Before I attended this years Israel Parade in NYC, I would have been surprised as well.
Since I had a "sign", the NYPD considered me a "protester" and told me where my "pen" was (in NYC, they like to "pen" us in)
I was in the pro-Israel "pen" and across from us were the hasidic Jews, along w/ the pro-palistine peeps, and a few mooslims calling the end of the Israel State.
In my pen were Jews (one from Israel) screaming across the street, in Hebrew, to the hasidics. Each time I asked them what they just said and they told me.....NOT very nice. Interbreeding and sleeping w/ whores were amongst some of the comments.
Oh, and the NYPD lady officer standing in front of our "pen" told us this year, the hasidics were tame. A couple of years ago they actually had signs to "bring back the ovens".
Not all Hasidics are like that. For a number of years, when I was a young woman working in NYC, I worked for Hasidic lawyers and their children. They were deeply kind to me although very demanding and hardworking. At lunch hour, they would gather together and pray.
I worked very hard for them and once I made a really bad mistake on a legal document. I can still remember the head of the firm standing over me saying: “Boy when you make a mistake, you really make a mistake!”
I loved working for them.
Unbelievable...what is up with that???