NYT Likens Orthodox Jews to the Devil  In its Sunday, Oct. 27,
edition, the Times runs an opinion piece by Shmuel Rosner about
political battles in Israel over daylight saving time. Secular
Israelis favor a lengthier DST period. Ultra-religious Jews
favor a shorter DST period that ends before Yom Kippur.
Otherwise, it means an extra hour of fasting ("Israel Salutes
the Sun" page 11, Sunday Review) So far, so good, although
Rosner makes clear which side he favors -- the secular one
obviously. But it's an opinion piece; so he's entitled to his
opinion. What he's not entitled to but what evidently reflects a
deep-seated bias of Times editors is the last paragraph of his
piece that celebrates the current extension of DST beyond Yom
Kippur -- a victory for the secular side. "But at least one
prayer had been answered," Rosner writes. "Israelis had proved
once and for all that Yom Kippur is no excuse for turning the
lights too early in the fall, and that the country's majority --
which often bickers about ultra-Orth