I dont live in boro park, and can not be considered a boro park voter, however, I dont think we as a community, wherever we are, can become one issue voters.

It is obvious, as you and other readers have stated, that this opinion is out of touch with most Boro Park voters. While many of the previous generation were less educated and intellectual than many of their counterparts, times have changed. Many orthodox Rabbis of the previous generation (such as Reb Moshe etc.) forbade their students to achieve degrees or pursue a higher education. Today, there are numerous colleges and courses in Boro Park where you can earn a degree and become a professional. A professional will earn everything on the books and most likely won’t be eligible for much of the social programs. Additionally, in todays day and age, most businesses will pay their workers for tax purposes. It is also much harder to make fraudulent invoices and payrolls in the computer-era. Therefore most BP residents will look at those with a fiscal conservative agenda. BP is a reliable red patch in center of dark blue Brooklyn. They will vote for those with conservative views over promises of sweets. Immorality in Boro Park is sometimes worse than anything else. Boro Park has flooded their elected officials with mail, phone calls and petitions when the Immorality bill was introduced in the state senate. It has been a campaign issue all along and a defining one.

However, I believe that Rabbi Levine has gone overboard this time. We must remember that a Chillul Hashem isn’t just a way of life but a fundamental issue in Judaism. It isn’t an easy task as well. They are always on the lookout to catch us in embarrassment thus causing a desecration of Hashems name. Things must be done politely and with diplomacy so it should be effective. If our community will become labeled a bigoted racist community our voice would never be heard again (think Westboro Baptist Church). We should use our bloc-vote, petitions and phone calls in a political-correct manner to drive our message home. HaKol Kol Yaakov, VHaYadayim Ydei Eisav. Bashing others with insensitive remarks will nullify you forever and cause a Chillul Hashem in vain.

However, you need to understand that Dan Miller, like top Democratic strategist Hand Sheinkopf (who was in my class in Yeshiva), is a professional politician, who is more at home with the goyische political operators than with the Heimisch Jewish community.

He looks at things from the conventional political viewpoint–NY Times, NY Post, Daily News…etc.

He cannot imagine the hashkofos that we frum Yidden have, because he is alientaed from them.

Listen to Rabbi Levin’s speech- I am dan lechaf zechus that he gave it in front of a church because as he said, it was Carl Paladino’s church, and that made the speech’s impact more powerful. In his speech, R. Levin mentioned that there was a school in which immoral material was being taught to pre-schoolers, rachmana litzlan, and that when 1 parent removed his children from the school so that they wouldn’t be exposed to this poison, he was faced with jail time. I was aware of this case years before Rabbi Levin mentioned it- it tok place 6 or 7 years ago nebach. DOES THAT NOT SHOCK YOU?! CAN YOU IMAGINE THE UPROAR THAT THIS WOULD CAUSE IF RACHMONA LITZLAN THIS WERE TO HAPPEN IN ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS, CHAS VESHALOM?! However, from the tone of your article, it could sound to a gentile that such a horror story wouldn’t bother you- THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE!!!! As I said, I liked this website, but if this is the kind of improper material that is being posted, then I see no reason to continue viewing it. Everyone should post how they disagree with this article, so that we can show the righteous gentiles that we are pro-morality, and that the views of this author DO NOT REPRESENT US IN ANY WAY!!!!!!!!!