I haven't quite known what to make of today's stunning revelations in Uvalde. The one thing that remains the same is that Border Patrol stopped the killer. But there was no school resource officer and the killer used an unlocked door.
There is a lot of speculation about police refusing to go in, or being too afraid, or adhering to some kind of protocol. Maybe not. Maybe they were stalling to evacuate as many children from other classrooms as possible. We don't know.
My default assumptions -- my bias -- is that police, especially armed police, will do the right thing in these situations; and that Texas police will show heroism. I don't know that we've seen convincing evidence otherwise. We still don't know.
But no one can fail to be moved by the fear and concern that parents were expressing as they urged the police to go in and were instead told to leave the area. Was there, in fact, a failure of leadership? We still don't know. We will.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
