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What Tisha B’Av Can Teach Us About AgriProcessors |
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| Is it time to make some sacrifices? | ||
 by Tamar Fox, August 8, 2008 |
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Tisha B’Av begins tomorrow night, and Jews all over the world will be fasting, reading the book of Lamentations, and thinking about the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem that took place almost two thousand years ago.
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But Tisha B’Av shouldn’t just be a commemoration of events that happened hundreds of years ago. Contemporary Jews have experienced plenty of major traumas, events that rocked the Jewish community, and changed the way we practice Judaism. Most recently, the raid on the AgriProcessors plant in Iowa, though certainly not as spiritually damaging as the destructions of the Temple, has had serious reverberations around the Jewish world. It has affected what we buy and serve and eat, and how we think about our treatment of our colleagues and those who work around us. It has changed our relationships with the world, both humiliating us -- as the poor behavior of our brethren is exposed to the world -- and forcing us to shape up and raise the standards we have for ourselves and those we support.
Ancient Jews brought sacrifices to the Temple: animals killed in the name of God. But the sacrifices were not enough. Prophets warned us that our behavior was as important as the sacrifices, and when we didn’t learn, the opportunity to bring sacrifices was taken away. Here we are, more than a thousand years on, and somehow we’ve fixated on kosher meat, and not on our own behavior. Maybe this experience, as difficult and upsetting as it is, will serve to remind us about what’s really important, and will reconfigure our priorities.
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WoolSilkCotton
A couple of recent editorials said it very well:
http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/071708/edcolRushToJudgment.html
http://www.forward.com/articles/13930/
Thanks to all on jewcy, jcarrot, and failedmessiah for staying on top of this. Hopefully we will soon see all the Rubashkins doing the 'perp walk' in handcuffs.
Anonymous
Really this indicates a serious problem in the Jewish progressive community and demonstrates that they have a self-hating issue. When you attack and hold your own to a standard that you don't with others then you come off smelling like shit.
WoolSilkCotton
So anyone who takes an orthodox criminal to task is either an anti-Semite or a self hating Jew?
We expect all businesses to obey the US laws regarding immigration, labor, worker safety, hygiene, and animal cruelty.
Companies run by previously-convicted felons like the Rubashkins are particularly in need of scrutiny.
Orthodox criminals know that prosecutors are reluctant to pursue them too vigorously, so as not to be accused of anti-Semitism. These orthodox maggots take full advantage of that fact. They also know that they will be protected by their religious leadership, who will circle the wagons on their behalf.
Soon, the Rubashkins will trade their black religious garb for prison stripes.
Anonymous
There you go again.
Shootingsparks
Jews never had the proverbial temple they are allegedly seeking to restore.
How you can all lie to each other, and the world about this baloney, being propagated as a reason to further marginalize the Palestinian people is truly mind boggling. It is a simple matter to research this topic, and a myth easily disproven.
I recommend the books by David Reed as a great place to start.
Akiva S.
i just love all the Shabbat driving, pork eating Jews critizing and pontificating about Jews who actually try to live a Jewish life albeit imperfectly. And oh Shootingsparks please go back into the crap hole you came from.
Tamar Fox
Akiva S--
I am shomeret kashrut and shabbat. And even if I wasn't I certainly have a right to criticize hypocrites.