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Q: I want to be a cheerleader
when I grow up. My mother wants
me to be a doctor. If you could
provide me with the
names of some for-
mer Jewish
cheerleaders
who have made it
really big, maybe
she would be
more sympathetic
to my aspirations.
A: Rah, rah, sis
boom bah! You've
got something to
cheer about, hoo-
rah!
There are a num-
ber of Jews who were cheerlead-
ers in high school or college,
starting with Detroit's own
Gilda Radner. Others on that
presitigious list: Dyan Cannon,
Eydie Gorme, Jerry Lewis, Dinah
Shore and Carly Simon. Go,
team!
Q: What does Judaism say about
capital punishment?
A: The Torah and Talmud dis-
cuss the subject at length and, in
rare cases and with many stip-
ulations, support its usage.
First, it is applicable only for
murder, blasphemy, desecrating
the Shabbat, kidnapping, witch-
craft, dishonoring one's parents
and sexual crimes like incest.
There must be two witnesses
to testify to the crime. The ac-
cused must have been told at
least twice both that his actions
were wrong and that they could
result in death. A court of judges
must try the case.
The Torah mentions three
kinds of capital punishment —
stoning, burning and hanging,
while the Talmud cites strangu-
lation.
Stoning was the most-often
prescribed method of death, but
not in the way most people imag-
ine. The Talmud specified that
the condemned should be pushed
to his death in a "stoning place"
— neither too high (so the body
wouldn't be mutilated) nor too
low (so that death would be in-
stantaneous).
Burning is to be used only in
the case of adultery by a priest's
daughter and in certain instances
of incest. Because Jewish law
does not permit descration of the
body, though, rabbis devised a
system whereby a burning wick
was tossed into the guilty party's
mouth — amounting, essentially,
to strangulation.
Yet anyone looking for reports
of the death penality used in Jew-
ish communities at any time in
history would be hard-pressed.
There is not a single incident of
a Jew being burned or strangled
or killed with a sword, and many
speculate that 99 percent of the
discussions about ways to im-
plement the death penality nev-
er were meant to be anything
more than that: discussion. In
fact, rabbis from throughout his-
tory have argued for abolition of
capital punishment.
Interestingly, the State of
Israel does have the death pen-
alty — but only in cases of trea-
son during war and of genocide.
The prescribed method of execu-
tion: soldiers are to be shot and
all others hanged.
The only man executed in Is-
rael was Nazi Adolf Eichmann,
who was hanged to death on May
31, 1962.
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