Reply To: Jewish "Telemarketing"

“I don’t like the billions of chinese auctions, the phone calls, the ninty letters per day-i even find it very hard when i am downstairs doing laundry to run upstairs three times because the meshulachim think they will do better if they come separately.”

Thank you! This is what I’m talking about…!! It’s not that I don’t want give to Tzeddakah (when I have what to give that is!). It’s the means by which they go about it that frustrates me. I don’t want them to call me at all hours of the day. Don’t clog my phone line! Don’t HARRASS me to give money, buy raffle tickets, GO VOTE (I forgot to mention that one! By far the worst!!), go to your sale, your auction, your dinner, production, etc! Hang posters, send letters in the mail if you want to, but please, please have some respect! A little “menchlichkeit” can go a long way!