My Jewish Identity Isn’t Based on Being Hated
<p>I went to a Channukah lighting ceremony and one of the key Rabbinical authorities in this country kept inserting every 3–5 minutes in his speeches how much we were hated and it came across as a form of fear-mongering to me.</p>
<p>The Ultra-Orthodox communities who do bad things to their children and wives in the Northeast United States use that same form of fear-mongering to their advantage: The world is unsafe so we have to live in extremely insular places and prevent our kids from going to college and being in secular spaces and they have to get married at 18–20 to people they don’t know, further locking them into a cycle of abuse and .</p>
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