CAT STEW: Israel Soldier Jailed for Re-Cooking Sabbath Meal
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A word of warning to our more delicate-stomach readers: This story is kinda yucky.
But it reads to good!
It turns out that a solider over in Israel was recently put in jail because he made a meal during the Sabbath — AKA the day of rest.
All of us Israel-vets know that things over in the Holy Land kinda comes to a complete halt from Friday night to Saturday night — especially anything associated with the government, the army or most of Jerusalem.
Anyway, the soldier was up on his base about to eat a dish of that old Yiddish staple, cholent, when he realized a cat had beaten him too it.
Kinda grossed out, he quickly made himself a “light” meal — and that’s where the problems began.
You see, cholent is this stew of sorts that’s made the day before the sabbath and then eaten during the sabbath without requiring warming-up. This way, you get a proper meal but don’t break the Jewish ban on labor to make it.
But since the solider’s cholent had been turned into a cat snack, he decided to make something new. Midway through, one of the formal kitchen staff arrived and busted the soldier for cooking on the sabbath, tattled on his ass and got him sent to his commander.
The soldier then had a military trial and spent 20 days — 20 DAYS! — in jail.
HARSH!
Word has now gotten out about this whole sham — and Israel’s army mouth-pieces are trying to play it all down.
“This is a case of a soldier which was sentenced to detention due to disorderly conduct and violation of IDF rules,” an army spokesperson said. ”The soldier has been known to have disciplinary problems in the past.”
Next time we go to Israel, we’re totally BYO-ing.








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