MR -“Health- I was wrong about the age, my husband was there until he was 11. Either way- your statement as usual is rude and judgmental. My husbands family do not hate Jews who follow the Torah. They are very modern and the crowd was changing so it was not for them. They watched tv, went to movies, their daughters wore an wear pants. A community is allowed to not be for everyone, maybe it’s good for you.”
You missed my point and it wasn’t rude or judgmental -it was fact. Now I don’t know if your husband’s family preceded the Yeshiva or not, but I can tell you there was hardly any Jewish families left in the town before people started moving there because of the Yeshiva. So the implication of your post was that there was a Jewish community there and it changed to Yeshivish because of the Yeshiva. No, there wasn’t much Jews there before the Yeshiva. It was a thriving Frum community in the 20’s. It died in the 50’s & 60’s. Once the Yeshiva started up the community again – MO’s also moved in. So this is called Kofoy Tov. So without the Yeshiva the town would be mostly Goyim -so I guess if your husband’s family preceded the Yeshiva -they must prefer to live amongst Goyim then amongst Yeshivaleit. The MO’s and BT’s moved in because the Yeshiva made it a Frum community. When I was there many years ago, there wasn’t even a Kosher grocery. They still had shuls but the only people in then were old people and I doubt most were even Frum. And most barely had a Minyan. So if there was even a small amount of Jewish community -they would have had a least a Kosher grocery.