It’s very important before an election to remember who the true power brokers are. To that end the New Yorker ran a story yesterday called The Shame of Borough Park, which chronicles the travails of Sam Kellner, a man who found out the hard way that his community doesn’t follow the guidelines set forth by Agudath Israel. The Agudah talking heads have said numerous times that one must not go to the police to report child molesters unless one has permission from a rabbi, Kellner got permission but was ill-used in the ass anyways.
I think it serves him right though, who the hell did he think he is trying to imprison a respected chazzan, a man who selflessly gave rides to lonely teenagers he found walking to school? He should have just told the va’ad hatznius about the abuse and left it up to them to do nothing, it’s really none of his business.
The only way we can keep the civil authorities out of our business, and arresting those renegades like Kellner who would involve them, is by electing officials who will keep them at bay. Unfortunately Charles Hynes is out and Thompson, a successor who is turning out to be worthy of his predecessor’s respect, is in, and the community machers have had to start their bribing and shmearing all over again.
Anyway, this is all by way of introduction to the important matter of voting today.
In the two missives above and below we are informed that:
- Jews believe that minors become adults after bar or bat mitzvah and the justice system should do the same
- If insurance policies cover abortions frum Jews will all start aborting. I mean, if you can’t get a heter from your rabbi to take birth control you might just resort to abortions; this will put us in violation of “lo taamod al dam re’acha”
- If same sex marriage is legal in New York the shidduch crisis will reach crisis proportions; after all why would anyone who learned in The Mir marry a Bais Yaakov girl if they can marry a nice talmid chochom who learned in Brisk?
- Although the frum summer camps in Monticello do not pay much property tax, the state has no right to put casinos there to help the local economy – what chutzpah!
- Also, if you vote for Ben Akselrod he’ll fight to increase minimum sentences for violent criminals (why don’t we just lock up all goyim already from birth and dispense with the legal formalities?)
So do your duty by your people and vote according to what your rabbonim tell you.
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H/T Fred MacDowell
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