The following was published on Sunday evening on the official Facebook page of the Rockland County Republican Party. It was not edited in anyway by YWN, and appears in full:
I’m all in favor of other’s right to speak their mind and peacefully demonstrate their views. Conversely, I understand that my right to swing my arms in protest ends when my fist hits someone else’s nose and my right to free speech ends when I falsely yell “fire” in a crowded theater. What I can’t stomach is hypocrisy!
The Rockland County Democratic Committee has been posting all weekend in support of the marches in all of the liberal cities of our country. Yet, right here in Rockland County, right in their own backyard, is the most egregious example of women’s oppression in our entire country. The ultra orthodox Hasidic community’s abusive treatment of women is epic. In that community, women must separate themselves from men, must dress as they are told, are forced into arranged marriages, can not divorce without the approval of their husbands and community leaders, they are not properly educated, can’t attend college, and can not use birth control, yet, the Rockland County Democratic Committee says nothing: absolute silence. Why? Because the people in that community vote in a block and the leaders of the Rockland Democratic Party want their votes. Please!!!!! Total hypocrisy!!!!
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Typical Rockland anti-semites self-hating Jews I live here over 30 years and I see with my own eyes they cannot stand us As frum yidden,
All Other stuff is just excuses and garbage and Hate.
With all their lies nobody’s better than us which includes Behavior, crime & drugs Etc
Let’s just ignore them stay strong they will fall one by one
We don’t feel oppressed we feel privileged – very many of our women have businesses and degrees and enjoy having beautiful large families. I don’t see where Trump has a problem with women
Freedom of speech means just that. They’re allowed to express themselves (as inaccurate as they may be).
i lived in monsey n i have nothing nice to say about it esp since my wife was treated disrespectfully there
Don’t like it. But there is nothing there that’s not true
Does anyone disagree with this?
In case you thought that all the cuckoo feminists are Democrats…
To some extent the author is misguided and ignorant, one can hardly fault him, his lifestyle is so distant from the Torah way that he misinterprets and compares the superficial impression to other cultures where similar behavior may very well reflect an abusive society towards women.
Commentary in brackets:
The ultra orthodox Hasidic community’s abusive treatment of women is epic. [in contrast to secular society, Jewish law and custom mandates respect for one’s wife in a Kesubah, there is a pervasive theme of the Kavod of a bas Yisroel for anyone familiar with Torah and Jewish Law. This plays itself out in many laws, such as Charity where we are obligated in many situations to give preference to women -(where a woman’s honor would be compromised) before men since a woman’s honor demands greater attention.] In that community, women must separate themselves from men, [women separate themselves from men as much as men separate themselves from women, the issue is one of morality, something that is unfortunately utterly foreign to greater society] must dress as they are told,[woman are trained and encouraged to dress in a way that is modest, something unfortunately very foreign to greater American society] are forced into arranged marriages, [depending on which degree of Ultra was referred to by the author, the degree of parental control and influence varies greatly, but in no cases to my knowledge is anyone forced] can not divorce without the approval of their husbands [plain false] and community leaders [again- plain false], they are not properly educated,[they are not educated according to secular standards and they are much better off that way. Drugs, violence, morality, the list goes on…] can’t attend college,[again depending on degree of Ultra referred to, this is generally false, and in situations where this has truth, again the reason has to do with not having shared values, fortunately, between what is taught in these colleges and how they were raised] and can not use birth control [this is a function of sanctity of life part of a belief system that elevates those who choose to live it. For those familiar with Jewish law – This concept has ramifications for men too, this has nothing to do with being abusive to women]
A whole book can be written on this pervasive theme that has been expressed by the misguided author of the Facebook post. To the extent that the ignorance is willful it is evil to malign a whole segment of society like that.
This is the way goyim look at life r”l. However it depends whether you look at the cup as half full or half empty. In fact we look at our cup as completely full not even half full. We are pround of our adherance to the halochas of taharas hamishpocha, we rejoice in our tznius, we appreciate the care and love our parents take in finding us suitable marriage partners, we make no complaint about the way our Torah provides for divorce if chas veshalom things do not work out, we are highly educated for our role in life as Yiddishe mamas even without attending college and getting caught up in promiscuity and drugs, and we are absolutely committed to raising our children as the furture generation of Torah true yidden, the more the better.
The inside bums (OTD) have infiltrated the republican party. What a shame!!!
They are Rodfim!!!
to #5 and #6 why are you reinforcing falsehoods? Which world are you living in? Women can’t get divorced without the approval of their husbands? In practice that is false. A man can’t get divorced without the approval of his wife either, per the Cherem D’R’ Gershom so it is a two way street, they can both play hardball in reality, a woman has many tools at her disposal, cherem etc to help her.
They are forced into arranged marriages? They can’t get divorced w/o community leader approval? Which community are you a part of?
In many cases Halacha allows and mandates birth control. In cases where it doesn’t it has nothing to do with being abusive to women.
The parts of the post that have truth are distortions as outlined above in # 8.
ridiculous!
A woman is not told what to wear, we are just told (by the torah, not by men) to cover ourselves.
we need to get a ‘gett’ to divorce, but in all cases, if its denied, Bais Din gives permission to go to regular court.
There are no ‘arranged’ marriages – no one is forced into a marriage- ever!
and the birth control thing is flat out false
can someone provide an email address of RC GOP. I don’t have FaceBook and I want to request an apology from them.
To No. 9
You say, “we are highly educated for our role in life as Yiddishe mamas even without attending college and getting caught up in promiscuity and drugs”.
Please speak for yourself. There are hundreds of thousands of frum bnos yisroel who have gone to college, obtained advanced degrees, work as doctors, lawyers, engineers, researchers, bankers etc. and have raised torah-true families without engaging in “promiscuity and drugs”. I feel sorry for you. Perhaps if you had pursued some level of education, you would not be posting such nareshkeit with such a myopic view of the role of a “yiddeshe mama”.
Just by the way, aside from the falsehoods that are in the post in general and specifically divorce, does anyone realize that the the 69+ million Catholics in the US are not capable of getting divorced? The concept of divorce does not exist for Catholics. In order to remarry there is a process but it comes with some permanent restrictions and requires Church approval.
Just sayin…
fyi, the offensive post has been taken down; thanks to all who forcefully expressed their displeasure at the piece on the Rockland GOP Facebook page.