Al Sharpton- NY? Hardly, he goes wherever he can stir up the community; mostly outside of NY.
Mayor who made cracking down on Bris Milah a priority? You mean Metzitze B’peh? I think the Rav and Posek from Baltimore is the leading global advocate of tubular suction rather than oral Metzitze B’peh. So don’t pin it on Bloomberg.
Secular Jews control much of New York politics? You mean like Dov Hikind, Simcha Felder, David Greenfield, Philip Goldfeder, Sheldon Silver…to name a few (not to mention Orthodox judges). How many elected Orthodox politicians in Baltimore?
Serious crime in large frum New York City populations? Like Borough Park, or Midwood, or Marine Park, or Mill Basin, or Ocean Parkway, or Forest Hills, or Kew Garden Hills, or Staten Island, or Upper Westside, or Upper Eastside, or Riverdale, etc., etc.
What about the Jewish areas of upper Park Heights? Everyday it reads like the police blotter. And don’t miss your nightly patrol duty or you will hear about it from everyone. There must be some reason that Baltimore is #2 in crime in the nation.
And there is so much Sinas Chinom and Loshon Hora which revolves around the fact that there are no school buses for yeshiva children in Baltimore and the entire frum population must arrange their day around carpooling, morning and evening. Paleeze, this is normal living?
I think I’ll stay in New York.