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The ‘get away with it’ factor

the recent article in The New York Times and the consequent rise in public awareness about the abuses of Marc (Mordechai) Gafni, and about the effort to once and for all marginalize or eliminate him from public life, I am wondering about leadership. Not to mitigate the appalling, disturbing and cruel abuses of Gafni, but since an effort is being made to have him removed from the position of educator and leader, as he should be, it makes you question why some leaders’ egregious errors are overlooked while other leaders, despite their disturbing ways, remain untarnished. The will of the people seems fickle when it comes to choosing which leaders’ sins are acceptable and which are not. Again, not to glibly put Gafni and his […]
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Tehilla Goldberg

IJN columnist | View from Central Park


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