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What I’ve Been Up To Lately
- mazel tov to @bluenatic and @grandstreet on the birth of their baby girl 2 weeks ago
- RT @JTownCrier: Tropper? Kolko? Margulies? Balkany? Dwek? Rubashkin? NO. Moetzes Gedolei Torah condemn AVI WEISS as more offensive. 2 weeks ago
- Rorschach from Watchmen is the new Freddy Krueger http://bit.ly/7s61Cj 2 weeks ago
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The Greater Chillul Hashem
So Jewsweek ran my recent dvar on Bush and lifnei eiver. Gotta love the feedback:
DanYour article on George Bush was a true chillul Hashem. You wouldn’t know Torah or Halacha if it hit you over the head. How dare you try to use the Torah to support any candidate. As chazal has taught us, “You can take halacha and make it into avodah zorah, by twisting it for your own agenda.”
You are a despicable, pathetic little man who doesn’t have a clue about morality. I do not care that you are supporting the wrong candidate who called the security fence “a barrier to peace.” But to misuse the Torah for your own stupid/selfish agenda is the ultimate in arrogance. I hate people who misuse our holy Torah for their vile agenda. I only hope that your parents are dead so that they do not have to see the monster that they brought into the world.
I suggest you read a well thought out article to show what a moral retard you truly are.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_5429.shtml
Shame on you.
Rosanne Shrivnauth
Vice President
The America + Israel Group
333 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Here’s what I’ve written back:
Did I twist Torah, or rather simply recite what the Talmud states and apply it to the circumstances of Bush’s case for war in Iraq? And did I support his opponent anywhere in that exegesis, or did I simply state why he is in violation of the laws of lifnei eiver? Finally, which is a greater chillul hashem, to present one’s understanding of Torah, even if it is a misunderstanding, or to curse a person for doing so?Concepts such as ahavat yisrael, v’ahavta l’recha k’mocha, and b’tzelim elokim are apparently lost on you. And to present yourself as a “superior” Jew in the absence of these values, madame, is a far greater chillul hashem than holding our leaders to the laws of the Torah in a way which does not conform to -your- political agenda.
But rather than wish you ill, as you have done me, I offer the hope that you can do t’shuva at any time, and truly hope that the next time you are confronted with opinions with which you so strongly disagree, that you react in a manner which is more enlightened and enlightening.
Daniel Sieradski
Oh snap.
Funniest. Letter. Ever.
Hmm… While I totally disagree with your piece (you postulate certain things as facts that are, to say the least, debatable)… this person is a nutjob. Unfortunately there are those on the right and left who can’t take criticism and this would be one of them. BTW, what is the America and Israel group. My response to her would be that hte Torah commands aliya so why is she still in galut?
To bed, to bed I said.
Well, at least now I’m sure who I’m going to vote for…
Howard Dean.
hey!
There is no listing for The America + Israel Group at 333 Park Avenue South, just as in all of Manhattan, there is no listing for the person who dissed you, at least not the way she spells it.
Look, I want to remind all of you that a former president of the conference of presidents of major american jewish organizations, a right wing Zionist, was the lead counsel for Generali, which just stiffed the Holocaust survivors royally. His strategy? He had them drop the class actions suits against Generali because it interfered with Bush’s foreign policy in Italy. whatever the ef that is. The guy gets his butt kissed from here to Timbuktu, when it should be kicked to Kingdom Come. (Does that have anything to do with The Rapture?)
Hey Dan, the beeatch and the organization don’t exist, at least according to the verizon operator. Have fun.
Remember the only people who called me a fucking nazi whore when I had my lonely and successful protest in the no-protest zone, were fat zhlubs wearing black velvet yarmulkes–out of the millions of people in NY, and the literally thousands who walked past my umbrella. Only the black velvet hebes called me names and made lewd statements. Which I answered by yelling at them they were making a chillul Hashem. You should have seen those fat butts running, literally running down the street when I nailed them. OOOOH, this beeatch spoke their lingo, and they couldn’t handle it. Run, boy, run. Ugh.
The fruits of my procastrination: here “Rosanne Shrivnauth” signs from e-mail address AmericaIsrael@bgwinc.com, which has no Web page but is registered to a 333 Park Ave S marketing firm, Bloch Graulich Whelan, of which Irwin N. Graulich has posted hawkish perspectives on the Arab-Israeli conflict all over the Web.
FWIW.
daymn, wishing a person’s parents dead is just not cool in any religion. god forbid anybody speak from the heart these days.
I get columns and releases from Irwin N. Graulich all the time. He harvested my email from the Jewsweek website, I must asume — complete nut jobs.
Wow, it’s one thing to disagree, but what human has a right to decide on the mortality of others? “I strongly disagree” along with a proper arguement would have done just fine, I’m sure. And on top of that, being a woman – and perhaps even a mother, what sensitivity, or sacredness of life do you posess? And calling Dan “a moral retard” while hoping death on his parents?? I think someone needs to seriously take a moment for personal reflection…
Funny website. I recommend checking out http://www.simpletoremember.co... Peace.
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