The Jewish War

Welcome to golus.

What you describe will not end before Moshiach arrives.

Daven harder. That’s all we can do.

Also it’s worldwide so there is nowhere to run tu. I think if you want to move to the safest place, move to eretz Yisrael, were there is an extra measure of hashgocha protis. “Eretz asher einei Hashem Elokecha ba mereishis hashana ad acharis shana.”

In the past we knew this posuk but it seemed a bit incongruous with reality because we always hear of terrorist attacks. But now we see clearly how so many plots fail over there, abs how cvs, even when it is successful, they usually only manage to wound people, abs if cvs more than that, it is very few people. Contrast that with the rest of the world where one attack kills dozens of people.

I was thinking along these lines several years ago. If I wasnt on shlichus I would do the above myself

Sorry if this sounds like defending anti-semitism, but the welfare scams kinda make sense

All over the internet, PEOPLE KNOW that a lot of orthodox Jews cheat and it makes sense to me that they are finally sick of it (please correct me if I’m wrong, since I did not hear of this “anti-semitic practices” till now)

zahavasdad,

I am certain that there are cases where people with shuls in homes are crossed the line in disturbing their neighbors. But what is happening in Jackson and elsewhere is not because of that. Even when the frum Jews are very careful to be quiet, to not park on the street, or when the minyan is in commercial space, they still receive tremendous pushback and government harassment. Neighbors call and complain about non-existent minyanim, about excessive parking on the street when there is none or little (far less than they have when they host parties). The only item you listed that might apply in most cases is “People who live in Suburbs do not want people congregating on a residential street.” But that is nonsense, because it doesn’t bother them when people gather for the things they like to do, like parties. It only bothers them if people congregate for worship different from theirs. And if the frum Jews are careful, which they should be and usually are, the neighbors suffer no harm whatsoever. It is all in their heads.

I don’t think it is anti-semitism per se. It is a fear of the other (non-conventional churches and mosques often face similar discrimination), of having the character of neighborhood change to that of a strange religion. But this is America, and people are free to move wherever they like. If they don’t like it, they can move and take advantage of the rising home prices that Orthodox Jews create.

Joseph,

That isn’t exactly right. Federal law requires that municipalities show “a compelling interest” before enforcing zoning laws against religious institutions (other than wanting them to comply with zoning laws), and that the zoning law is the least restrictive way of achieving that interest. For example, let’s say a Town has a law stating that houses of worship must be on lots larger than 2 acres and you want to open a shul on a lot that is an acre and a half. You apply for a variance and are denied. You can then bring the Town to Court and force them to explain why they have this law.

If they answer, that they don’t want to have parking issues on the street so they want to make sure that the house of worship has sufficient parking spaces, the Court will say that the Town could have achieved that goal by simply making parking on the street illegal in front of the shul. The zoning law will then be invalidated and the Town will have to pay your attorney fees.

The reporting of Orthodox Jews committing financial crimes is similar to the reporting on Muslims committing violent crimes. When an Orthodox Jews commits a financial crime, the news notes his Orthodox affiliation (sometimes with a picture of the Orthodox community) and when a Muslim commits a violent crime, the news reports his religious affiliation.

But when an Lutheran or an Episcopalian commits a crime, their religion isn’t part of the news so no association is built up in the minds of people.

Jews don’t like to move.
Most Jews died in the plague of darkness
Since they didn’t want to leave Egypt.
And when the call to rebuild the second Temple
When out most stayed in Babylon.
And today when the doors of the land of isreal are open.
Most Jews in exile are waiting for moshiach to ask them to move to isreal.

Benignuman, when a random Muslim didn’t pay his taxes or didn’t report his income when applying for social benefits, the media will usually not even carry a story altogether. If it was big enough to carry, they’ll usually never mention he’s Muslim.

If it is a random Orthodox Jew for the same crime, they’ll usually report it even if it otherwise was too small a case to be newsworthy. And they almost always find a way to stick in the story that he’s Orthodox/Hasidic/Rabbi, even though that has no more to do with the story than that he’s 6 feet tall.

I think it may be because when people see such an insular people, they want to know more about them. When they do something wrong, they have a brief glimpse into their lives and are interested. Which makes it more newsworthy

There used to be a shul across the street from my house , I live on a residential block and every morning everyone would drive to this shul and take up all the parking spaces on the street (And sometimes block driveways)

There is a yeshiva near my house where people double and triple park in front of it so you have to go on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic to get around it.

Common courtesy is contangious, it seems people who go to a shul or yeshiva think that absolves them of bein-Adom-L-Chavero

There is a very well known protestant minister who has a megachurch in Houston , tx. During Hurricane Harvey at first he refused to open the church to flood refugees (Christians belive that chruches should be open like that) he claimed the church was flooded and then some people went down to his church and took photos and showed the chruch was fine. He was roundly roasted in the media for not opening up the church to the Hurricane Harvey flood victims

Apushtayid,

The situation you describe makes sense. The rule was universal for all regular meetings (i.e. would apply to a social club too), and more importantly, did not forbid praying in the space altogether, it simply required some safety changes be made. That is a classic least restrictive means.

In Jackson and elsewhere (many places in Rockland over the years), the rules were designed to stop shuls altogether and were not narrowly tailored to prevent the harm the Town was claiming the law was meant to prevent.

Joseph, where do you get your statistics about the ethnicity of people who cheat the government?