Many people have accused blogs of being a complete and ineffective waste of time. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been accused of that or worse. Obviously I disagree. I have clear and unequivocal evidence where posts that I have written precipitated in some very positive results. And in what possible way can a discussion of the issues that affect Klal Yisroel ever be a bad thing… as long as it is done in a relatively respectful, if passionate manner?
The evidence of even greater impact can be found on other blogs as well. Today, my friends, is one of those days. Dov Bear has a post up today that can change what has become an almost guaranteed Chilul HaShem on those ever more frequent occasions when it happens.
Anyone who has reads this blog on a regular basis knows what is going on in Ramat Bet Shemesh. A group of Chassidic criminals originally from Meah Shearim and its environs now live in Ramat Bet Shemesh B. They now ride roughshod on their newly adopted community in order to force their extreme Tznius standards on the public. They resort to violence. Much of which has caused physical harm to innocent people.
There people are not an ad hoc group. They are organized. They have leaders. They are, in short, a gang… no less then the gangs that roam the streets of inner cities that operate by their own vigilante rules. Thus far they have acted freely and with impunity. But this is about to end.
Informed sources have told me that the police are now heavily involved. A serious investigation is talking place. Heads will hopefully roll.
Their time is about to be up. They are no longer going to be able to operate under the radar. In the meantime there are things we can do. We know their names and Dov Bear has published them. Some of them along with their cellphone numbers. I am pleased to do the same. Here they are:
Moishe Friedman
Cellphone Number 972-57-317-7844
Chaim Luzer Heimlich
Cellphone Number 972-57-319-9218
Shea Rosenberger
(Number not available)
It’s time these people got a taste of their own medicine while we await law enforcement in Israel to do its job. I have been told that it is already happening. Tires have been slashed. I don’t advocate doing this at all, But I can’t help feeling a sense of justice about it.
And as Dov Bear suggests:
E-mail charedi knesset members. Ask them to support the police. Ask them to denounce the thugs. You can start with
MK Moshe Gafni [mgafni@knesset.gov.il]
MK Meir Porush [mporush@knesset.gov.il] and
MK Yaakov Litzman [litzman@knesset.gov.il]
I am told the local Degel Hatora representatives, Moshe Montag and Shmuel Greenberg, are working to HELP the extremists get free land for their yeshiva. When you contact the Charedi MKs tell them to order Montag and Greenberg to stop supporting extremists hooligans.You can also call the men I've named --though please be cordial and polite. Ask questions if you doubt any of the details reported here, and politely ask them to desist.
Could not agree more.
Thank you Dov Bear.
