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"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



5 Oct 2010

What's more important?

In late August, two events occurred.
A drunk man urinated inside/outside a mosque in Queens on prayer rugs/ not on prayer rugs, shouted anti-Muslim slurs/ no he didn't - get the picture? Depending on which report you read, a very different picture emerges as to what happened. A WPIX report which has the http address breaks-into mosque reports that a man urinated outside a mosque.
The accompanying video in the article is very elucidating.
Read full story: http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-man-breaks-into-mosque,0,3976023.story

A FoxNews report quotes from a NYPost article stating that "A drunk man barged into a mosque in Queens, N.Y., and shouted anti-Muslim slurs before urinating on prayer rugs.."
Read full story: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/queens/drunk-man-screams-anti-muslim-slurs-urinates-in-mosque-newscore-20100826

However, if you read the NYPost article, the part about shouting anti-Muslim slurs is nowhere to be found.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/drunk_desecration_at_mosque_fA7FZKYh59hx3Bjika6UGN

Be that as it may, a woman rabbinic student decided to collect money for the prayer rugs that were either urinated upon or not and raised over 1000 dollars.
That same week, another event occurred.
Four Jewish civilians were murdered in a shooting attack at Bani Naim junction, including a husband and wife who left behind six orphans.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/139426

INN published an article titled Fund Created for New Terror Orphans
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/139473

I meant to write a post about how the rabbinic student found it more important to raise funds for prayer rugs than to be concerned about funds for orphans but never got around to it. Yesterday, Daniel Greenfield wrote an article about the same subject.
"And so we are witness to the spectacle of an enlightened post-modern era, in which Jewish liberal clergy have decided that soiled rugs have more personhood than Jewish orphans."
Read full article: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/10/muslim-prayer-rugs-and-jewish-orphans.html

If you would like to donate to the fund to provide money for the Imes children, please contact Rabbi Richman at rabbirichman@gmail.com.

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