Double Christmas

Armenian Orthodox
Patriarch today

Christmas seems to be soon over with the Feast of Epiphany tomorrow. But not entirely because tomorrow the Orthodox Churches celebrate Christmas. So schools close for 2 weeks so that the 2 Christmasses can be celebrated equally and without discrimination. But non-christians get confused by the 2 Christmasses. It's because the Western churches use the Gregorian Calendar and the Orthodox churches use the Julian calendar which is about 10 days late.

The Armenian Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of St. James the Just, first bishop of Jerusalem and brother of the Lord. Their cathedral is built over the tomb of St. James - he is not one of the apostles, namely James the brother of John  or James Thaddeus but the relative of Jesus who took over the leadership of the Church in Jerusalem as mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles.

This week I was inundated with curry. I had this urge for curry so I cooked some chicken curry ... Singaporean style. Then Bro. Leo cooked some indian style curry with ghee rice and gave them to me. Then the day after, Mian restaurant gave me thai style curry with rice. So I've been curries everyday all week. Too much of a good thing.

Curry and ghee rice

Some bad news for Palestinians and non-Jewish landowners ... the Israeli Army confiscates swarths of land in order to use them for military practice. It's not like there's not enough land .... there are thousands of dunks of desert in the south but the plan seems to be that after military use, the land would be converted to jewish settlements. https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-idf-exiles-palestinian-families-from-their-homes-to-train-in-their-fields-1.6807086?fbclid=IwAR3o4s7QaJp5I0IiD0QW7t8SkFPUM0IHWnPAk9tzipzmQokdgYpnXB_ohkc

And the Jewish implosion continuous as state-funded religious schools refuse to accept black jewish children. It's pure flat racism ... and if it occurred in any other school, it would be anti-semitism. But it's jewish schools so it's ok ... well keep watching this spot, because there'll be protests from the black jewish community soon.  https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5440141,00.html?fbclid=IwAR2QKAwEw1HrVUF0JhNfDveaw7OKNBjUNDUkcTQi-BhzgmbtPRolzFMxAgA