http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/murder-is-bad-by-committee/ I’m not telling tales out of school when I reveal here that about 99 percent of my time (okay, exaggeration - but a slight one) is spent dealing with Jewish groups wanting more JTA inchage. ("But how could you not know that we’re recognized international experts on Andorran narco-terrorism!")   My problem with this is that these folks take an age to get their statements out. (There are exceptions.) When I point this out, I get sheepish, "well, we had to run it by the board" replies.   Last night, I got a flood of replies from non-Jewish groups condemning the murder of Dr. George Tiller, one of the few remaining physicians to provide late term abortions in the United States - and within hours of the assassination taking place in Tiller’s Wichita church.   These groups and institutions also have boards and bureacuracies - chief among them, the White House, where President Obama has been known to be especially cautious on the abortion issue - and yet somehow managed to say the right thing within hours of the attack.   This would seem a no-brainer - yes, kids, shooting someone dead in a place of worship is a bad thing - but the Jewish reactions are trickling in only now. And it’s not as murdering an abortion provider does not have Jewish resonance - Barnett Slepian was murdered in 1998 not  long after welcoming in Shabbat.   Anyway, in the spirit of better-late-than-never, here are the Jewish reactions, in order of their arrival: The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, attributed to Dr. Cheryl Gutmann, Chair of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism: en-us rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-06-02T;00:08:01-05:00