A tallit-and-tefillin-wearing woman in a traditional Conservative synagogue?! An unorthodox—and non-orthodox—perspective on Jews and Judaism from a perpetual misfit. This blog, welcoming the entire Jewish community, is dedicated to those who take Judaism seriously, but not necessarily literally.
posted by Shira Salamone at 11:29 PM
Once upon a time, I belonged to a left-wing egalitarian Conservative synagogue, where I was one of a number of women who wore a tallit—and one of the few members who used an Orthodox prayer book (adding the Mothers, of course). Having moved since then, I now belong to a right-wing traditional Conservative synagogue, where I’m almost always the only woman wearing a tallit—and one of the few members who adds the Mothers. I seem destined to be forever . . . on the fringe.
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It's the New York Post, writing a story on one of their favorite narratives: "The Government Can't Do Anything Right." So I am going to recommend you shelve your outrage for a bit.
For crying out loud they cite some random spot-interviewed plumber as an expert, when he is just another passenger.
Buried in the final inch of the story is the fact that the City is going to compel the contractor to remediate the problem without compensation. So this is going to get fixed at no cost to the taxpayers.
Why do they spend 7 paragraphs whipping readers into an outrage before quoting the only person who has any reason to know what he's talking about saying "Yonkers Contracting will foot the bill."
And then, to bury this they go on with more outrage language about why should something new need fixing, and when is it going to be done.
They do this because it is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has long had an agenda of starving out the government and whose Fox News you can thank in large part for the Trump candidacy.
How would you have reacted if the headline had been "City compels Contractor to remediate failures at waterlogged subway station?"
Maybe my complaint wasn't clear. I know that the problem is going to be fixed, and that we taxpayers won't be the ones paying for the repair. What I don't understand, though, is why such a major error occurred in the first place. How is it that no one in whatever city government agency supervised the construction realized that the ceiling hadn't been waterproofed?
Who says it wasn't? The spot-interviewed random plumber.
Don't overlook the possibility that waterproofing WAS applied, but was defective.
Someone is surely to blame for this, but that someone is not likely to be the City.
Well, I certainly that whatever party is (or parties are) responsible fix the problem and pay the literal, and, if necessary, legal, price.
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