On the menu board and at the drive up window, there is a small clause written in both English and Arabic - attesting to the purity and "Prepared in the strictest Islamic tradition with a sharp knife slicing the throat and the exclamation of Allah Akbar (God is great)" which odd that it is, it makes me wonder if restaurants catering to the Hebrew population has one tailored to Kosher laws? They should at any rate.

Here they do spend alot of time at the dinner table, very much so. I've never been to Jerusalem, but a friend here who was stationed there with his family for 3 years tells me they also treated meals as a more, I dont know what the word is, social affair? A long drawn out event, where the family comes together and shares a meal. Growing up in the U.S. my mother made sure we all sat down for big family meals every day, but I realize that isn't necessarily the norm. I am interested as well in the local or regional use of herbs and such for medicinal purposes, because really most of what they'd use here they would have borrowed from other empires and regions they had close trade ties with (like the Indus, the Egyptians, etc) But that isn't very in keeping with the discussion of Hebrew peoples.