The Randolph School Committee member who made “hurtful” remarks to the school’s superintendent – as reported HERE on YW – resigned from her post, she announced in a joint statement with a town rabbi. In the letter, Maureen Kenney acknowledged that her comments made to Superintendent Richard Silverman were “hurtful” and begged for forgiveness from the community.
The remarks were reportedly made during a closed-door meeting to negotiate Silverman’s contract extension when she took offense to his request for five-day paid bereavement leave.
“It is not the standard in the industry. Besides, don’t you Jews plant them within 24 hours?” she reportedly said in that meeting.
“I don’t see any side curls on your head, so why do you need five days of bereavement leave for?” she added.
(Source: AP)
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GOOD!! Hope she confesses her sin of anti-semitism like a good Irish-Catholic should when she goes to church tomorrow.
She did the right thing in apologizing and resigning as her remarks were certainly insensitive and ill-considered, though, again, I find it interesting that she questioned his level of observance in her remark, seeming to indicate that is he were more observant that she would not have made the same “claim”.
#2,
This idiot wouldn’t know observant Judaism if it smacked her in the face, she based her decisions about his observance on her own ideas, as is expressed by her comment about ‘side-locks’, she seems to think observance is all about a style of dress and other externals. I don’t think it’s right that she can get away with merely resigning, she should have some legal action taken against her.
#3
She did the right thing. You don’t get sued for saying something hateful. You just step down if that hate does not represent your constituents. She stepped down now, and that was the right thing to do.