mamale, i agree with you that if frum Jews are in the news we are all guilty by association. And I think that is part of why i get so frustrated when people are indeed guilty of these types of things. Didn’t they know the repercussions? Didn’t they know how many of us would suffer?
But that is where I try to be dan l’kaf zchus. I believe they did not know they were throwing us all under the bus just as I too am blind to my own wrongs.
nisht, I hope you weren’t referring to me, I surely don’t assume anyone is guilty, but i also admit i don’t assume that nobody is guilty. and maybe some of you see that as wrong, but i am not judging them, i am not speaking ill of them or wishing bad on them. i am assuming they thought they could beat the odds. However it doesn’t change the fact that I have to be judging fairly AFTER the fact. Best would be if we didn’t have our names in the news in the first place. and if we can daven that people don’t try to cover the facts with lies we wont make a second chilul Hashem on top of this one.