What do we do when the news itself is unpalatable?
My phone rang one evening.
It was a prominent maggid shiur, and he was very upset. We’d run an article about a politician and detailed the positions he’d taken over the years, including some completely antithetical to halachah.
Why did you include that information, the maggid shiur wanted to know. This is a publication for people who strive to keep their homes and minds pure. How can you go there?
It was a disturbing call and I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
We hadn’t used explicit language — we never do — but by casually mentioning the policy, had we crossed a line? Had our fingers slipped off a vital moral compass?
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