In what is very rare in chareidi areas Baruch Hashem, police have arrested a 61-year-old father of eight in Yerushalayim’s Meah Shearim neighborhood. Police report that after undercover agents posed as drug dealers and made purchases, they moved in for the arrest. According to the police report, marijuana and hashish were uncovered in the home as well as makeshift weapons.
Jerusalem District Police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby stated the arrest was made on Monday night, adding the suspect insisted he is not a drug dealer, but offered the drugs to friends as “refreshments”. The suspect was remanded on Tuesday.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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You have a typo in the article, The comma should be the word areas. It should read
In what is very rare in chareidi areas, Baruch Hashem police have arrested
The typo is that it should say “Baruch Hashem” twice: “In what is very rare in chareidi areas Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem police have arrested…”
I like that comment about the comma good job
I agree with #1 B’H he was arrested. This is really bad intorducing such things and simply calling it “refreshments”. As it is there is enough problems with these “refreshments” with frum teens in other places of the world, why start it here in Me’ah Sheorim?
Once we are listing typos, how about:
“adding the suspect insisted he is not a drug dealer” should probably read “adding THAT the suspect insisted he is not a drug dealer”…
But who is looking for typos, anyway! Just appreciate the great website that YWN provides! (And hire a proofreader! 🙂 )
I thought the poster was saying Baruch Hashem it is very rare, not Baruch hashem the police have arrested, in which case the comma is correctly situated, although i confess that i am quite embarrassed that there are 4 comments about a comma – a comma crisis? do you think?
Oh yeah? Being Chareidi doesn’t guarantee you a life free of vices. Plenty of Chareidi Jews are involved with drugs, many more than you think
Of course the poster meant B”H it’s very rare. That was the 1st commenters point. Stop B”Hing about how great we are, admit we have difficulties in our community, and say B”H the lowlife was caught.
These comments are completely useless. Thank gd another drug dealer is off the streets, sorry if he is a father of 8 or 18, or if he is charedei (?) or DL, or a druze in disquise. Goodbye and get new refreshments for your chevra.
Here’s a case where it happened in a major charedi community where everything is banned. I bet this guy dressed chasidish too while selling his drugs and gaining from the profits and no one cared because he was wearing the livush.Goes to show you that this can happen anywhere.
scary to think that wherever you are, even in meah shearim, u are never safe from crime!!
We have to be so careful out there…
Could someone explain why those drugs are illegal and alcohol is legal? It seems that alcohol is far more dangerous with its ability for physical addiction and fatal overdose.
This is NOT krias Hatorah… no need to make corrections.
# 9 is correct.
To #14
We don’t need any explainations! The issue is very very clear. At this time dealing in drugs unless you are a pharmacist is illegal!
This menuval dealt in drugs and must be off the streets!
This is not about what is “more dangerous”
what is dangerous are comments like #14 that would justify any crime!
more people to collect for………the dealer should be prosecutes. we should turn in ANYONE who commits a crime
#14. no. nobody can explain it to you because you really do not want to know. most people who ask this question and I am not seeing you are in this category, ask it to justify their illegal “refreshments”
‘Oh yeah? Being Chareidi doesn’t guarantee you a life free of vices. Plenty of Chareidi Jews are involved with drugs, many more than you think
Comment by robroy560 — July 16, 2008 @ 1:08 pm ‘
Hey, dude, no one said anything about a guarantee. Are you denying that relative to the general population, the rate of drugs and alcohol in the chareidi population is way lower?
Who says that drug dealers are chareidi? Maybe that “guy” was but obviously is not anymore. My heart goes out to his wife and the children. Just imagine the kind of deplorable behavior they were exposed too.
TO #11
are u bashing a whole kehila???
see igros moshe y”d chelek daled siman lamed vav ois ud alef.
rav moshe zt”l states clearly that in our times melamdi torah on a level where the son can teach etc. for pay, is also like melamdy umnus!
Well said #10 the comments about the typo’s is totally useless! And let’s try not to be the same as the goyim…aren’t we different…?
I love how you guys are arguing about the comma. The truth of the matter is that very few people use commas correctly. At the same time, the comma is of critical importance.
President Bush caused a commotion when he said,
“That this traumatic period in Iraq will be seen as “just a comma” in the history books.
(See, Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 5, 2006; Page A19
Let’s take for example the statement, “shake well before using.” Without using a comma, it could be read as “shake, well before using” meaning, shake it way ahead of using, or, “shake well, before using”, shake it well before using.
Some of you might have heard the following story:
A grammarian, who always admonished his students to speak correctly, spoke his last words in the following manner:
“I am going to, or about to, die. Each of
which is equally correct. Then he died.”
2, the phrase “just a comma” (notice the absence of commas, I don’t want to make a mistake) when in the context of a quote, should have a single quote mark, i.e. ‘just a comma’.
Actually I was suggesting that alcohol should be illegal as well.
I am actually asking if anybody out there can explain why one is legal and one is not. This question is asked by teenagers all the time and if you dont have a good explaination you will look foolish.
So instead of”dissing” the question or the questioner it would be more helpful to provide an answer.
It is a shame that with such smart posters nobody can answer this question
OYYYYYYY… I guess I’ll be the one to clarify it in the shlish-hatachton of this thread… (it has been attempted a few times higher up):
The first commenter made a brilliant observation that went waaaaay over the heads of most of this kehilla kedosha. The comment had NOTHING to do with English language punctuation. It had everything to do with the Jewish community of Mea she’arim.
The comment was: Say not “Boruch Hashem it never happens…” That is irrelevant and apparently untrue. Say “Boruch Hashem he was caught” as that is the news that interests honest and proud Jewish readers… Let’s not pat ourselves on the back for how seldom this happens, let’s thank Hashem that this creep was caught and let’s take heed for the future!
#15 way to go!
#29 tov!
#29 Thank you!!! For the compliment, for understanding what I said, and for explaining it so well.
“offering drugs as refreshments”-what a creative rationalization!
I think that if we delve into the tractate “Baba Kamma” we may possibly solve our comma problem here.