Comments on: Queens: New Satmar Yeshiva coming under fire

By: kishke

kishke — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:41:27 +0000

Plenty of people would oppose having an elementary school on their block. It’s a tremendous inconvenience. And even those who wouldn’t oppose would be acting out of frume reasons. Which is fine, but a non-Jew who does not share those feelings is not an anti-Semite.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:41:43 +0000

They aren’t going to stop the Torah over here. The Yeshiva is in full swing.

By: malkyt

malkyt — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:33:43 +0000

Don’t agree with you PD87. How would you like a school that size built on your residential block? I don’t believe it has anything to do with Satmar.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:42:59 +0000

kishke, do not assume any Jew would oppose a Yeshiva in their neighborhood. It takes a perosn of a certain caliber to oppose Torah in their neighborhood.

What chilik if the children learning Torah are from the neighborhood or not? Yiddish kinder zenen Yissishe Kinder. Learning Torah is learning Torah.

In any event those opposed to this Mokem Torah have lost their war on the Yeshiva, as it is B’H in full swing.

By: PD87

PD87 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:21:29 +0000

I WOULD CALL IT ANTI SATMAR….IF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT SCHOOL NO ONE WOULD HAVE SAID A BOO!!!

By: kishke

kishke — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:58:50 +0000

What’s typical is the claim of anti-semitism for something that almost any Jew would oppose if it were constructed in his neighborhood. It’s hypocritical.

By: yiddishefroi

yiddishefroi — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:13:07 +0000

I don’t know why you assume it has to be anti-semitic. I know I would not be very happy living in a residential neighborhood and then having numerous buses blocking the roadways with hundreds of children (bli ayn horo) loading and unloading. You know how the buses block the streets in Boro Park. Don’t forget, these children don’t even live there. For 1000 children you have to have quite a few buses. Don’t forget the noise aspect either from all the children coming into the neighborhood. I wonder what R’ Yisroel Salanter would have said.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:53:48 +0000

Typical anti-semitic (hopefully not Jewish anti-semites) rabble-rousing.