Reply To: Increase in OTD Children… are made to feel like second-class citizens,

America was a spiritual wasteland until after WWII. The gedolim before the war recommended against moving to America because one was likely to throw their yiddishkeit into the Hudson River as they passed the statue of “liberty”. It was only later when gedolim like R. Aharon Kotler, Satmar Rebbe, R. Moshe Feinstein built Torah and yiddishkeit here that many people stopped doing various aveiros. So it is no raya that people were sinning in the 30s and 40s that that somehow made it right.