Tel-Chai Nation

The Jerusalem Post wrote about former ultra-Orthodox Judaists who're now leading simpler lives. But man, is there something here that really angers me, realizing what a bad approach the Haredis must've taken to educating the following:

“Growing up, I felt like my mind was held prisoner. I remember learning about the prophet Joshua in the fourth grade and how he healed people, and then we learned about the Holocaust, and I couldn’t make sense of the two; it made me mad. I really didn’t like God. I was taught my whole life that Jews are the chosen people and that everyone else was inferior to us. That idea that you are better than everyone isn’t true. I wanted to travel the world and see these people and I couldn’t understand how I am better.”

I'm not sure what the individual in question means by that, but I'm sure the ultra-Orthodox education specialists who seemingly taught about the Holocaust did it in such a bad way, they made it difficult for the person quoted to grasp properly what was wrong, and how even gurus like the Satmar's founder Joel Teitelbaum abandoned constituents to be slaughtered by the nazis.

Another reason for the departure of some:

He notes that a significant number of people who leave – mostly men – do so because they were sexually abused within the community.

This is fully understandable why somebody would want to leave a community that takes no convincing action to deal with sex offenders. The gender segregation concept they go by today, which omits female imagery to boot, has undoubtably led to a lot of homosexuality, along with child rape. Why will they not consider how poor their approach to education is? Most likely because the spiritual leaders actually want to damage everyone's lives as badly as possible, another reason why nobody should be living according to their dictates and should certainly depart the community.

I wish the departers well in their quest for a better life outside the insularity of the ultra-Orthodox world, and I hope they'll be able to make sense of some vital subjects I'm sure the Haredi gurus of the clans made it difficult to comprehend.

Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, Judaism, misogyny, Moonbattery