An email was sent to all Rutgers University staff and students today telling them that Rutgers is lowering their flags to half staff in memory of 2 victims of terror who were connected with Rutgers. One of them is Ezra Schwartz HY”D, who had been accepted to Rutgers Business School, and was planning on attending next year, after his year in Israel.
Below is the text of the email:
Members of the Rutgers Community:
Today I ordered that the Rutgers University flag be lowered to half-staff to recognize the tragic passing of two persons affiliated with the University who were murdered by terrorists last week.
Anita Datar, a 1995 Rutgers College graduate, was killed by terrorists in the attack at the Radison Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali, that took 21 lives on Friday. She was in the African nation on a mission funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand and improve public health.
Ezra Schwartz, an 18-year-old resident of Sharon, Massachusetts, who had accepted admission to Rutgers Business School and was taking a gap year in Israel, died in an indiscriminate attack that took the lives of three people when a gunman opened fire on a line of traffic in the West Bank on Thursday.
Anita Datar had an enormously accomplished career and Ezra Schwartz had enormous potential. Their tragic deaths are a reminder to us all of the fragility of life and the urgent need for better understanding among us all.
Sincerely,
Robert Barchi.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Wow, much more than Obama did!
Just wondering!
Anita Datar was “killed by terrorist”
Ezra Schwartz “died in an indiscriminate attack”
Call the office of the Predient at Rutgers and ask them why when a jew is killed it is called “indiscriminate”?
#2, just a few lines above, it says “to recognize the tragic passing of two persons affiliated with the University who were murdered by terrorists last week” so even though later it is labeled more mildly (where it should not have been), they DO admit that both were murdered by terrorists. What bothers me more – by far – is the last sentence: “Their tragic deaths are a reminder to us all of the fragility of life and the urgent need for better understanding among us all.” THERE IS NO URGENT NEED to understand radical Islam – only a need to eradicate it. There is a need NOT to defend their desire to establish a worldwide caliphate and impose Sharia law on all of us.
#2 is spot on. When jews get killed it’s “indiscriminate”.
Indiscriminate? What? The terrorist was just firing at “anyone”? He was trying to kill jews!
#3, no need to call. Its Halacha. Eisov Sonei Es Yakov. Accept it. Until Moshiach comes it will be this way. No amount of pressure, boycotts, public outcry will change the Halacha. Every Yid should do Teshuva and better themselves. That will change it.
Let’s hope THE POTUS doesn’t find put about this. He may consider this unnecessary incitement and sign an Executive Order prohibiting further acts of intolerance of and bias towards the oppressed victims of the Israeli occupation.
It’s exactly the opposite. Anita Datar was killed by indiscriminating terrorist. Ezra Schwartz Hy”d was targeted because he was Jewish.
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Have rachmanus on the bleeding heart liberal.