Lisa Cynamon Mayers wrote on Oct 9, 2024: "I have been a loyal Penzeys Spices customer for many, many years. Last night, Penzey’s sent an email that included a lot of stories and musings from company owner, Bill Penzey,
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but it also included an alarming paragraph about Israel and October 7. This is my response.
Dear Bill,
I spent last night tossing and turning, wondering how I would respond to your email. I have been a loyal Penzey's shopper for fifteen? eighteen? years.
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Dear Bill,
I spent last night tossing and turning, wondering how I would respond to your email. I have been a loyal Penzey's shopper for fifteen? eighteen? years.
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I will no longer be after this most recent email.
You wrote: "Yesterday was the 10.7 anniversary. 10.7 was nothing short of monstrous. It was designed to get Israel to show itself to the world. If only it could have waited to respond.
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You wrote: "Yesterday was the 10.7 anniversary. 10.7 was nothing short of monstrous. It was designed to get Israel to show itself to the world. If only it could have waited to respond.
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If only it could have shown its better self. Weep for 10.7 and for every day since, and for the world that could have been."
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What you wrote about October 7 and Israel is so deeply offensive I feel sick to my stomach. As an American Jew, the safety of my family and friends in Israel has been at the top of my mind since October 7.
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That you chose our day of mourning to write an offensive political message is beyond words. How do you think a country should react when they are bombarded by missiles, attacks, rapes, murders, stabbings, kidnappings and beheadings on a daily basis?
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How can you sit on your high horse and claim that Israel should have responded in another way?
I hate war. I hate death and fighting and loss of life. It grieves me that so many innocent people have lost their lives throughout the Middle East conflicts.
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I hate war. I hate death and fighting and loss of life. It grieves me that so many innocent people have lost their lives throughout the Middle East conflicts.
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My faith guides me to seek peace and justice and kindness and love, everything you supposedly stand for. Your short paragraph rocked me to my core and I will no longer set foot in our Cleveland Penzey's store.
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Maybe it makes you feel good to write the things you do but you shattered me when I read that paragraph yesterday.
Goodbye Penzey's. Thanks for the memories, especially this last one that tastes so foul no spice mix will correct it.
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Goodbye Penzey's. Thanks for the memories, especially this last one that tastes so foul no spice mix will correct it.
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