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Rickover quoted it in"The World of the Uneducated"(The Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1959) where he prefaces it with,"As the unknown sage puts ite.” There are variants attributed to others, as well.

2.Ibid. There is a tendency to regard the Talmud ’s adage as hyperbole, but the branding of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin z"] a boged(traitor) and rodef(pursuer whom one is obligated to kill before he commits murder) by a rabbi contributed to creating an atmosphere in which it was far more likely that someone would act on the“logic” and assassinate Rabin , as Yigal Amir did on November 4, 1995. See Moshe Zemer ,“Crime and Punishment in Jewish Law: essays and response,” W. Jacob and M Zemer (ed.) Studies in Progressive Halakhah(Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah, 1999), and Chaim Povarsky,“The Law of the Pursuer and the Assassination of Prime Minister Rabin, ” Dinei Yisrael 18(1995-1996), pp. 7-59

3 Leviticus 19:16 instructs le teileikh rakhil b’amekha“Do not go about tale-bearing among[JPS: deal basely with] your people. Leviticus 25:1 7 more generally instructs, lo tonu ish et amito v'yareita me-elohekha ki ani Adonai Elohekha“Do not wrong one another, but fear your God ; for I the Lord am your God .” Tradition has long identified such“wrong doing” with gossip and tale-bearing, including statements that humiliate, insult, deceive, or cause emotional distress to another person. The Bavli, in masechet Baba Metzia 58b boldly interprets lo tonu ish et amito overreaching in buying and selling— as applicable in the realm of spoken social intercourse, i.e. verbal wrongs. Numerous examples are given in the Mishnah , which are repeated and elaborated upon in the Gemara, and illustrated by an extended aggadah in which we learn that even God can commit the verbal violation of fonu ish.

4. In the weeks following Clementi’s death, many people noted that three other adolescents— Billy Lucas, 15; Seth Walsh. 13: and Asher Brown, 13— took their lives in response to taunting and bullying related to their real or perceived homosexuality. While Tyler Clementi’s case is related to these because the harassment he suffered concerned sexual orientation, the use of the Internet to publicize his private behavior distinguishes this case for our purposes.

5.0wen documented highly personal information about basketball, lacrosse, and tennis players, including photographs, scores, and sexual ranking.

6.1 received it from one congregant, wrote back providing documentation that it was a hoax, and received it again from the same congregant two months later. This testifies to how casually people forward hoaxes, lies, and inaccurate“information” without taking the time to examine and vet it, and even failing to note when others