Reply To: Hiring as Kiruv

Really?!?! You think that the difference between MO and yeshivish is the same as the difference between MO and Catholic?!?!?

Even in high school, I did not fundamentally disagree with the yeshivish perspective the way I fundamentally disagree with Catholicism. Remember that I took the initiative to apply for this job. Make no mistake, it was not well paying. This was something that I really wanted to do.

I know it is for the best that I wasn’t offered the position, and I didn’t really personally believe in the values of the camp. But I respected them, and I understood that Bais Yaakov girls need to be educated in a certain way, and I was willing to take on that challenge.

To offer a different perspective, in middle school I attended a similar camp (not Bais Yaakov camp, but basically made up of all Bais Yaakov girls except for me). And because I was a camper, not a counselor, I was under no directives to keep quiet about my background. Why do you think I was accepted as a camper despite being “different”, but not as a counselor?