Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Declining dollar and the Israeli Hareidim

The Jewish Worker posts two articles:

The declining dollar and the Charedi world
and

The Gedolim say the dollar is worth 4 shekels.


Definitely worth a read.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heh.

Their leaders are so used to everyone jumping when they decree something to be "Daas Torah" that they probably thought "We'll just decree that a 4 shekel dollar is Daas Torah and the currency market will have to oblige."

Chareidim - meet the real world. Try not to get run over in the process, would you?

concernedjewgirl said...

*******POOOF************
I have just now turned my $1 U.S currency bill into $400 U.S currency bills.....


Yah that doesn't work, either.

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Mighty Garnel Ironheart said...

Up here in Canada, we have a story called Canadian Tire. It's a car parts, home parts kind of store. Anyway, they had a brilliant idea years ago in that with any cash puchase, you get coupons for the store worth 1% of what you paid. So if you buy $100 of stuff, you get $1 in coupons. The trick is that the coupons look like fake money, right down to the style of the print, etc.

I've heard in some US states Canadian motorists have successfully gotten away with paying fines with these bills. "Yeah, that's our money up north, eh?"