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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you are acting as if they are all completely closed off to outsiders, and that's not true.

On a trip to NY, my mother wanted to show me where her grandmother lived in the 1930s - in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Jewish, not Hasidic.) We dressed modestly (long skirts, covered arms) to show respect but we didn't don wigs or anything. We walked into the apartment building and up the stairs, to the 3rd floor, and talked in front of the door to the apartment.

The door opened slightly, and a young Hasidic woman asked if she could help us, and we told her that my great-grandma lived here 80 years ago. She opened the door and welcomed us in, showing every room of the place. She was very warm and polite, and we had a nice conversation.

Then, on the way back to the subway, we stopped another Hasidic woman for directions to a drug store (I'll spare you the details), and she was as nice as could be also. Perfect English, as well.

Our final stop was for lunch, in an obviously strictly kosher restaurant with lots of Hasids. Everyone was cordial to us there, as well.

Point is....they are an extreme fringe group, but let's not paint them all as horrible people. [/quote]

I don't think anyone is saying that individual community members are not nice people, I'm sure they are, but they function as a cult and their leadership controls them and their votes to benefit themselves.   The fact that you had a pleasant afternoon doesn't take away from their decimation of the East Ramapo school district for example.  [/quote]

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