Covering the #Meron tragedy from a media perspective is very tough, far tougher than you can imagine. You want to convey the depths of pain while not tearing at wounds that have already started to heal a week later. My assumption is that each paper will have a different focus.... Probably all assur to read on Shabbos this week. tweet from -Yochonon Donn, Journalist. member editorial board of various papers.
Yated Editorial:
"When I was a bochur learning at Bais Medrash Govoah in Lakewood, a fellow bochur had an asthma attack one night as he was sleeping. He did not survive. Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen, then also a bochur learning at Bais Medrash Govoah, was a close friend of the niftar and he was very broken. He lived on the Lower East Side and had a special relationship with Rav Moshe Feinstein. Simcha Bunim turned to the gadol hador for chizuk “Rebbe,” he said, “ich bin tzubrochen. My friend passed away suddenly and I am broken. I need chizuk.”
“Simcha Bunim,” Rav Moshe said to him lovingly, “Ah Yid vert nit tzubrochen. Ah Yid vert besser. A Jew doesn’t get broken. A Jew becomes better.”
How do we react to tragedy? Not by becoming broken. We are maaminim bnei maaminim. We are people of faith. We know that nothing happens by itself. Everything that happens is because Hashem willed it so for a greater purpose than we can understand. The Yiddishe way to react to tragedy is by improving ourselves, by becoming better. Yachshir maasov kefi kocho.
“Ah Yid vert nit tzubrochen. Ah Yid vert besser.”
My daughter picked up the Mishpacha and read and cried. Then she declared, "definitely not for Shabbos reading!"
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