Even Israel has big issues with the Haredi separatism.
Its anti-American separatism, inside the US.
Its not the Jewish faith at issue, but the supporters always throw that crapola against the wall to see if itcsticks. Drive through any area and see for yourself. THAT’S why thinking people object. It destroys entire areas, communities, the tax base and polical representation.
5 or 6 thousand block voting in a local election. You do the math.
Its the corruption, bribery, food stamp and medicaid explosion thats the problem
Not all Hasid neighborhoods are like this. Some in NW Baltimore are absolutely wonderful places to live (my friends lived there earlier and I knew every street in the hood).
They are also a bulwark against the spread of the black underclass that has ripped apart so many once safe and wonderful neighborhoods in NW Baltimore (I knew and played in every one of them, went to schools in several and dated girls from there. The neighborhoods were safe back then.
You could walk to shual, school, the neighborhood drug store for a Coddie and a Coke, play at the local bowling alley, and walk home safely after school or at night.
No way Josie that you can do that in the Forest Park/Liberty Heights/ Randallstown Road, and esp. Lower/middle and part of Upper Park Heights Avenue, even if you are carrying. Forget Gywn Oak Junction. Total loss, just north of North Avenue and Penn. Ave., some of the killing ground central areas of Baltimore. Once safe for my grandmother and mother/uncles. Now a dumping ground for victims of shoot-outs and drug gangs.