Uodated 1/2/2020/
RED BERETS AND RED JACKETS WITH “Guardian Angels” stenciled on them once again patrol neighborhoods where hasidic Jews reside.
According to the arch Angel, Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels were invited into the several hasidic communities by the community leaders.1
The question is WHY?
THE OBVIOUS ANSWER is because hasidic Jews are easy targets. Unlike “modern Orthodox” and non-observant Jews who either hide their peyot and tzit-tzit or have abandoned them altogether, the hasidim are easy to identify as Jews.
One less obvious answer is that attacks on hasidic Jews cause the politicians to get on their soap boxes to offer quotable words for the NY Times and local tv.
But the REAL reason the Guardian Angels were invited back is a reason the hasidic Jews should be embarrassed to admit:
They refuse to defend themselves
"And we must be wary of those who say that guns are the answer. From the time that haredi children are very small, we learn to despise weapons. The words of my teacher ring in my ears: “Our strength is only with our mouth (praying to the Almighty).” When we learned the Talmud tractate of Shabbat, the teacher pointed out that the sages say (63a) that a person is not allowed to go around with a weapon on the Sabbath because their purpose is “shameful,” they are a disgusting item. We always heard from our religious leaders that the weapon of a Jew is the voice of Jacob (Genesis 27:22)."
Shimon Rolnitzky, JTA opinion page, https://tinyurl.com/vsag7oq
Jews used to defend themselves.
We just finished recalling the feats of the Maccabees. The hanukiot are barely put away.
The Jews of the Warsaw ghetto defended themselves and embarrassed the nazis before the world (that still ignored the Jews’ plight).
The Jews — EURO-JEWS — that followed Jabotinsky, the ones who populated LIHI and defended themselves.
Jews served in the militaries of the U.S. and its allies during World War 2.
This scrivener personally knows an Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbi who served in Viet Nam with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles.
The IDF, a mixed bag to Ashkenazi, Sefardi, and Mizrachi Jews repeatedly defended not only themselves but all of Israel from invading Arab armies.
Jewish self-defense is nothing new.
Granted, we did not win EVERY battle, but we DID defend ourselves.
One of the best known unarmed fighting techniques, one that is taught in police academies throughout the Western world, is an Israeli “invention”: Krav Maga.
Israel also produces a variety of weapons, mostly for the military, but some that can be used by civilians when local governments allow non-criminals to have weapons.
But the hasidic Jews of New York, despite being politically conservative, won’t defend themselves.
Basic, anyone can do it, measures such as walking in groups, the larger the better.
Carrying bats or boards; surely these hasidic neighborhoods have an eruv.
Their young hasids don’t take Krav Maga classes.
Their women know little about self-protection.
Let the police or Guardian Angels protect us.
The police are too few and too far between to patrol every street of every hasidic neighborhood. Even in “less dangerous” neighborhoods; that is, non-hasidic neighborhoods, expecting instant police presence is foolish.
MEANWHILE, there are those that claim Sliwa is as bad as the people who attack Jews. The Yeshiva World web site includes an op-ed audio of what it considers Sliwa attacks on the hasidic community.
Interestingly, most of the comments favor Sliwa and take Yeshiva World’s op-ed writer to task.2
The stupidity of failing to learn self-defense measures is not limited to hasidim.
Leftist Jews also are happy to let someone else defend them.
It seems the only Jews who are prepared to defend themselves are Israeli ex-pats, and even some of them are unprepared.
Fortunately, not all communities have strict gun controls — read "where only criminals have guns." We DO need strict gun laws, starting with background checks, a requirement to practice with the weapon, and education to know when, and when not, to shoot.
Those people who attack Jews are bullies. The only way to deal with a bully is to meet the bully on his (or her) terms. It may not be politically correct, but force may be the only thing the bully understands. Once we have the bully’s attention, THEN the psycho-babble people can try to re-educate the bully.
When I was growing up in Miami, I quickly learned that if someone pushed me, I needed to push back — harder. That usually ended the confrontation.
Sources
1. https://youtu.be/e2VPi93zJxw
2. Yeshiva World: https://tinyurl.com/va2jqca
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