Well, Jewish chicks ARE hot.....
There’s that story of Sodom and Gomorrah...
That headline - just tooooooo easy.
Astarte, wherever worshiped, was a goddess of fertility and sexual love. A trace of this among the Hebrews appears in Deut. vii. 13, xxviii. 4, 18, where the lambs are called the "ashtarot" of the flock. It is usually assumed that Astarte Worship was always a foreign cult among the Hebrews; but analogy with the development of other Semitic deities, like the Phenician Baal, would lead to the supposition that Astarte Worship before the days of the Prophets may have somewhat prejudiced that of Yhwh. The problem is a difficult one, the references to the cult in the Old Testament being so few and so vague. The reaction against Baal and Astarte, inaugurated by the Prophets, had a profound effect upon the moral life of Israel (see "Jour. Bibl. Lit." x. 72-91; Budde, "Religion of Israel," ch. ii-v.). Jeremiah (vii. 18; xliv. 17, 18) and Ezekiel (viii. 14) attest various forms of this worship in their time, which may refer to a direct importation from Babylonia. The sacrificial use of swine's blood (Isa. lxv. 4, lxvi. 3) may be a reference to a form of the cult similar to that known in Cyprus, where swine were sacred to Astarte ("Jour. Bibl. Lit." x. 74, and "Hebraica," x. 45, 47).
Sextivus...for the rest of us!
Interesting combination of Sex Festival and Penetrates in the headline.
With those opening two sentences, it's official: This reporter is -- to use a Yiddish term -- a schmuck.
The main coordinator behind Israel's first sex festival is not a sex therapist but rather former female model Israel Nitzan Kirshenboim, a 32-year-old mother of two and an avid consumer of sex products and shows. Kirshenboim says she got the idea for the event after visiting a sex festival in Berlin.
(snip)
We want to present sex to people in a way that they won't be ashamed, and they'll be able to freely check out what fits them best."
I searched for a pic of Ms. Kirshenboim because it is my experience that most of the women promoting this type of in-your-face sexuality aren't very attractive, and are sometimes downright ugly. E.g., Ruth Westheimer, Susan Block, Cosmopolitan publisher emeritus Helen Gurley Brown (who was attractive in her youth, but is just kidding herself now) and Sue Johansen, who now has more creases in her face than did Charles Bronson.
Here's Kirshenboim in 1994 (she's first from right to left), when she was a semi-finalist in the "Miss International" beauty pageant. Click on this link if pic above has been blocked.
Fast forward thirteen or so years. I doubt the situation has improved.
Here's what Hollander has become. Not work safe. Not lunch or dinner safe, either.
Nice segue.
Israel is 85% atheist. Many atheists make the worship of sex their religion. Moral filth such as this is therefore no surprise.
what no pictures.