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I wish I could find brave people who aren’t afraid of the politics, who don’t make hollow or artificial decisions. So many appearances, so many speeches, so many statements these days are politically orchestrated, tied into money and not done in the spirit of bravery and just plain old fashioned righteousness. Hillary Clinton drinks a shot glass of liquor to please the common white folks. Barak Obama all of a sudden wears an American flag pin. We write in this week’s Jewish Times about a Jewish student who is given a hangman’s noose. What is the response? “He was a behavior problem and deserved it.” The school’s head master actually told me that if I could get the parents to sign a waiver, he’d show me the child’s academic and behavior records. What kind of head master skill sets… read more

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ah.. the truth will set you free… a delightful passage from the book of JOHN… great jewish scripture dude..

Posted by Jack on 05/24/08 at 10:34 PM

yup…twist the facts, manipulate the truth, have a huge chip on your supposedly righteous shoulder….way to go Phil….you are a supreme example of journalism…I wish we all had a column to further our agenda.  Rhetoric is not reporting.  Keep your stuff on the op-ed page….just never call it news.

Posted by really? on 05/20/08 at 04:52 PM

Just wanted to add, the signing of the waver would be the parents choice, he was not offering it up for anyone to look at.

And once again, most of us are not justifying such an act, just denying it was anti-Semitism

Posted by Interested Reader on 05/19/08 at 10:57 PM

Phil, If they won’t tell the truth, look at the truth, acknowledge the truth, at least you ARE!—about sexual abuse of children, a private school’s shameful admin., sub-par community events and more.(how much money did the Assoc’d system spend on that event, anyway? Was it solely underwritten by the law school? I’d like to know—the truth!.)  Presenting truths others turn from—That must be what drove you to become a journalist. That is why we need a free press. That is when journalism fulfills its highest principles.  Keep up the good work at the JT.

Posted by Baltimore Ima on 05/16/08 at 10:33 PM

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