Working for a media company, we get a lot of press releases. In the old days, people had to take the time to send or even fax them to you. Now, with a click of a button, thousands of releases are e-mailed with the click of a button.

This morning while pleasantly reading a New York Times story about David Gelbaum, I also checked my e-mail.

The story about Gelbaum, a little know philanthropist, was about how some recent financial constraints forced him to stop his multi-million annual gifts to several non-profits.  Over the past four years, Gelbaum has donated $380 million to the ACLU, Sierra Club and an organization that provides financial assistance to families whose loved ones are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

His main condition was adhering to Maimondes’ principals of the highest form of giving – giving anonymously. It wasn’t until after he had to stop giving did his name come out.

I’m reading about how Gelbaum is living such Jewish values like Tikkun Olam, making the world a better place.

Just then I got an e-mail release from the Westboro Baptist Church about their plans to “Picket Filthy Jews in Florida.”  It outlines the places where they’ll be protesting the non-believers in Christ.

This is the same group that pickets funerals of American soldiers who died in Iraq. They believe that we’re a nation of sinners (and non-Christ believers) so people in the military should be protested for fighting for this country.

I wanted to get angry at these people. But, I really just feel sorry for these losers. These are the same misguided people who flew in from Topeka, Kan. to picket the BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES. Only four people showed up, and they got lost and picketed a deli down the street.

Some of our staffers boned up on their bible reading to debate these people. But, how to you point out to the that the David Gelbaum or the Weinberg Foundations of this world do more good in one day, then any of this silly people to collectively in a life time?