Comments on: Op-Ed: When a Meeting is an Endorsement

By: nfgo3

nfgo3 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:36:03 +0000

This op-ed rambles all over the place, but I will focus on one single question: what do frum residents of New York City need from their next mayor?

First, let’s consider two things the from community does not need. One is a candidate who supports frum values, i.e., Torah and mitzvahs. For that the frum community only needs more Jews being frum. The Lubavitchers are doing a good job there, and none of them is running for mayor, probably because they know better. Lots of yeshivas are doing a good job there too, though I would like to seem a good count of how many yeshiva grads go off the derech within 5 – 10 years of high school graduation. And frum husbands and wives are doing a good job of producing more Jews, but they cannot vote until they are 18.

Neither does the frum community does need someone – Jew or gentile – who supports the values of the frum community – the frum community is doing that very well without help from the city government. So a mayoral candidate who tells the frum community – or the rest of the city – that Toeiva marriage is wrong is not telling the frum community anything that is new.

What the frum community does needs is not that different than what most communities in the City need: their fair share of city services, a competent administration that can spend money – and account for it – efficiently and accurately, and administer the balance between private interests and public needs wisely and for the good of public.

Rabbi Handler has not told us why his candidate would be a good mayor for the frum community or the rest of the city. He has just told us that if he were a Jew, he would be a good one and fit into the Jewish community. That is not what the frum community needs in a mayor.

By: MDshweks

MDshweks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:05:01 +0000

Oh, Hamodia – arn’t they the guys who gave us Bloomberg???

By: Joe Yeshivish

Joe Yeshivish — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:28:03 +0000

Well said, Rabbi Handler. The Hamodia/Yated are a waste of time when it comes to politics. They claim to be “Torah” newspapers but yet they ALWAYS have “endorsed” (as if an undecided voter opens these rags & says hmm these political morons are endorsing Mr. A, so that’s who I’ll vote for) the most radical left wing anti torah perverts! After all they’re leading in the polls a week before the election so let’s jump on the filthy bandwagon! Only a fool reads those rags!

By: BP Chasid

BP Chasid — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:22:14 +0000

Rabbi Handler can we hear from the candidate what he says in other communities? Cause I have a feeling that he is just pandering to the Jewish community when he is around in the Jewish community.
Also besides the Jewish community who else is supporting this candidate? He is about 1% in the polls and is considered a long shot candidate, so why invest time in someone that doesn’t have backing anywhere and doesn’t stand a chance in winning.
John Liu made it very clear that he will rescind Bloombergs attack on Bris Milah so why not jump onto his wagon?