This is a special High Holidays emergency edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN.

The tractate of the Talmud known as Yoma states that anyone asking for forgiveness before Yom Kippur must make at least three sincere attempts to make amends.

And if the wronged person does not grant forgiveness after these three sincere attempts, then the person asking forgiveness is effectively off the hook. They are no longer obligated to keep trying to force an outcome that the other person doesn’t want.

Michelle Stock, a vice president with CIJA said “the denial by Mayor Olivia Chow’s office that she was not invited is categorically false.” She shared with the Sun a copy of the invitation emailed to the mayor’s staff on Sept. 23, which said “I am writing to follow-up an email… pic.twitter.com/7Mtd4ulLDr

Two important lessons can (but likely won’t) be applied when it comes to the three-year-old Doorstep Postings column doing its duty of covering yet another big stupid political controversy that, as per usual in the Canadian way, has been boiled down to a dispute over etiquette. The first involves not seeking apologies or redress from someone who clearly can’t be bothered.

In the matter of the Official Jewish Community versus Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, the petition-rousing charges involve insufficient empathy displayed by the mayor in failing to attend the Oct. 7 anniversary vigil in North York, failing to issue a statement (a most serious crime of our times), followed by an increasingly ridiculous series of excuses for why she couldn’t be there. The invite got lost in the mail. She was tired after a........

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