Charliehall; In your reply to HereWeGo you tell/ask her, rhetorically, that if she wants a caste system Riverdale is not for her. Why (on earth) would she want to live under a caste system. She is trying to escape from that , in Israel. From what I read in Israeli newspapers and magazines, the discrimination and standoff ishness against Baalei T’shuva in some circles is so strong that some even begin to regret their change in lifestyle. Some Yeshivas and seminaries will not even give them a chance to go through the door. Some people (in those places that DO discriminate) even tried to rationalize (Surely not justify.) their actions by saying that the students from BT families will have a negative influence on the others, due to the fact that they have non-religious relatives who teach them all the negative customs. It has come to a point where to be a BT is almost a stigma.
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