Groveling Before Power - the O-U
- - - - by Akiva
Shemayah said... Abhor taking high office, and do not seek intimacy wit the ruling power.
Rabban Gamliel...Be wary of those in power, for they befriend a person only for their own benefit, they seem to be friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man in his hour of need.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi...Do not yearn for the table of kings, for your table is greater than theirs, and your crown is greater than theirs, and your Employer is trustworthy to pay you remuneration for your deeds. - Mishna, Pirke Avos, 1:10, 2:3, 4:5
The O-U, the Orthodox Union announced today that the Prime Minister of the State of Israel - the Hon. Ehud Olmert will address the opening session of the Biennial Convention of the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem on Wednesday, November 22.
In the words of my friend Shlomo Wollins of IsraelReporter.Com (with a little of my own editing and contributions)...
This man Olmert has sent thugs to smash brains of yeshiva students in Amona...his family are all founders or members of anti-Israel organizations. His son is same-gender oriented and living in Paris.
This past week he sent his horses to trample yeshiva students protesting the great Chillul Hashem, the Immoral Pride Parade which his government strongly suppported.
He is under investigation for 5-7 separate acts of financial or power corruption.
And not to mention his political aspirations are to throw 80,000-120,000 more Jews out of their homes in Israel central, Biblical and strategic highlands, and give it all to Israel's proven, sworn, and current enemies and murderers.
He is either insane or certainly a horrid Jew (or bought and paid for, or Erev Rav, or all the above).
It is a great disgrace that O-U associates itself with this man after his approving the Immoral Pride Parade in Jerusalem and sending his thugs to beat up kids with iron sticks who are protesting the Chillul Hashem (according to all the rabbis).
It may be time for O-U to do some teshuvah for its silence on Gush Katif by canceling this appearance. By having him appear now the O-U koshers the public flaunting of same-gender relationships (called an abomination in the Torah), corruption, the Amona bloodbath, Gush Katif, all by association. It further appears that O-U also supports the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Yesha (the Shomron and Yehuda, aka the West Bank) and the creation of a Palestinian State.
It us stunning that the O-U would associate with the upcoming (chv'sh) suicidal and cruel "convergence". What an insensitive and self-serving choice of speakers at this time. Doesn't O-U have a soul or conscience anymore, or it is just a stamp? Doesn't O-U need to stand up for Torah in more ways than just food? Supporting Olmert is opposing Torah and therefore Hashem.
We would suggest canceling the whole conference which likely accomplishes little, and give all the millions of dollars to the victims of the Gush Katif destruction who are wallowing in squalor with few helping. That would really make O-U special.
We must stand up for Torah and not try to white wash or cozy up to power. The Torah demands it, Truth demands it.
If the Orthodox Union is worthy of it's name, it must take action and reject Prime Minister Olmert as a conference speaker.
If you agree, you may express it to these O-U Contacts on their press release:
Conference Web Site - Here.
Nathan J. Diament, Director of Institute for Public Affairs
+1 202-513-6484; ndiament@ou.org
Stephen Steiner, Director of Public Relations
+1 212.613.8318; steiners@ou.org
Frank Buchweitz, Convention Information Contact
+1 212 613-8188, frank@ou.org
Rabban Gamliel...Be wary of those in power, for they befriend a person only for their own benefit, they seem to be friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man in his hour of need.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi...Do not yearn for the table of kings, for your table is greater than theirs, and your crown is greater than theirs, and your Employer is trustworthy to pay you remuneration for your deeds. - Mishna, Pirke Avos, 1:10, 2:3, 4:5
The O-U, the Orthodox Union announced today that the Prime Minister of the State of Israel - the Hon. Ehud Olmert will address the opening session of the Biennial Convention of the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem on Wednesday, November 22.
In the words of my friend Shlomo Wollins of IsraelReporter.Com (with a little of my own editing and contributions)...
This man Olmert has sent thugs to smash brains of yeshiva students in Amona...his family are all founders or members of anti-Israel organizations. His son is same-gender oriented and living in Paris.
This past week he sent his horses to trample yeshiva students protesting the great Chillul Hashem, the Immoral Pride Parade which his government strongly suppported.
He is under investigation for 5-7 separate acts of financial or power corruption.
And not to mention his political aspirations are to throw 80,000-120,000 more Jews out of their homes in Israel central, Biblical and strategic highlands, and give it all to Israel's proven, sworn, and current enemies and murderers.
He is either insane or certainly a horrid Jew (or bought and paid for, or Erev Rav, or all the above).
It is a great disgrace that O-U associates itself with this man after his approving the Immoral Pride Parade in Jerusalem and sending his thugs to beat up kids with iron sticks who are protesting the Chillul Hashem (according to all the rabbis).
It may be time for O-U to do some teshuvah for its silence on Gush Katif by canceling this appearance. By having him appear now the O-U koshers the public flaunting of same-gender relationships (called an abomination in the Torah), corruption, the Amona bloodbath, Gush Katif, all by association. It further appears that O-U also supports the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Yesha (the Shomron and Yehuda, aka the West Bank) and the creation of a Palestinian State.
It us stunning that the O-U would associate with the upcoming (chv'sh) suicidal and cruel "convergence". What an insensitive and self-serving choice of speakers at this time. Doesn't O-U have a soul or conscience anymore, or it is just a stamp? Doesn't O-U need to stand up for Torah in more ways than just food? Supporting Olmert is opposing Torah and therefore Hashem.
We would suggest canceling the whole conference which likely accomplishes little, and give all the millions of dollars to the victims of the Gush Katif destruction who are wallowing in squalor with few helping. That would really make O-U special.
We must stand up for Torah and not try to white wash or cozy up to power. The Torah demands it, Truth demands it.
If the Orthodox Union is worthy of it's name, it must take action and reject Prime Minister Olmert as a conference speaker.
If you agree, you may express it to these O-U Contacts on their press release:
Conference Web Site - Here.
Nathan J. Diament, Director of Institute for Public Affairs
+1 202-513-6484; ndiament@ou.org
Stephen Steiner, Director of Public Relations
+1 212.613.8318; steiners@ou.org
Frank Buchweitz, Convention Information Contact
+1 212 613-8188, frank@ou.org
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