Maybe it was in part in response to these appalling facts (not to mention systemic welfare fraud in some of these communities), appearing prominently in the New York Times, that the State Board of Education just announced serious new secular education requirements, along with serious penalties (loss of funding; possible closing of schools inspectors find noncompliant) for ignoring them. It’s one thing for us to watch Israel, a Jewish state, suffer demographic catastrophe because of its enormous, ignorant, and overwhelmingly state-dependent ultra orthodox population; it’s another for our proudly secular nation to underwrite such destructive collective behavior. (Speaking of which.)
Although the relevant rabbis haven’t quite called Andrew Cuomo Hitler yet, they’re getting there. And though the whole spectacle is on some level laughable, keep in mind that in Israel the ultra orthodox are quite capable of violence, and we can expect something of the same here as our country attempts to deal with a very angry reactionary force within it.
December 17th, 2018 at 3:53PM
Well, systemic welfare fraud and reliance on government funding for virtually all aspects of life is probably the saving grace for them in the eyes of De Blasio and Cuomo.
December 18th, 2018 at 9:59AM
tp: I’m afraid the explanation is far simpler: Big Monolithic Voting Block.