The Haredim and Anti-Semitism

American Thinker.com ^ | June 19, 2020 | Mike Konrad

[Kaslin]

America is experiencing a developing crisis concerning anti-Semitism against members of the Haredic Jewish communities. It has already become big news in the northeast.

These Haredic Jews (also called Hasidim) are often called Ultra-Orthodox -- they do not like that term -- and so I will respectfully refer to them generically as Haredim (which means those who tremble before God).

America’s historically tolerant attitude toward the Haredim may be about to change. In the northeast United States, the spur is demography. Haredic groups have started to move into towns and -- for want of a better term -- take them over.

Once in the majority of a town, the Haredim -- who send their own children to private schools -- often get control of a school board and defund the schools to the fullest extent allowed by law.

The new [Haredic] majority on the board cut taxes and budgets, angering the public-school community. Some of the decisions they made -- to lease two public-school buildings to yeshivas, and then put them up for sale; to clean out the district’s reserve fund during a deepening recession -- provoked... outrage -- New York (2017)

Sometimes, the state has to step in, as in the case of East Ramapo, New York.

[T]he District’s non-Orthodox residents say the Orthodox board members have gutted the public school system and diverted money from public to private schools.

In 2014, the resulting decline of the District’s public schools led to the appointment by New York State of “monitors” to oversee the district’s finances. -- Times of Israel (2020)

Given the high birthrate of such observant Jewish communities, they quickly outgrow municipal boundaries, and are soon looking to move to adjacent towns. regulations.

[farming pharmer]

The war of the womb. Too bad Christians have forgotten about that.

[marktwain]

I have much sympathy for the defunding of what has become the public indoctrination system.

It has become a way to funnel tax dollars to the Democrat party.

[dljordan]

“The war of the womb. Too bad Christians have forgotten about that.”

They subverted the children starting many years ago.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

While secular Jews will always vote for Democrats, socialists and even communists; Orthodox Jews are perhaps finally realizing that voting for a party that favors antisemitism and Muslim radicalism, is perhaps not a good idea.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Great news!