Because the man did so much and said so much, there’s a tendency to cherry pick sections of his legacy to support one’s preferred narrative.
Criminal laws are written by legislatures. District attorneys are charged with enforcing them. They are required to uphold the rule of law, and not serve as the enablers of lawlessness.
From Pittsburgh to Poway to Jersey City to Monsey to Texas, with many painful stops in-between, American Jews are now accustomed to dead congregants, flashing police lights, and security whenever they go and pray.
Given my experience at the Hartman Institute, my relationships with its leadership, and my great esteem for the values the Institute carries, I was both surprised and horrified to read about a controversy involving it this past week.
The flyers were found at Grant Elementary School, McKinley Elementary School, Roosevelt Elementary School, Edison Language Academy, Will Rogers Academy, John Adams Middle School and Lincoln Middle School; the schools took down all the flyers by the end of the day. Police are investigating the matter.
Since the resolution’s passage, the PSC have “held chapter level discussions” that “encourage support for the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel BDS movement among rank-and-file members of PSC.”
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