Why Morals and Manners?

This title was originally chosen by a well meaning lady who wished to promote morals and manners via the Jewish Reporter. Unfortunately, although she had personally been through horrific behavior in her past, she chose to sit on the sidelines and let a terrible black hearted person wreak havoc on a cherished Jewish institution. Instead of standing up, as she had needed others to do on her behalf, she instead took that 'don't rock the boat' stance that saw her stand by while friends and acquantences suffered directly, the the entire Jewish community suffered by the loss of the services that the organization was designed to represent. This blog was left empty for quite a while as we wrestled with the quandry that dealing with bad people against letting them harm others while they did nothing. We have decided that she has failed in both the morals and the manners department by not taking action. This is poor behavior by all human beings, but particularly by Jews, who know too well the ramifications of good people looking the other way. So we will still look to be a vanguard for morals and manners. But madam, you have no right to preach about either so long as you indeed 'look the other way'.