or her own insurance company. 

Naomi

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