Opuscula Euro-Jews depend On Angels to defend Them in New York

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?

Curtis Sliwa talking to reporters about the Guardian Angels return to protect hasidim. (Screen capture: https://youtu.be/e2VPi93zJxw)

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 101^st 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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Opuscula Maybe it’s time To rethink about Guns at minyans

While this entry started with Jews as the sole subject, an article recently came to my attention titled A look at attacks on houses of worship over last decade (https://tinyurl.com/y6sqkp35)

Prehaps what applies to us may apply to others, too.

 

 
IT SEEMS IT IS “OPEN SEASON” ON Jews and the “hunters” go where they can find their prey.

Synagogues, kosher markets, Jewish schools, kosher restaurants, all places where Jews congregate.

Jews are not known as the type people to carry weapons of self-defense. Lots of rabbis (foolishly) prohibit firearms in the synagogues, etc.

MY SON THE COP reminds me that people should not depend on the police to arrive immediately after a Jew hater makes an appearance. There simply are too few cops to be everywhere at once, quotes my First Born.

In the interest of being politically correct, “cops” will be referred to as “LEO”s or Law Enforcement Officers. This is an umbrella term covering sworn officers, from the municipal to federal level.

Is anyplace safe?

In a word: NO.

Do Jews need to be alert for any easily-identifiable threat, e.g., skinheads, Muslim “extremists,” neo-nazis, militant blacks.

Again, in a word: YES.

But they also must be alert for those folks who are “just plain crazy.”

I live in a “gated community” in south Florida.

The subdivision has more than 400 residences. Of that number, perhaps 70% are owned and occupied by Jews. Not all are observant, to be sure, but recall the nazis didn’t make a distinction between observant and non-observant Jews — for the nazis then and today’s Jew haters, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew . . . and, therefore, a target.

Sometimes the person is not necessarily a Jew hater; the person can just be mentally incompetent — crazy. We recently had an “event” in the subdivision where a father and his children were at one of the lakes (retention ponds) when an elderly woman threatened the man and his children with a gun. The man, who had a concealed weapon permit, showed her he, too, had a firearm and she retreated. The local LEOs came, but in the end, nothing was done to prevent recurrence.

Armed and dangerous

There are two problems with the average Jew carrying a firearm.

One: The person — women can shoot, too — needs to practice until they are proficient with the weapon.

That means

Meeting the requirements to own and carry a firearm

Practicing at a gun range to assure the person can hit the target

Knowing when, and — more importantly, when not — to draw the weapon.

These are three measurable things that can be practiced.

The “crunch” comes — and no one knows until the final second — when it is time to point the gun at a threat and shoot the threat.

A recent event in south Florida that made the network news had four people killed in a gun battle between LEOs and two robbers in a stolen UPS truck.

It’s still being sorted out, but the question is ”Whose bullets killed the UPS driver and an innocent bystander? The robbers or the LEOs." Hundreds of rounds were fired.

Is it safe to assume that the LEOs were all highly trained marksmen?

Back to the one-word response: NO, at least in the opinion of my son the LEO. One of his sergeants IS a sharpshooter, but most LEOs in my son’s department are not as accomplished.

The obvious question locally is: “Why didn’t the local LEOs wait for sharpshooters to “take out” the robbers?” The initial response was the local LEOs were afraid what did happen — innocents shot — would happen so someone gave the order to open fire and not wait for the sharpshooters. Hindsight confirms that was a mistake.

On the other hand

Jews who ARE proficient with sidearms AND are legally permitted to carry a firearm, should be allowed to carry a firearm in any place Jews congregate: synagogues, kosher markets, Jewish schools, kosher restaurants, etc.

While some states have open carry laws — the firearm is exposed for all to see — unless the person is a guard, my preference would be concealed carry.

Flashing a sidearm may disconcerting to many. In non-open carry states, it could get the person with the gun arrested; that’s counter-productive.

I’ve always wondered, when I enter a building with a sign posted on the entrance (right) stating NO FIREARMS ALLOWED (or words to that effect) if a person bent on murder will abide by the prohibition and, if the person enters and injures (or kills) me, can I or my survivors sue the property owners and occupants for failing to allow me to defend myself. (I am not a lawyer and I don’t play one on tv.)

For too long Jews — particularly European Jews — have had a well-deserved reputation of ignoring the reality of Jewish hatred wherever they live.

For far too long Jews — particularly European Jews — have been in the pockets of leftists who care not a whit for Jews.

As we approach Hanukah 5780 — first wick after dark on Sunday, December 22 — perhaps it is time to give more than just a nod to the Maccabees of old.

We used to be fighters, even if we failed to win EVERY battle.

Jabotinsky ’s Jews were fighters.

The Jews of the Warsaw ghetto were fighters.

The Jews of the Irgun and Stern (LEHI) were fighters.

THE ONLY WAY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS IS TO SHOW THE JEW-HATERS THAT WE WILL FIGHT BACK.

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