Comments on: Atlanta Jewish Times Publisher Resigns After Suggesting ‘Hit’ On Obama

By: PBT

PBT — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:16:49 +0000

@proud orthodox jew: I did see the Satmar rebbe’s comment. I couldn’t have said anything better than he did. I’m just sorry that so many out there think that intemperate speech about the President is some sort of Torah mandate.

By: voseppes

voseppes — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:38:33 +0000

WE ARE IN GALUS! We should NEVER talk like he did!
Sixty years ago, at the same time that Stalin was murdering Jews for being “capitalists;” in America, Jews were suspected of being “communists.”
I don’t agree with a lot of what President Obama says, but he is our elected leader, and he deserves our respect AND our condemnation of any such talk.

By: proud orthodox jew

proud orthodox jew — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:22:16 +0000

@PBT Recently one of the Rebbes, I think it was Satmar, made a statement about how we talk to, and about a president and he was attacked for it. People were saying that he’s pro-Obama, but thats not what he said. His point was simple, there is a way to address and speak of a man in such power.

By: Git Meshige

Git Meshige — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:21:42 +0000

Resigned? He should be arrested. If his name was abdul Mohammad, he would be in jail already

By: Guter yid

Guter yid — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:16:01 +0000

What a disgraceful and stupid comment in an editorial, and he still calls himself jewish, he did the right thing by stepping down.

By: eric55

eric55 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:43:40 +0000

He was not advocating the assassination of the president if he was he would be behind bars now, he was merely discussing different scenarios of what is possible to play out sort of like a fiction article

By: PBT

PBT — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:35:46 +0000

Good. An article advocating the assassination of a President has no place in decent society. We’ve got a democratic election process through which Mr. Obama won the presidency, and that’s how he should be voted out if his policies are no good. I also think it’s about time for some shiurim about how we should speak to or about the President and others in positions of governmental authority. Our parshios of this, and the two prior weeks, show Moshe Rabbeinu choosing his words so as to not denigrate royalty, despite that his opponent was a rosha of the first degree. We need to translate that into how we behave in our time.