Is the 5TJT serious?
First off they happen to be leaving apart of History out.
The “gezeira” was for a specific qouta of Jewish children to be ponied up to the military.
The rich people paid for poor peoples children to be kidnapped and used to fill the qouta so that theirs would not.
I am in no way justifying what they did, it is horrible to say the least.
But do not make it out as if they just set about doing evil to other peoples kids.
That was not the case.
They were faced with a horrible nisoyon (test), one that we can thankfully not imagine and many of them failed.
They failed horribly.
As for the part of the 5TJT that presumes to tell the Williamsburg community how they must “act” and what they must do.
I hope they realize that is patently ridiculous.
The community they refer to is by and large Chassidish and the particular one in focus is Satmar.
I do not think that the Satmar Rabbonim are going to turn to the Five Towns community for advice on how to run their schools anytime soon.
And if the authors of the article were smart they wouldn’t try to give it.
How’s about the FTJT do a drop of research as to which community is actually more successful in passing down their chinuch to the next generation?
As for the “culture” of punishing those that come foraward.
Lets be clear about this.
Never ever has a single Satmar Chossid or member of the community justified anything that this man is alleged to have done.
They have not and would not justify it. As the very thought of it is repulsive.
Heres the catch.
They say he did not do it.
Other women who let their names out and stood up on the witness stand. Said we attended therepy with him.
He did not do it.
The secular press has admitted there this is a “He said, She said” case. There is no evidence he did it.
Two people now say that others have come forward.
For years he practiced.
He was sent this girls older sisters.
No word, no rumours, nothing.
All of a sudden out of the wood work comes two people saying others all of a sudden found out they could come forward anonmously.
Can the 5TJT staff please write an editorial explaining what the halachic sources are that allow them to believe this girl over him are?
And to beleive her so firmly that they are able to write an editorial slandering an entire community?
If they should chose to write such an editorial it will probably take them awhile cause tit does not exist.
BTW it actually is a machlokes whether Yichud is a Drabonon or not and the Tzitz Eliezer says according to the Mechaber it’s a Drabunan.
According to everyone Kabbolas Motzi Shem Rah is an Issur Doiraisa.