
I attended a dinner a number of weeks back for an organization that is based in Israel, I know that a number of people who read this blog were in attendance as well. When it came time to say the tephilah for the MIAs the Rabbi who read the tephilah added the name of Jonathan Pollard into the mix. I was incensed. How dare you besmirch the name, sacrifice and blessed memory of these heroes who sacrificed their lives for the holy land by linking them with this treacherous criminal who spied on his own country and put the lives of many people in danger for his personal gain? HOW DARE YOU???
Like I wrote a few months ago, for some reason Pollard, who, all things being equal is an embarrassment to our people is someone we should be distancing ourselves from, instead he has become our poster boy and is being billed (at least by NCYI) as the number one Jewish issue facing the Jewish people in America. The fact that they convinced R' Metzker to allow his name to be associated with this tephilah to begin with mocks the entire tephilah, but the plot thickens.
Matzav has posted an article about the drug smugglers being held in Japan and how their trial is coming up and we need to daven for them. Of course, as in the Pollard case, Pidyon Shevuyim is being thrown around and in the comment section where someone added the names of these criminals; someone also added the name of Jonathan Pollard.
It makes sense to link both of these together. In both cases people broke the law and were caught. In both cases they are serving prison time FOR BREAKING THE LAW, and in both cases people are screaming that it is anti Semitism and they are only being held because they are Jewish, and nothing else. These people's priorities are messed up. Don't glorify these criminals and blame anti Semitism for their breaking laws. Anti Semitism had nothing to do with these guys in Japan SMUGLING DRUGS and it had nothing to do with Jonathan Pollard choosing to spy on his own country, and I personally do not care what the reason was. Stop with the insanity already.
Stop saying these criminals in Japan are our modern day asara harugei malchus, as Kupat Ha'Ir claimed in their glossy mailing, and stop associating our holy soldiers with Jonathan Pollard. What kind of a lesson are we sending our children about right and wrong if we keep justifying the behavior of criminals and traitors?
Like I wrote a few months ago, for some reason Pollard, who, all things being equal is an embarrassment to our people is someone we should be distancing ourselves from, instead he has become our poster boy and is being billed (at least by NCYI) as the number one Jewish issue facing the Jewish people in America. The fact that they convinced R' Metzker to allow his name to be associated with this tephilah to begin with mocks the entire tephilah, but the plot thickens.
Matzav has posted an article about the drug smugglers being held in Japan and how their trial is coming up and we need to daven for them. Of course, as in the Pollard case, Pidyon Shevuyim is being thrown around and in the comment section where someone added the names of these criminals; someone also added the name of Jonathan Pollard.
It makes sense to link both of these together. In both cases people broke the law and were caught. In both cases they are serving prison time FOR BREAKING THE LAW, and in both cases people are screaming that it is anti Semitism and they are only being held because they are Jewish, and nothing else. These people's priorities are messed up. Don't glorify these criminals and blame anti Semitism for their breaking laws. Anti Semitism had nothing to do with these guys in Japan SMUGLING DRUGS and it had nothing to do with Jonathan Pollard choosing to spy on his own country, and I personally do not care what the reason was. Stop with the insanity already.
Stop saying these criminals in Japan are our modern day asara harugei malchus, as Kupat Ha'Ir claimed in their glossy mailing, and stop associating our holy soldiers with Jonathan Pollard. What kind of a lesson are we sending our children about right and wrong if we keep justifying the behavior of criminals and traitors?

