Otto Von Bismarck once quipped, “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Bans are like sausages, a melange of ingredients that are only held together by the casing of the final printed product. If you want to understand a ban disregard the text. Pay attention to the players who came together to stuff the casing and then sell the sausage. This ban is about factional politics. It is about Vito Lopez and David Greenfield against Dov Hikind and some other politicians. It is aboutMatzav and Yeshiva World News attacking a very successful competitor, Vos Iz Neias. It is about the business interests of BMG. It is about politics, not about tzniusor kovod hatorah.Eating disorders a problem among haredim on Ynet:
Israel has one of the highest rates of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating in the world, said Dr. Yael Latter of the University of Haifa. No organization tracks the numbers of eating disorders among Jewish women, which experts say is partly because of a cultural reluctance to divulge the illness. Studies in different countries and Latzer's research, however, indicate a high rate in Israel.Reversing the Hierarchy on Rationalist Judaism:
For anti-rationalists, the Gedolim are much more important than the Rishonim. But even the Gedolim are only respected and followed insofar as their views concord with what the anti-rationalist himself considers legitimate. Amazingly, the hierarchy of rabbinic authority that they loudly claim to be true, is the complete opposite of the one that they actually follow.
A Narrow Bridge, film about Sexual Abuse in the Frum Community now on YouTube via FailedMessiah:
Not very professional but, hey, it's a start.
Not very professional but, hey, it's a start.
More subtitled Nira rants-please?? :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for including part of post about bans and linking back to my post.
ReplyDeleteYou chose my last paragraph. Now that I look at it, I realize that you exactly chose the core of my argument.
Just wait-- some enterprising fellow will devise an ocular device guaranteed to thwart the ability of the user to witness forbidden sights.
ReplyDeleteThe lenses will turn black in the presence of pritzus. They'll probably market them under the name: Yirei-Bans
Its hard to take it seriously. You can't help but giggle at the cheesy plot and horrible acting. My drama club in highschool were better than this lot
ReplyDeleteBut if they trully want to tackle sexual abuse then rather than making movies they need to publically address the insularity and infallible status of the rabbis that allows this happen in the first place
YL: My pleasure!
ReplyDeleteSY: What? :P
Shalmo: true, but a milestone nevertheless.