Jewish Fatwa

I usually detest the word community because it is naive at best and racist at worst to group individuals together based on loose connections for the benefit of box ticking or stereotyping. Yet the word community seems to be fitting for our Jewish brethren, from the outside looking in they appear to stick together more than most and critique amongst them is relatively rare. For example, from a friend's Jewish employer I know that if someone Jewish hires someone from the community they cannot ever sack them lest they be ostracised by the rest of the community. Hence why this employer only hires from amongst the non-Jewish community! In terms of financial success, they have done well for such a small minority so they must be doing something right. Attempting to keep your fellow Jew or minority in employment is noble but there is apparently another sinister element to this mafioso type loyalty.

The New York Times reported that the Brooklyn DA recently arrested no less than 85 Jewish Orthodox men and women on charges of child sex abuse. This prompted 50 rabbis to sign a public denouncement in a Yiddish language denouncing the Hasidic family that snitched on the child abusers. They asked for any believer to kill the family that informed on fellow Jews. If only this story was about Muslims - it would have been the stuff of The Sun and Daily Mail dreams! Paedophiles Muslims and then a fatwa! Oh just imagine the headlines!

Further to that, in 1985 an Hasidic 'therapist', Avrohom Mondrowitz, was indicted for abusing five boys, but in the usual paedophile fashion, he was suspected of having abused more than 100 boys. He then fled to Israel, getting off scot-free until this very day as the real mafioso of the world - Israel, refuse to extradite him. Perhaps this is indicative of a bigger, political statement; the danger of loyalty trumping righteousness.

See also http://anbarrockny.blogspot.com/