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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Hasidic community in Brooklyn, and their extensions in Rockland, Orange, and other counties in NY and elsewhere are not representative of the Jewish community.  It's an insular cult that shuns outsiders and anyone who leaves the community.  They don't educate their boys outside of religious instruction, so the men are incapable of supporting their very large families that they have because they marry as teenagers.  They control access to the Internet so community members won't understand the outside world.  They vote as they are told, in a bloc, so they control local politicians.  They disproportionately use public services like food stamps and Medicaid, yet have the money to build illegal structures to house their population.

Because their origins are Jewish, they claim anti-Semitism anytime they are opposed.  I think their success may turn out to be their demise, because there is finally a pushback because the exponential growth is unsustainable when they need the largesse of the surrounding communities to survive.  Pushback is coming - the editorial is one small example of it. [/quote]

What does this have to do with supporting separate women's swimming hours for Muslim women but not Jewish women? They claim anti-Semitism bc for basically the same accommodation (women's only swimming hours in a public pool), the community supporting the Muslim women was praised and the one supporting the Jewish women were criticized. Its hard to see the double standard as anything but anti-Semitic.[/quote]

The Muslim women are given two hours a week, on a Saturday evening which is presumably a low-use time for the pool.  The Hasidic women are given three weekday morning, and Sunday afternoons, all of which are likely to be high use times.  That difference matters.

Disagreeing with something that Jewish people want is not automatically anti-Semitic.[/quote]

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