Silence of the Ravs
Amazing.
Rabbi Ben Zion Twerski has to step down from a New York task force looking into molestation, because of the impact of Orthodox society on is family, and precious few are saying anything in condemnation.
What, do we now live in the former Soviet Union? Is this Argentina all over again when people were deemed missing?
The fact that Rabbi Twerski, a wonderful man and champion of the dispossessed, lives in fear, screams volumes about Judaism today.
It is a scream that is louder than the sound of the Shofar.
The behavior of our community is treif.
In fact, if we heard there was a bug in a leaf of lettuce, or a maggot in a piece of meat, all heck would break loose in the Jewish community. But, the intimidation of a man, a holy man, well it just isn’t as important.
I am asking that Baltimore area rabbis who have the guts, that they should from their bimas openly declare this action, this immature silent treatment as a shanda, one that cannot be tolerated by a faith community.
Our protests should be as loud as the calls from the Shofar.
Rabbi Ben Zion Twerski was wronged.
