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צמח's avatar

These kids are the only kids who will remain Jewish for the next 100 years, while all the families of all indignant and enlightened members of the "mainstream organizations" will acculturate or assimilate. Are you sure you want to fight them? An honest question.

And this is not just Satmar, etc. Lubavitch/Chabad has a school "Oholey Torah" founded by the late Rebbe. A significant number if not the majority of the "shluchim" emissaries who at the front of the Jewish identity preservation come from that school.

We also live in a sick, centralized culture where NYT writing about something makes it legitimate.

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Flo Eckstein's avatar

Gary, you may wish to adapt this to a letter to The New York Times, or perhaps offer an op ed. The failure of elected and appointed officials with the power to take action is unconscionable — a dereliction of duty. The failure of Jewish organizations to influence public decision makers is deeply disappointing.

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