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Comments (0)Like Neville Chamberlain, Rabbi Samuel Silber and Jewish Times publisher Andrew Buerger seek “peace in our time” — in this instance, building bridges between the Haredi and non-Haredi Jewish worlds (“Real Torah,” Jan. 27).
Post-Beit Shemesh, this is a fool’s errand. Especially in Israel, the Haredim wish to have as little as possible to do with the rest of the Jewry, let alone the rest of the world — except to have it subsidize their existence. And if what happened was, indeed, an aberration, then why has not the “silent majority” of decent Haredim come forth and spoken out in condemnation?
The reality is that — like their conservative Christian counterparts in this country — Haredim are bullies at heart, and when their bullying meets resistance, they quickly play the victim card. As with Fox TV’s “war on Christmas,” in Beit Shemesh there were kids who were trotted out and dressed up in Holocaust garb complete with yellow stars, not to mention the press release which said “this protest reflects the Zionists’ persecution of the Haredi public, which we see as worse than what the Nazis did.”
Rachmiel Gottlieb
Pikesville