The golem is necessary because no victory is ever permanent — and because when the reversal comes, it can be swift and deadly. History has seared this lesson into the Jewish people. But Americans cannot seem to remember it. Again and again, we search for the moderate streak in the extremist, tell ourselves we can find common ground with people who are explicit in their desire to do us harm. And so we get caught flat-footed when books are banned, when gay and trans people are brutalized, when antisemitism is mainstreamed, when abortion rights and voting rights are snatched away.
bfj wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:41 pm
Tunnel was built during COVID lockdown so these geniuses could get in to the synagogue and pray.
Ahhhh! For the life of me, I couldn't think of a reason why they'd do this.
The fucking Lubavitchers and their ilk get away with everything short of murder in New York. Want to get your blood boiling - read about their (publicly funded) schools.
And for the non-Jews here, these schmucks are our equivalent to hard core fundementalists
There's an NPR or Serial or something out there about how these folks essentially took over a NY town and its schools... Probably what Pru is referencing above.
It is MADDENING to listen to, so much so that I'm not sure I was able to get through the entire story.
You can lead a horse to fish, but you can't fish out a horse.
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:22 pm
There's an NPR or Serial or something out there about how these folks essentially took over a NY town and its schools... Probably what Pru is referencing above.
The Hasidic Jewish community has long operated one of New York’s largest private schools on its own terms, resisting any outside scrutiny of how its students are faring.
But in 2019, the school, the Central United Talmudical Academy, agreed to give state standardized tests in reading and math to more than 1,000 students.
Every one of them failed.
Students at nearly a dozen other schools run by the Hasidic community recorded similarly dismal outcomes that year, a pattern that under ordinary circumstances would signal an education system in crisis. But where other schools might be struggling because of underfunding or mismanagement, these schools are different. They are failing by design.
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:22 pm
There's an NPR or Serial or something out there about how these folks essentially took over a NY town and its schools... Probably what Pru is referencing above.
The Hasidic Jewish community has long operated one of New York’s largest private schools on its own terms, resisting any outside scrutiny of how its students are faring.
But in 2019, the school, the Central United Talmudical Academy, agreed to give state standardized tests in reading and math to more than 1,000 students.
Every one of them failed.
Students at nearly a dozen other schools run by the Hasidic community recorded similarly dismal outcomes that year, a pattern that under ordinary circumstances would signal an education system in crisis. But where other schools might be struggling because of underfunding or mismanagement, these schools are different. They are failing by design.
That's the one.
I grew up with a healthy disdain for all religious fundamentalists. (My Grandmother spent time in an Orthodox-run orphanage, and apparently it was hell on earth).
But still - don't hurt anyone and live the way you want.
But to read about how these idiots turn what could be smart kids into barely literate automatons capable of nothing more than spouting 400 year old rules, WHILE sponging off of the taxpayers is enough to make your blood boil.
mister d wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:21 pm
Wow. Lots of antisemites here.
Ha! And they hate us (non-orthodox) Jews more than we disdain them! I suggest looking into the town of Kiera’s Joel in upstate NY. Pure lunacy. Mass inbreeding and they simply hide their special needs kids. Same schooling failures. Huge percentage only speak Yiddish. Enormous percent living on public subsidies. Crazy stats, don’t have time to link.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt