I just saw the number of CS’s posts, and I’m sure that I won’t be able to do justice in arguing all the relevant points. (If I didn’t believe that CS is an honest, but misguided, woman, I would suspect that she wrote so much just to shut me up. But I don’t think she did.) Nonetheless, לא עלי המלאכה לגמור, so here goes…
a community (us) where the responsibility lies with the individual to care and guidelines are suggested but not enforced (so that every child can have a proper chinuch for example.)
Perhaps you would care to explain how a “child can have a proper chinuch” if he has an unfiltered smartphone. Could you be mechanech a child while he is in a church praying to osoi ho’ish?
Take this as an illustrative example. No I am not suggesting that there are no true Yarei shomayim in the other communities, but rather you cannot judge because of the different cultures, and ultimately, they’re more vulnerable than we are.
Well I’m glad even you admit this is only illustrative. The problem is, that it’s not. I’m sure that all groups have their problems and their secrets, but it is total garbage to say that others are more vulnerable than you are. Why did the LR prohibit TVs? According to you that just makes you more vulnerable.
We all know that Lubavitch was the only one overall (I’ve heard of one non lubavitch teacher who taught in Chabad’s hidden chadarim), who not only didn’t go frei themselves but kept up Yiddishkeit and community life (Mikvah, shochet etc) underground with extreme mesirus nefesh.
Not coming from Russian stock I can’t argue with that, but from what I’ve heard Karlin and Litvishe will indeed argue.