Reply To: Going off the Derech

zahavasdad-Then perhaps you know many misguided people. When you say the Charedim are trying to ‘out-frum the Goldstein’s’, you are making accusatory generalizations and applying them to the Charedi world at large. Because in my small microcosm of a world, nobody is trying to out-do anyone. Everyone is truly yiras Shamayim, with middos tovos, people of chesed. Perhaps, each of us judges Klal Yisrael based on what we have…

And you are wrong about Bet Shemesh!! Who said that nobody spoke out about it, the media? And you’re already pointing fingers and exposing the “flaw” in the Charedi world without knowing the emes. Shame on you!

Unfortunately, in perhaps an unconscious way, you too are being pulled into the mire with others who would like nothing more than to make the Charedim look bad. I will never believe it. I’m not saying that there aren’t RYs who won’t accept kids with OTD siblings. I am saying that they are not a true reflection of yiddishkeit, and certainly don’t represent the Klal…or me.