Q&A: I’d be glad to hear your opinion, or for you to write about the current issues of the “niddah uproar” and Yuval Dayan’s refraining from touch in front of Biden
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I’d be glad to hear your opinion, or for you to write about the current issues of the “niddah uproar” and Yuval Dayan’s refraining from touch in front of Biden
Question
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here are links that explain it:
The niddah uproar:
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/opinion/501807/
Yuval Dayan refraining from touch:
https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/opinion/2022-07-16/ty-article/.premium/00000182-07ed-d7d0-a3ae-cfffe8620000
Answer
These aren’t current issues; they’re nonsense. They take some anecdotal matter and turn it into a storm in a teacup.
I wrote briefly about this here (an earlier source is mentioned there, but I couldn’t find it now. It exists somewhere):
I don’t think Biden was offended by Yuval Dayan.
Lately it’s been reported that after speeches he stretches out his hands into the air; they attributed it to his senility, that he sees people who don’t exist.
So presumably this time too, when Yuval didn’t extend her hand to him, he chalked it up to senility — he figured she probably exists only in his imagination, and therefore he wasn’t offended.
So there’s no problem here at all.