Most of us live our lives in a small world consisting of friends and family, of jobs and hobbies, and some concern about the world though our daily life seems to devour most of our time and energy as well as interest. There are times, though, that a person must rise to a challenge and must choose the nature of his being. Is he/she going to be a person of moral conduct and attitude, one who tries to better the world, one who must reach beyond one's normal arc, or is one going to be a coward and take the easy way, the harmful way, the one where others are trod upon in order to advance one's own position in life. Work it right, and you, too, can be a hero.
Yesterday, a woman of the first order died and was buried in Jerusalem.
"The last surviving member of the Revisionist movement’s Jewish Military Organization (ZZW) to have fought during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was buried in Israel Wednesday afternoon.
Ziuta Hartman-Rutenberg, born in 1922 in Kielce, took part in the revolt against the Nazis as part of the underground group founded by members of the militant Jabotinsky Betar youth movement, which fought alongside the better known left-wing Jewish Combat Organization lead by Mordechai Anielewicz."
There are the heroes, the ordinary people who dare to do what others cannot, who rise to a level that is extraordinary. On the other hand, there are the cowards, those who are afraid of life, who have spent most of their lives in backrooms, in solitary jobs, with no or small families, few to care for or be cared by. It is safer if one does not open oneself to the love - and woes - of others. These are the people who snipe from the sidelines, who do not have the courage of a mouse and thus never commit themselves openly, using aliases and puppets, shills, to take the hits as well as give them.
I wrote yesterday of the nastiness of some people here in the Village and I must continue to do so today, for yesterday, "Fred", in one of his "pseudonyms" sent a comment that has nothing to do with the issues of the Village and was only meant to show nastiness, cause hurt, and actually just imprinted his viciousness even more. It did not strike the mark because it is so patently obvious in its lie and in its motivation, but it does serve to identify those whom we oppose, those whom we are trying to get rid of, out of office and out of the business of harming the Village. It is people like this who do not have the balls to write who they are, only using aliases and thinking they are "safe" from recrimination. Not so, you evil souls, not so at all.
Before I insert what was sent to me - and to Gerry - whose only connection here is that he is my husband, understand the truth of the matter. Less than a year ago, a man that Gerry admired, a man who has written books, a man respected in the world of scholars, a man with whom he had become close friends, died. That man was our rabbi, Rabbi Cohen. Every Saturday during the Rabbi's extended illness and affliction, Gerry would walk over in the afternoon to talk with him and his lovely wife, keep them company, was in touch with the children of the Rabbi and has taken it upon himself to help out Mrs. Rabbi, who herself is not physically well, when she is in the Village and speak often enough on the phone. So tell me, please, what other purpose could this moron have other than trying to hurt someone when he sent this comment. Unluckily for him, it missed its mark though it does illustrate the essence of what these people who hang around David Israel and Ed Black are. Here is what was sent - and I leave out the other lovely tidbits of the comments, for this was the dart that went astray, - "you and Gerry helped drive the last rabbi to an early grave with your behavior." Of course, he also had to add in that my family is ashamed of me. What an idiot, but the point is, that these comments have nothing to do with the issues at hand and are meant only to hurt, to harm and to be nasty.
This, people, is who rules the roost here in the Village and do not think that this nastiness and personality defects are only aimed at one or two targets. No! One cannot separate what is an intrinsic part of one's soul, of one's moral, or rather immoral makeup. Why do we allow them to continue in office, running their selfish government, their selfish and harmful administration? Why, because many of us just do not care, though after much hard work and abuse, the opposition is beginning to gain the upper hand and the present incompetents in office are running for shelter, disintegrating as we speak, not knowing what has hit them, what with blogs and protest and newsletters and downright disrespect for them and what they stand for and what they have done to the Village.
Isn't it time they were gone? Isn't it time to bar them from future terms until they have obeyed the rules of term limits and conflicts of interest? Isn't it time? Isn't it time?
You can help by voting on the my village blog for term limits.
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