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The haredi school scam
Amir Shoan
Published: 12.07.10, 19:02
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31. 30 preach in your own Church of humanism and shut up!
(07.13.10)
Your annoying everybody
32. a coward barks @ 31
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (07.13.10)
33. Incorrect title of the article
Wlliam   (07.13.10)
Instead, it should be : the haredi israel scam. Bernard Madoff swindled thousands, S billions with his Ponzi scheme. Here, in Israel its being done in the open for over 60 years, with the blessings of Govts.
34. #26 look in the mirror
Josh   (07.13.10)
Why don't we just improve them all. Why one or the other? The fact is that the motivation you speak of is from brainwashing. Hands down you win. Nut are these the children who push trashbins into the path of motorcycles in all that motivation? Who looses when freedom to choose to do real Torah is taken away and boys are motivated to behave like some strange mind experiment that gets further off track by the day. Can we learn to be the unified Israel that traveled through the dessert without strange customs from our Babylonian captors. Can we return messages of love for God instead of how we as vessels build energies indside us through magica repetitive cantations? (Sonds like we think we are gods ourselves) and hear the real words Moses spoke and not some grandatsanding crazy hoot and his unquestionable rantings that make baffoons us and our history? Stupid and brainwashed is not trumped by motivation to perpetuate a system that warps and imprisions greta minds. Hitler was a great motivator too but you don''t see anyone rushing into his brown shirt boys camps, do you? Amazing how uniforms and brainwashing are hand in hand all throughout history. No both camps need to sit and dwell on real Torah and where we were tripped up.
35. To Idiot Sagi #19
K ,   Israel   (07.13.10)
No - sex is supposed to be pure and holy - if you want "dirty" and "sinful" sex you need look no further than the secular world. That is exactly what the chareidi system is trying to avoid! Bigot ...
36. decadence minimilization
zichron   (07.13.10)
the obscene decadence in israel must be countered but the high fertility rate of the haredim producing the resurection of the jews is absolutely vital . the jews in the galut must massively assist in the ethical and spiritual power of evolving jewish universal humanism including the seven laws of noah a dream for humanity and common decency.
37. #35 K
Madeleine ,   Israel   (07.13.10)
Plenty of dirty sex in the charedi world - even worse, because the victim is seen as bringing shame on the community for daring to make accusations. There's paedophilia, wife-beating, incest - you name it. Cahredim want to shut themselves away from the world, not be part of it; fine, but then stop taking state money. Go start some communes somewhere.
38. Haredim children
Hillis ,   Florida   (07.13.10)
If the Haredim want to raise a bunch of dummies by not teaching them reading, writing and arithmetic that's their business.The one subject that should be taught is Manners and respect.That's the one thing they lack.
39. Charedim must do good
Chaim ,   NY   (07.13.10)
that all haters can't stop bashing them. get a life y'all
40. 34 , the most hatefull toward others ...
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (07.13.10)
preaches unity . Hypocrite !!
41. a time bomb ,...
split ,   usa   (07.14.10)
It looks like a V-column planted by Allah - The Palestinians just have to wait and be patient.
42. #3
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.14.10)
You are mistaken. There is quite a lot of violence in Haredi schools - they just don't publishthe fact. The pupils are punished severely (including corporal punishment together with the family of such a child), and/or kicked out. They then get assigned to 'special schools'. I know this first hand because of my profession in those self-same special schools.
43. In one of the accompanying photos...
seadog1946 ,   Shooters Island, NJ   (07.14.10)
the man has an extremely grotesque hair cut/style... at least he didn't choose a fluorescent color to draw additional attention to himself.
44. #13 of course, Minister...
Humphrey Appleby ,   Whitehall, UK   (11.22.10)
"The argument that we must do everything a Minister demands because he has been 'democratically chosen' does not stand up to close inspection. MPs are not chosen by 'the people' - they are chosen by their local constituency parties: thirty-five men in grubby raincoats or thirty-five women in silly hats. The further 'selection' process is equally a nonsense: there are only 630 MPs and a party with just over 300 MPs forms a government and of these 300, 100 are too old and too silly to be ministers and 100 too young and too callow. Therefore there are about 100 MPs to fill 100 government posts. Effectively no choice at all." Now, exchange MK for MP and the other parts about the "dress code" BTW, applies for seculars in TA and the Ultra-orthodox in J'lem or BB etc. So, nobody should be offended ;)
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