Showing posts with label Barbara Bradley Hagerty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbara Bradley Hagerty. Show all posts

Monday, February 2, 2009

Who's Sad in America?

THESE FORMER HASIDIC GUYS are.

I can't hardly breathe, listening to their story on NPR.

Abuse Scandal Plagues Hasidic Jews In Brooklyn
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty



Keep your empathy electric ... and blood off your prayer shawl.

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A note about the photo: Volunteers from the ultra-Orthodox Zaka rescue organization hold up a victim's bloody prayer shawl in the library of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva March 6, 2008 in Jerusalem. Eight Jewish students were killed and nine more wounded when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the seminary and opened fire before he was shot dead by armed students. (Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO via Getty Images)