Tzedek-Tzedek

…The Town Council Meeting Bet Shemesh is a pretty humdrum place and, aside from the odd headline-catching demo by extremists against this that or the other...there’s not much happening for kicks around here. A friend who sits on the city council invited me to pass an hour or two at the routine council meeting yesterday. Well, whoah there!! Did I get bangs for the buck (admittedly, it was free) in terms of high drama! I should have suspected something, when I had to pass by a donkey, tethered outside the Town Hall building, while I sidestepped the plentiful evidence of its healthy appetite, piled and fly-infested on the pavement. Once I entered the building, and headed to the Council Room, I was puzzled why there were two policemen at the door as I walked in? The modest board room of the 1950’s Bet Shemesh town hall, was packed. The small air conditioning unit wasn’t designed for the combination of loads of people, and the hot day. Around the board table were around a d