If You Don't Publicly Condemn, Does That Mean You're Complicit?
"A lot depends upon who you are, who your audience is, how effective you are likely to be, and if you know what the Torah-prescribed route of action is"
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"A lot depends upon who you are, who your audience is, how effective you are likely to be, and if you know what the Torah-prescribed route of action is"
Some relevant parallels between what happened bayamim haheim and what we are living through bazman hazeh Gus is one of the fixtures of the neighborhood. Central casting couldn’t have chosen a better candidate to be the Barber of Lincolnwood. He’s a great schmoozer, name dropper (“Rabbi So-and-so was here yesterday”), makes house calls, and to top it all off, only charges $10, including beard trimming. When asked how he is doing, he always responds “Baruch Hashem,” despite being a heimishe Greek, born and bred near Athens. When our yeshivah advertised the annual dinner by hangin...