Anarchy Chassidim in Williamsburg

The New York Post reports:


A furious bus driver says two Hasidic scofflaws have moved a city no-parking sign, cementing it into the sidewalk in front of a Williamsburg yeshiva — and squeezing out an MTA bus stop.

“There was no way I could park at the bus stop,” fumed Jamar Perry, who spied the sign heist on Franklin Avenue while driving the B48.

“Two Jewish guys were moving the pole. I saw them resetting it. They had fresh cement and made it look professionally done.”

The relocated sign stands about 30 feet from the bus stop on Franklin just north of Flushing Avenue. It prevents cars from parking in front of Yeshiva Bnos Ahavas Israel so the religious school’s yellow buses can illegally park at the curb.
 

Fresh concrete can be seen as a yeshiva bus sits near an allegedly relocated sign in Williamsburg.

But what burns Perry, 39 and a four-year MTA employee, is the obstacle course it has created for his riders. Because of the parked yellow buses, city buses can’t pull into the stop and instead must idle in the middle of the street.

“When you’re in the middle of the street, bicyclists and motorcycles fly through there,” he said.

“You’re also unable to pick up a wheelchair at that stop because you can’t pull in. We’d have to nose in, and that’s against the law.”

Passengers are also fed up with the chosen parking.

“There’s a school bus that parks here every day,” said Mohsen, 26, an engineer who commutes to Bed-Stuy and would only give his first name. “To catch the bus, you have to go to the middle of the street and shake your hands. All the people are having the same problem.”

Perry suspects the sign stealers he saw in October had the chutzpah to grab the sign from around the corner on Flushing Avenue after a car knocked it down.

“I informed the union about it. I made a few complaints,” he said. “Nobody’s done anything.”
Tommy McNally, a safety officer from the Transit Workers Union, says sign-swapping “is a common problem in the Hasidic community.”

“These guys are just constantly moving these signs,” he said.

Bill Thompson -- For or Against Metzitzah B'peh

Failed Messiah reports on a video showing an orthodox rabbi asking mayoral candidate Bill Thompson on the issue of metzitzah b'peh.  Failed Messiah learned to become a rabbi at one point of his life.  There are basic rules he knows or should know.

Rule # 1.  That which has a consistent record shall not be changed, unless there is reason to believe otherwise (chazoka).

Rule # 2. Majority rules.

The applicality of these rules make a huge difference as to how and when a person may violate the Sabbath or drink milk from a cow.

There is always a risk of a natural death, and we never know when that day will be.  However, I cannot drive to the hospital on the Sabbath or wear a heart monitor because some people have sudden strokes.  The reasons are for the two rules above.  First, I as an individual never had a stroke, thank God.  Second, most people do not have random strokes.

Another law in Judaism is that milk from a sick cow is not Kosher.  A cow is considered to be sick if it will die within one year.  However, there is fool-proof way to know if the cow will live for at least a year without killing the cow and checking its lungs.  Since this cow has a record of being healthy, and most cows live more than one year, the milk is therefore kosher.

The same law applies to metzitzah b'peh.  Since the individual mohel has a clean health record and most people do not have herpes, there is no halachic risk of death for the child.  A mohel who knows that he does have herpes and performs metzitzah b'peh is a murderer and we should have laws penalizing murderers.  But the current law penalizes Orthodox Jews.

I have previously stated that Hershel Schachter, a rabbi at Yeshiva University, is responsible for the child abuse that occured in Yeshiva University.  The difference there is that a reason to believe otherwise (the child's testimony) is valid, and according to Torah law, Schachter should have at the very least taken precautionary measures.  

There are a couple of other issues I disagree with Failed Messiah.  First, Bill Thompson only promises to "sit down and have a conversation" with the rabbis.  This is a far cry from another mayoral candidate Erick Salgado who according to his spokesman, Joseph Hayon, "will do everything he can to make sure that the circumcision regulation (Metzitzah B'peh) will be repealed"

Also, the city agency's "public hearings" are nothing but show.  Many people showed up against the MTA price increases that mayoral candidate Joe Lhota is directly responsible for, and the price still went up.  Zoning public hearings are also just for show.  $omething happen$ behind the $cene$ that no one i$ aware of.  

If I were to guess who pulled the strings behind the scenes during the "public hearing" of metzitzah b'peh, it would be the gay groups.  They hate Orthodox Jews more than the "off the derech" crowd.    This would explain why Thompson is non-committal to repealing the metzitzah b'peh.  Should he take a strong position supporting metzitzah b'peh, like Erick Salgado, he would lose his non-Quinn LGBT support .  I don't get it.  Yidel Perlstein isn't voting for Thompson.  

In reality, more people die from drunk driving than from metzitzah b'peh.  Since the politicians are the ones doing most of the drinking, there will be no stricter laws against drunk driving.

The topping is that the rabbi talking to Thompson says that metzitzah b'peh is a red line issue.  Sorry rabbi, but research doesn't show me anywhere a violation of Torah law to vote or not to vote for a candidate based on metzitzah b'peh.  I did find one on gay marriage.  Yidel Perlstein holds it only applies to men.

The rabbi is either completely oblivious in politics, lied to Thompson, or is a denier of God's Torah (think Leviticus).  Either way, he should be removed as rabbi.