Just noticed this post by the woman who drafted the letter to Mrs. Margaret Park that I posted on this blog a few days ago.
It's nice to read. Nice to see that our signatures made a bit of an impact.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Please read
I was alerted to a post on Matzav.com by a Mrs. Miriam Pearlmutter, who lives in Mrs. Margaret Park's neighborhood. Mrs. Park is the mother of deceased Florida Fish & Wildlife Officer Peggy Park, whom Mr. Martin Grossman was just executed for killing. Don't read the comments section if you just ate lunch.
Miriam Pearlmutter, I guess, was shocked at the amount of abuse and invective leveled at Mrs. Park from elements of the frum community. She composed this letter of deep regret and apology to Mrs. Park on behalf of the Jewish community to attempt to reverse this terrible chillul Hashem.
I urge EVERYONE who reads this to sign this letter. I don't think it makes a difference whether you believed in clemency or not for Mr. Grossman, or if you signed the petition itself to save his life. It certainly makes no difference at all that the harassment was probably (dear God, I hope) perpetrated by a miniscule segment of the Jewish community; that's not a fact that Mrs. Park, who has been grieving over her slain daughter for 25 years, is likely to realize. What she sees is that Jews are behaving abhorrently - and we need to correct that misrepresentation by showing her the humanity and sensitivity that Judaism demands, whatever the positions we had on the clemency appeal itself. I admit, the letter is a bit slanted towards the "no clemency" camp. I don't think that matters though - that's not the point of the letter. I think we all know what the point is and what we can accomplish.
Please sign the letter. Mrs. Pearlmutter has given us an opportunity as a community to right our wrongs.
http://matzav.com/a-letter-to-mrs-park
Miriam Pearlmutter, I guess, was shocked at the amount of abuse and invective leveled at Mrs. Park from elements of the frum community. She composed this letter of deep regret and apology to Mrs. Park on behalf of the Jewish community to attempt to reverse this terrible chillul Hashem.
I urge EVERYONE who reads this to sign this letter. I don't think it makes a difference whether you believed in clemency or not for Mr. Grossman, or if you signed the petition itself to save his life. It certainly makes no difference at all that the harassment was probably (dear God, I hope) perpetrated by a miniscule segment of the Jewish community; that's not a fact that Mrs. Park, who has been grieving over her slain daughter for 25 years, is likely to realize. What she sees is that Jews are behaving abhorrently - and we need to correct that misrepresentation by showing her the humanity and sensitivity that Judaism demands, whatever the positions we had on the clemency appeal itself. I admit, the letter is a bit slanted towards the "no clemency" camp. I don't think that matters though - that's not the point of the letter. I think we all know what the point is and what we can accomplish.
Please sign the letter. Mrs. Pearlmutter has given us an opportunity as a community to right our wrongs.
http://matzav.com/a-letter-to-mrs-park
Monday, February 22, 2010
One word comes to mind...
See this Youtube post.
I'm not going to say anything philosophical or theological about it - all have different opinions about what this signifies, is it right, etc. We can all debate about that separately.
I just bring it to everyone's attention to one historical word that comes to mind - I just found it humorous, that's all, and to show that history does repeat itself and IS important to study and understand...
Luddite.
I'm not going to say anything philosophical or theological about it - all have different opinions about what this signifies, is it right, etc. We can all debate about that separately.
I just bring it to everyone's attention to one historical word that comes to mind - I just found it humorous, that's all, and to show that history does repeat itself and IS important to study and understand...
Luddite.
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