The rabbi who is neighbor to Mark and Patricia McCloskey speaks out: ‘They are bullies’
Aug 25, 2020 09:51:10 #
Trump, now the RNC, has empowered all the bullies in the world...
https://forward.com/news/national/453183/the-rabbi-who-is-neighbor-to-mark-and-patricia-mccloskey-speaks-out-they/?fbclid=IwAR05rFbZpcoMcSIecRCNfIB8ovg_53rMOC0SATHjgolSVs75aMuBK2hKAiY
When Rabbi Susan Talve heard that Patricia and Mark McCloskey would be among the speakers addressing the Republican National Convention, she decided she could no longer stay quiet.
“It’s so upsetting that they have a national audience,” Talve said. “It’s upsetting we make heroes out of people who h**e.”
The McCloskeys are Talve’s neighbors. Their property’s northern wall abuts the property of St. Louis’ Jewish Central Reform Congregation, where Talve is the rabbi.
The rabbi who is neighbor to Mark and Patricia McCloskey speaks out: ‘They are bullies’ by the Forward
Image by Karen Kotner
In 2013, the synagogue placed beehives along the wall to produce honey for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. One morning they found the hives destroyed and all the bees dead. Mark McCloskey had taken an ax or sledgehammer to them.
His issue? The fence between them sat six inches inside the McCloskey’s property line. The hives were his to wreck.
“He could have picked up the phone and said, ‘Hey, those beehives are on my property,’ and we would have happily moved them,” said Talve.
She said children at the synagogue wept when they heard the news of the hives. The synagogue maintains raised bed gardens on its property that supply some 2,000 pounds of fresh produce to a local food pantry, as well as pear, fig and apple trees.
“We were going to have our own apples and honey for Rosh Hashanah!” she said.
She said the McCloskeys didn’t contact the temple at all before lashing out.
Instead, McCloskey left a note threatening to sue the synagogue for damages if the shattered hives were not removed at once.
“Civility,” Talve said. “I’m willing to speak out now because there’s such a lack of civility that’s happening, and I don’t feel like I can be a part of that, and silence is complicity.”
Talve paused.
“They are bullies,” she said. “The fact that they’re speaking at the convention is a win for bullies.”
Judging by their remarks at the Republican National Convention Monday night, the McCloskeys clearly don’t see it that way. They are the victims of a Democratic-run city that lets lawbreakers run rampant.
“What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to you who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country,” Patricia McCloskey said to the convention.
“It seems the Democrats view the job of the government as protecting criminals from honest citizens,” said her husband.
When reporter Jeremy Kohler broke the story of the McCloskey’s anti-beehive rampage in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Talve confirmed what happened but otherwise refrained from speaking out against the couple.
https://forward.com/news/national/453183/the-rabbi-who-is-neighbor-to-mark-and-patricia-mccloskey-speaks-out-they/?fbclid=IwAR05rFbZpcoMcSIecRCNfIB8ovg_53rMOC0SATHjgolSVs75aMuBK2hKAiY
When Rabbi Susan Talve heard that Patricia and Mark McCloskey would be among the speakers addressing the Republican National Convention, she decided she could no longer stay quiet.
“It’s so upsetting that they have a national audience,” Talve said. “It’s upsetting we make heroes out of people who h**e.”
The McCloskeys are Talve’s neighbors. Their property’s northern wall abuts the property of St. Louis’ Jewish Central Reform Congregation, where Talve is the rabbi.
The rabbi who is neighbor to Mark and Patricia McCloskey speaks out: ‘They are bullies’ by the Forward
Image by Karen Kotner
In 2013, the synagogue placed beehives along the wall to produce honey for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. One morning they found the hives destroyed and all the bees dead. Mark McCloskey had taken an ax or sledgehammer to them.
His issue? The fence between them sat six inches inside the McCloskey’s property line. The hives were his to wreck.
“He could have picked up the phone and said, ‘Hey, those beehives are on my property,’ and we would have happily moved them,” said Talve.
She said children at the synagogue wept when they heard the news of the hives. The synagogue maintains raised bed gardens on its property that supply some 2,000 pounds of fresh produce to a local food pantry, as well as pear, fig and apple trees.
“We were going to have our own apples and honey for Rosh Hashanah!” she said.
She said the McCloskeys didn’t contact the temple at all before lashing out.
Instead, McCloskey left a note threatening to sue the synagogue for damages if the shattered hives were not removed at once.
“Civility,” Talve said. “I’m willing to speak out now because there’s such a lack of civility that’s happening, and I don’t feel like I can be a part of that, and silence is complicity.”
Talve paused.
