

Volunteers from the Shomrim community security group thwarted an attempted fraud in Golders Green last week. See JC Dec 28th re Shomrim (abridged version below) Guv Ost has done us a tremendous service. Meier 28 February, 2013 shame on you to decry Shomrim.

Gavriel may be under suspicion but it is this lot who are truly doomed. And let them delude themselves for never will they recognise the unpalatable truth that they are way beyond hope and redemption and there is nowhere for them to go but walk the plank.
#One step from eden ost skin
They will undoubtedly claim that Ost has acted in a Catholic manner and that true Da’as Torah mandates holding on by the skin of their teeth and the more intense the battle the greater the K iddush Hashem. But as we have learned to our cost, not only do these people have no vestige of self respect they do not even possess the modicum of sense to act in their own good and simply for their self preservation. He could then have tried to clear his name away from the limelight and without dragging everyone along with him.Īnd if he was not capable of such a momentous decision there should have been someone at the UOHC to tell him what was obvious to everyone but to the Dear Leaders. If only the main protagonist would have mustered the same dignity and courage and acted in a likewise manner, he would have saved the broader community, the UOHC, his own shul and followers, his family including his elderly father and, above all, himself the shame and disgrace that has justifiably been heaped upon them all. Alas, you would not have been living in Jewish London for the last half year if you harboured such thoughts. You may think that is not particularly remarkable and is exactly what any sensible person in his position would do. Arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, he had the good sense and decency to step down in the interim from his position as CEO of Shomrim North West while he fights to clear his name. Step forward the real “Angel Gabriel” Ost. Just when you’ve given up hope in our entire leadership along comes someone to restore your faith in humanity.
