eman:
By all means. Go start the petition….
Let me know how much traction you get.
and now i’ll comment on your post.
First you promoted that boys date older girls and paid the shadchanim to promote it.
incorrect:
The goal of the first program was to edcuate a country about a concept called age gap. Shadchanim weren’t paid to promote it. Shadhcanim who made shidduchim, many of which had no idea about the program until after the engagmenet, were paid. simply becasue it was a good marketing technique to get peole to talk about the concpet of close in age marriages.
This received Rabbinical endorsements which you are still using to this day. (see recent ads in papers)
incorrect:
Thre recent ad from 70 R”Y never mentions nasi nor any program NASI ever ran.
The ad about the newest progarm listed (6 or 9 i don’t remeber) rabboinim and R”Y who explicityly endorsed the newset program where girls or their parents put money in a escrow like setting to be spent only after the girls walks down the aislt.
When you couldn’t find the money to honor those commitments, the project was abandoned and the parents were blamed.
partially correct:
Fundraising for the first progarm got difficult, and a decision was made to close down that program 6 months in the future. When shadhcanim got taken advantage of by parents, there was no choice but to close it down effective immedaitely so as not to hurt the shadcahnim.
Then you had merchants sponsor your organization.
incorrect:
you are proably reffering to short lived not that effective program where stores signed up to offer discuount to families of close in age shidducim. (not sure if that’s what you mean by merchants sponsoring the org). No mechants ever gave a wooden nickel to the org.
Now you run a program to get the girls or the parents to pay an outrageous amount, which has only been documented with anonymous accolades.
incorrect:
see above that a ad was run in the paper listed well known rabbonim and R”Y by name who endorsed that exact program.
The time has come for the Rabbonim to close your organization down.
By all means.
Just before you do,
you might want to speak to
Montreal,
Toronto
Monsey
Chicago
Flatbush
Far Rockaway
Lawrence
Kew gardens
They are all running nasi community based program geared to generating shadhcan attention for the young women in the community who didn’t just start dating.
B”h the progarms have been amazingly succesful, and by and large the singles in the communtiy don’t even know about the progarms!!