http://morethodoxy.org/2012/08/01/sports-and-the-many-sides-of-silence-by-rabbi-avi-weiss-and-rabbi-aaron-frank/ Mon, 13 May 2013 19:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://morethodoxy.org/2012/08/01/sports-and-the-many-sides-of-silence-by-rabbi-avi-weiss-and-rabbi-aaron-frank/#comment-4456 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:20:51 +0000 http://morethodoxy.org/?p=1492#comment-4456 As a Jew living in London, this article seems to me a complete misreading of the situation and has a sense of special pleading uniquely for tragic loss of the Israeli athletes. It seems to fail to take into account that during the opening ceremony there was the inclusion of a moment to remember all the victims of terrorism and not just the Israelis. The day after London won the right to hold the Olympics, bombs went off on the underground rail system and on a bus, killing 52 people and injuring 700 others. This was a more recent and greater loss then those murdered in Munich. Rabbi Weiss seems to have ignored, or been ignorant of this aspect of the proceedings. The blood of non-Jews is not less red than those of Jews. The Olympic Committee did not ignore the requests that were made, nor were they silent, nor was the supposed silence an act of complicity, or support for terrorism, as Rabbi Weiss suggests. The Olympic Committee and those who organized the opening ceremony had a different idea and a different way of remembering all the victims and they should be congratulated rather then condemned for doing so.

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