Friday, August 14, 2009
The Boston Globe has had a good time over the past week, now coming out with its third front page article on the Nadav Tamir controversy: Many-voiced Jewish community, Israeli dispute shows diversity. It appears that Nadav will be sticking around for awhile:
The Israeli government yesterday resolved its dispute with New England Consul General Nadav Tamir, clearing the way for him to resume his work in Boston. But he will return to a community still grappling with the lessons of the weeklong controversy surrounding him.
Tamir met yesterday in Jerusalem with Director General Yossi Gal, after being summoned to explain his leaked memo criticizing his own government for its rocky relations with the Obama administration. Gal chided Tamir for distributing the memo too widely, making a leak likely, and Tamir said he regretted his handling of the matter, said Yigal Palmor, Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Tamir did not receive a formal censure, Palmor said, and the meeting did not involve "anything like being scolded or reprimanded,'' contrary to reports in some Israeli media that Tamir had been censured...
The article focuses on the divisions that the controversy brought out within the community here in Boston. Our congratulations to friend Greg Margolin and the rest of the Russian community for showing the real diversity that exists out there, especially after so many of the establishment "leaders" had the extremely poor judgment to take sides in the controversy beyond simply a nod to Tamir on a personal level:
Although nearly 80 percent of Jews nationally voted for Obama, Jews who had fled the former Soviet Union opposed the Democratic candidate by as big a margin, noted Greg Margolin, editor and publisher of the Jewish Russian Telegraph. He said Russian Jews account for more than 50,000 of the Boston area's population of more than 220,000 Jews, yet they often weren't able to be heard on major issues.
"Today, there are two opinions in Boston where there used to be only one,'' Margolin said. "The left-wing monopoly on public opinion in Boston is broken.''...
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So says that story in the North Shore Jewish Journal: Consul General Reaches Out to Constituents After Memo Flap The uproar over Israeli Consul General Nadav Tamir's leaked three-page memo in which he criticizes the Netanyahu government blew over more... Read More
Russian Jews know what life is like under socialism, communism.
They don't romanticize socialism/communism as dumb leftist/socialist/progressive jews do.
That's why Russian Jews oppose socialism and communism.
G-d Bless the Russian Jewish community!
Similarly, Sephardic Jews know what life is like under Islam - that's why they oppose islamofascism.