A Letter from Toulouse
This
past week, as many Americans contemplated the tragic death of Trayvon
Martin, I ask that you also contemplate the murder of Rabbi Jonathan
Sandler along with his two sons, six year old Aryeh and two year old
Gavriel at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, by the hate-filled
murderer Mohamed Merah. He murdered this family for one reason, hate.
Yet, Mrs. Sandler, the surviving spouse and mother, wrote a beautiful
letter to all Jews urging them to do good in memory of the beloved
victims. I hope you will take some time to read her letter. Even if you
are not Jewish, the ideas and wishes in her letter can be translated to
all of our lives.
I do not believe it is religion that causes hate, but rather, the absence of practicing religion's basic concepts of loving thy neighbor and not doing to your neighbor what you would not want done to you.
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