A friend (read: brainwashing subject) told me he remembers going on a school trip with his Chassidic elementary school, with tour guide/media personality Dudi Zilbershlag.
As the class Rebbe gave him the Stare of Death, Zilbershlag told the young students that he does whatever mainstream rabbis say, so he wouldn’t actually enter the Temple Mount, yet “until today” he can’t figure out what the rabbis have against it…
Neshama Carlebach’s Learning to Believe Again is a poignant account of how she deals with knowing her father, Shlomo, was a sexual abuser. It got me thinking about the many times anti-abuse activists are told, “But, what about his family; they don’t deserve to suffer because of him.”
From FRUM FOLLIES, here.
Reprinted with permission.