The "Orthonuts" mount a hill overlooking a roadway in Israel on a Shabat to throw stones and rocks at passing cars.
Never mind that stones and rocks on Shabat are "mukseh."
Never mind that someone could be injured or killed.
The "Orthonuts" of Bnai Brak string a chain across a roadway before Shabat
Too bad a motorcycle rider failed to see the chain in the dark and died.
The "Orthonuts" of Bet Shemesh spit on properly dressed elementary school girls going to school next door to their neighborhood.
Never mind that the child was properly dressed for almost any place but "their" neighborhood.
All the above is true; it happed and in some cases still is happening.
But are these people really Orthodox?
Well, they wear black hats and gartels. Their wives cover their faces with burkas like a Moslem.
As a matter of fact, these "Orthonuts" act like Muslims, extremist Muslims.
Merriam Webster Online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthodox) defines "orthodox" as
conforming to established doctrine especially in religion
By all accounts the "established doctrine" is NOT Judaism, certainly not any Judaism I know about.
These same "Orthonuts" who throw rocks at passing cars on Shabat also are the ones that refuse to accept Israel as their nation - they prefer the rule of the PA (and for my part, the PA can have them, albeit I know that not all denizens of Mea Sharim are that brand of "Orthodox.")
There ARE tolerant black hats.
There are bigoted heloneem - non-observant or minimally observant Jews - who hate black hats just because they wear black hats.
Somewhere along the line we - Jews - seem to have forgotten why the Bet haMikdash was destroyed.
We don't have a Temple now, but we do have a state - Israel - that can be destroyed by its own people by their behavior toward their fellow Jews - regardless of their level of observance.
The country is being split into more fractions than there are political parties.
The left/liberals are pulling in one direction, the right in another, and the Orthonuts in still another.
At least a relative quiet reigns between many Sephardi/Mizrachi Jews and Ashkenazim, the Rishion L'Zion's family not-withstanding.
Israel has enough problems; it doesn't need more "Orthonuts."
We don't need them any where else, either.
Sometimes it's difficult, but
