Tel-Chai Nation

This is something the following report on Yad L'Achim's spotlighted in their efforts to help Jewish women leave horrifying relationships with Muslim men:

Over one-third of Jewish women who reach out for assistance in leaving abusive relationships with Arab men grew up in Orthodox Jewish families, an anti-assimilation group said Tuesday.

The Yad L'Achim said that some 35% of the girls and young women it is helping to extricate from relationships with Arabs come from religious and haredi homes.

The organization's counter-assimilation department explains that this phenomenon cuts across all sectors, without exception. Victims include girls from prestigious seminaries, and even those in elementary school.

The report also said singled out four situations where within religious communities where young women were most likely to become romantically involved with Arab men:

1. Drivers hired to transport students to school or camp. In many instances, there is no responsible adult supervision to keep an eye on things, allowing for small gestures between the driver and the student that can evolve into terrible tragedies.

2. Workers in supermarkets. Girls who are sent to the store to do the family shopping encounter Arab workers offering friendly assistance, and enter into conversations that can develop into relationships. In some cases, the victims are inexperienced cashiers. In others, it's women at home receiving deliveries.

3. Construction workers. Yad L'Achim is involved in a number of very difficult cases that began with casual contact between girls who were home alone and laborers doing renovations or at nearby construction sites.

4. Pharmacists and doctors. These are respected professionals, who are viewed as trustworthy.

The reason Haredi girls could be vulnerable to this terrible problem, as the list notes, is because of the cheap choices made by their gurus for who should be hired to drive the bus. Apparently, it's rarely Jewish men of non-Haredi background hired for the job, and in many cases, they won't hire even Haredi women to drive the buses either. Even doctors of Muslim background can be cause for concern, since all the protected class status lavished upon them by the left is also encouraging them to do what they are to badly influence the girls in focus.

Suri Kostlitz, coordinator of Yad L'Achim's counter-assimilation department, said that the innocence of religious young women and their sheltered upbringing makes them more vulnerable to be drawn into unhealthy relationships. Other factors that make them easy targets is that they are taught to be obedient and respectful, making it more difficult for them to say no to adults.

When there is a crisis in the family or the girl suffers from low self esteem, the situation is ripe for disaster.

The report recommends to parents and school staffers that they keep an eye open to warning lights that require immediate attention. These include: sudden absences from class; poor performance at school; fatigue and inability to concentrate; a tendency to isolate; refusal to consider or even hear of shidduch [marriage match] offers; an increase in the amount of time spent on the phone; an exaggerated concern with outer appearance.

On that latter note, one could argue the obsession with modest dress is harming a lot of girls' psyche and well-being. Hence, the low self-esteem. And I'm sure there'd be validity to that as well. But it's certainly making sense that by not teaching a lot of religious girls how to understand what goes on in the outside world as we currently know it is also causing them damage.

I think this is why the Haredis have to be open to approving of non-Haredi Jewish boys asking to begin relationships with those girls of Haredi background, and if a more positive relation develops that's safe for the girl, let them fall in love. Will the Haredi gurus consider?

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, haredi corruption, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, misogyny, Moonbattery, sexual violence