There are those who posit the strike and staggering debt crippling the Hadassah Medical Organization are ‘mida k’neged mida’ for the so-called ‘Meah Shearim mom’ case involving Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
The harshly worded pashkavil speaks of the “axis of evil at Hadassah” and affiliated university. It continues “the world is not hefker” and now they are being punished for what they did to the mother.
The Meah Shearim mother was first believed to be a victim of Munchausen by proxy, believed to have intentionally harmed her child to receive attention. Eventually, years after the ordeal began, which involved the mother being separated from her children for prolonged periods of time, a deal was reached with the prosecution and a Jerusalem District Court justice ruled she was not going to be sentenced to prison.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Not nice. The amount of lives saved daily at Hadassah must outweigh the bad.
It’s a good hospital and the people need it. Rather than point fingers lets daven that mashiach should come and the sick should be cured, and the need for hospitals should be eliminated.
“The Meah Shearim mother was first believed to be a victim of Munchausen by proxy, believed to have intentionally harmed her child to receive attention.”
Your article is misleading and helps to fuel paranoia. Are you trying to say that the mother was not suffering from Munchausen by Proxy. If you are privy to such information than expose it.
“Eventually, years after the ordeal began, which involved the mother being separated from her children for prolonged periods of time,”
You are trying to create pity for the mother. What about pity for the children. Do you know that the children weren’t being harmed?
“a deal was reached with the prosecution and a Jerusalem District Court justice ruled she was not going to be sentenced to prison.”
That does not mean that she was not harming her children. All it means is that the police felt that there are more effective ways to deal with her condition than putting her in prison.
As for the Midah Kneged Midah people. What is the Midah Kneged Midah for those that publicly desecrate the name of Hashem by rioting, burning garages and destroying public property in “defence” of this women.
Those who pretend to “know” such things are idiots.
יש דין ויש דיין
But who are we to say what it is.
Those who READ, notice or pay any attention to the Meah Shearim notices need to get a life!!!
It’s a propaganda tool & the printing presses bring in big bucks with nice looking salaries to those who hang them on the wall. It is nonsense and hogwash..
Those of you in chuz l’aretz didn’t hear the whole story. The mother requested that they remove the feeding tube so that the boy could start eating from his mouth again. They refused so she removed it herself, thereby being called the “starving mother”.
The police were called and put handcuffs on her hands and feet! They took her to a prison outside of Jerusalem and threw her into a cell with lowly convicts. She was five months pregnant. Was such treatment necessary? Couldn’t they have put a restraining order on her while they investigated the case?
The nurses on the floor staged a half day strike in protest against this unnecessary bad treatment she received, saying that she didn’t do anything so bad as all that.
Also, the mother accused them of giving him anti- cancer drugs-he didn’t have cancer, and they said these drugs are used for other conditions as well. When the family lawyer stepped, he found that the computer had been erased and no mention of these drugs.
Us people in Chutz La’Aretz heard the story well and good.
Public officials saved a family from the clutches of a disturbed and dangerous woman. For this act of chessed, which is of course also a mitzvas asei of Lo Saamod Al Dam Rey’Echa, they were vilified and abused by people who care nothing for human lives, only for politics. This parallels the story of the recently released menuval who calls himself a Rebbe.
That’s a Lav, not an Asei, obviously. D’oh.