“They are bullies,” she said. “The fact that they’re speaking at the convention is a win for bullies.”
Judging by their remarks at the Republican National Convention Monday night, the McCloskeys clearly don’t see it that way. They are the victims of a Democratic-run city that lets lawbreakers run rampant.
“What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to you who are watching from quiet neighborhoods around our country,” Patricia McCloskey said to the convention.
“It seems the Democrats view the job of the government as protecting criminals from honest citizens,” said her husband.
When reporter Jeremy Kohler broke the story of the McCloskey’s anti-beehive rampage in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Talve confirmed what happened but otherwise refrained from speaking out against the couple.
Aug 25, 2020 09:59:12 #
PeterS wrote:
Trump, now the RNC, has empowered all the bullies ... (show quote)
Democrat supporters have bern r**ting, burning, bullying , and maiming for months and your party does nothing. Yet, you want to complain about one incident that happened seven years ago. Such a hypocrit.
Aug 25, 2020 10:25:45 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
PeterS wrote:
Trump, now the RNC, has empowered all the bullies ... (show quote)
Has nothing to do with the situation they found themselves in. More Americans with arms will be fighting back soon. Hope you're out and about when it starts.
Aug 25, 2020 10:26:24 #
Liberty Tree wrote:
Democrat supporters have bern r**ting, burning, bullying , and maiming for months and your party does nothing. Yet, you want to complain about one incident that happened seven years ago. Such a hypocrit.
How would you like to go out back and find a bunch of beehives in your backyard?!
Aug 25, 2020 10:27:03 #
PeterS wrote:
Trump, now the RNC, has empowered all the bullies ... (show quote)
It’s more upsetting that they were confronted by r****rs and it was the McCloskeys who were arrested and charged. It’s easier to rope in two mild mannered w****s than a horde of mixed Marxists. This Rabbi may be the reason so many are anti-Semitic.
Aug 25, 2020 10:28:21 #
amadjuster wrote:
How would you like to go out back and find a bunch of beehives in your backyard?!
Agreed...
Seems pretty ignorant on the part of the Temple...
Aug 25, 2020 10:31:22 #
amadjuster wrote:
How would you like to go out back and find a bunch of beehives in your backyard?!
On my property without permssion. No thanks.
Aug 25, 2020 10:49:34 #
Your accusation is a "generalization" of a "specific." Is this skewed bit of logic based upon Talmudic t***h or is it based upon an ingrained hatred for "goys"? If "Jewish rabbis" are purposted to be "bright" because of their "learning" I would think that they would have enough sense to know the differnce between an attack on one's life as opposed to a mere dispute over "property imposition." By the way, where is your outrage over the "chaos" being brought on by these declared Marxist who are funded by the N**i George Soros? Some "rabbi" you are.
Aug 25, 2020 11:25:22 #
Liberty Tree wrote:
Democrat supporters have bern r**ting, burning, bullying , and maiming for months and your party does nothing. Yet, you want to complain about one incident that happened seven years ago. Such a hypocrit.
Ohhh they do something.~ incite, foster h**e and r****m, try to trash our Constitution, usurp it any way they can no matter how many times they go before the Supreme court of the United States and Lose... When they have forced Trump to take it up say on immigration, how many did they win???
Aug 25, 2020 11:39:28 #
Aug 25, 2020 12:58:47 #
JFlorio wrote:
Has nothing to do with the situation they found themselves in. More Americans with arms will be fighting back soon. Hope you're out and about when it starts.
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
Aug 25, 2020 13:12:56 #
TexaCan
Loc: Homeward Bound!
PeterS wrote:
Trump, now the RNC, has empowered all the bullies ... (show quote)
Even if this story is completely true, it has absolutely nothing to do with why this couple had the right to defend their home! In a court of law that testimony about a dispute over bee hives would not be allowed because it has no baring on this case of the protesters breaking through the gate onto the private property and the couple standing on their PORCH defending their home! This story is irrelevant!
Aug 25, 2020 13:17:17 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
This was probably a very liberal synagog since this was a lady rabbi (rabbiess?). Plus, I never heard of Jewish people keeping beehives for religious celebrations, either. Maybe they should have used a lions' carcass like Samson found? I thought I was pretty up on Jewish celebrations but this was a new one.
Aug 25, 2020 13:18:14 #
TexaCan wrote:
Even if this story is completely true, it has absolutely nothing to do with why this couple had the right to defend their home! In a court of law that testimony about a dispute over bee hives would not be allowed because it has no baring on this case of the protesters breaking through the gate onto the private property and the couple standing on their PORCH defending their home! This story is irrelevant!
Just like ol' Pete is.
Aug 25, 2020 13:32:09 #
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