Thread: There are people in the Orthodox community who tell me I need to live and let live. But what they haven't understood, and maybe now they can start to understand, is that when you let people live by their own rules they will eventually come for you too.
It starts with the women & children because they're the easiest targets. Don't report sexual abuse, don't let women have authority, when women do start to have influence erase them, show them their place.
Don't believe in science, teach that the authorities are out to get you.
And when people in the community speak up against these practices tell people that they're intolerant, that they are culturally insensitive. Tell them to live and let live, and finally tell them they aren't one of us.
And now when the people have been allowed to have their own rules,to make their own culture, to say that everyone else is wrong, now when they start to beat up their own, when they make everyone look bad, Now you show up? Now you wonder where it's coming from? Now you're shocked?
We have been saying this for years. We decry the erasure of women, we scream against the abandonment of victims, we beg for women to be heard and for Judaism not to be warped. But we go unheeded.
You will probably say its not connected, that the erasure of women, denial of science has nothing to do with violent rioting & beating people. You are wrong. We have seen this over & again. Those who ignore this will reap what they sow and be responsible for all its consequences
I apologize for the confusing pronouns. Writing a thread while making dinner makes one Wonder a bit
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Instead of preparing a future for children, hope of grandchildren , & peace for a nation, the Pal government (whose members live well, have their children treated at top Israeli hospitals & would never send them to die), feeds its ppl a steady diet of hate & expectation of death
They train them to expect to eradicate Israel and take over the entirety of the country.
They raise them on lies, on utterly false hope.
They pay for dead Jews, the more the better.
They don't rule a nation, they rule a death cult of their own making.
According to the Times of Israel, "Three times in one day, the PA’s official television channel carried a broadcast of a song telling mothers that their unborn fetuses will be “martyrs for Palestine,” Palestinian Media Watch claims.
ok- there are videos going around that show Jewish religious extremists coughing on cops and as someone who has lived near these extremists for 13 years, I'd like to say something if you'd be kind enough to listen.
I will tell you the story in two videos.
In the first video you will see the horrifying reality of extremists that have been allowed to run according to their own rules for years. They cause tremendous pain to everyone outside their own community.
In the second video you hear other Ultra Orthodox Jews screaming from their balconies down to their neighbors who are violating lockdown, telling them they are murderers and criminals, that they are putting others at risk.
Thread for the OrthoJews among us:
Im going to say this because I have to say it.
All the glorious creative innovative and thoughtful halachic discussions about minyan, kaddish, Torah & Megillah reading -- it's a beautiful thing.
The rabbinic tears for the closing of the shul doors, the men's pain at not being able to pray with nine others as they have done for decades-- it's touching.
It is.
Until you compare it with the lack of creativity, innovation and deep halachic discussion when it comes to women trapped by the men who abuse them and the law and community to which they are loyal.
Then, the tears, the pain, and the creativity seems extremely cruel.
Two young women jumped off of a building early this morning in Israel. While this detail is not in the press, a source says that at least one was sexually abused & pressured by family to stop therapy. This does not surprise me, it was the first thing I suspected.
When sexual abuse isn't discussed, and worse, is covered up, when victims are shushed and left to suffer, when perpetrators are not held accountable or removed from other potential victims, we need people very few options, we abandon them
the girls were cousins, charedi. it is not unknown that sexual abuse is not spoken of in these communities and is too often dealt with quietly or not dealt with at all. I've written about this before but how many young people must we lose before the community takes responsibility
The paradox of being Israeli is life under extreme uncertainty & reassuring predictability. We don’t know what’s happening on our borders. But, we know exactly when to build our succahs, when to buy matzah, and when rain won’t fall for months to come
It’s strange to live in a long gone past and an uncertain present while we hope for the future. Yet, people in Israel are not afraid. We celebrate life — shopping carts full, guests invited for meals, visiting with family and traveling the country.
Palestinian men beat and murder their female relative for posting a video online. People on twitter blame Israel for their actions, maybe also "patriarchy" but they lay no blame on the men able to use their culture and lack of law & order to get away with murder.
A young woman was beaten & murdered by her family for "honor" and Muslim/Palestinian women can't come out and blame the men who did it? It is your JOB to call it out, it is your privilege to live in a place where you can! Your sisters need you & you're too busy being political.
It's disgusting. You're not feminists, you don't care about Palestinians. If you did, you'd speak out no matter who hurt them. The PA & Hamas included. You have influence, at least in the US, and could ask leaders to speak out against violence against women, but you don't.