Rechnitz's Lakewood Speech

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Loved every minute of Rechnitz's Lakewood speech

[churnbabychurn]

Loved every minute of Rechnitz's Lakewood speech

He blames his inferiority feelings amongst yeshiva guys on their elitist attitude.

Meh.

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He blames his inferiority feelings amongst yeshiva guys on their elitist attitude.

Meh.

True
But he is right about the schools crisis

[churnbabychurn]

True
But he is right about the schools crisis

There's definitely a crises.
But if people would have less gaavah, and just go to a school that would take them it would also help.
Did he mention this?

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There's definitely a crises.
But if people would have less gaavah, and just go to a school that would take them it would also help.
Did he mention this?

You're also right!
But that answer is true only seventy percent of the time

[TimT]

There's definitely a crises.
But if people would have less gaavah, and just go to a school that would take them it would also help.
Did he mention this?

Are there schools with room for lots of kids ?

[churnbabychurn]

Anyway advocating an open door policy is ridiculous

[David Smith]

Go try to get your daughter into a normal high school in Israel as a working American. Then come back to Lakewood to complain.

[yochiek93]

Go try to get your daughter into a normal high school in Israel as a working American. Then come back to Lakewood to complain.

That's a different reason totally

[cholent]

That's a different reason totally

Why?

[yochiek93]

Why?

The American Israeli kids are different then the Israelis.... Speak to them and you will see

[David Smith]

The American Israeli kids are different then the Israelis.... Speak to them and you will see

There are perfectly charedi families in Yerushalayim (not just Har Nof) that are getting their boys into normal yeshivas (although also no walk in the park) and hit a brick wall when they start working on their perfectly normal, acclimated, in-Israeli-school-from-birth daughters.

[mlomni]

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/379559/video-a-path-breaking-speech-by-r-shlomo-yehudah-rechnitz-about-serious-issue-facing-lakewood-community.html

I can t remember the last time there were this many comments on one article posted on the YWN

[yochiek93]

There are perfectly charedi families in Yerushalayim (not just Har Nof) that are getting their boys into normal yeshivas (although also no walk in the park) and hit a brick wall when they start working on their perfectly normal, acclimated, in-Israeli-school-from-birth daughters.

I know plenty of these families I know what they go through
I'm not saying its normal but the reason behind it is different

[aygart]

You're also right!
But that answer is true only seventy percent of the time

The other thirty percent almostr all get in to schools very quickly once they start working on the ones who didn't get in.

[Aaaron]

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/379559/video-a-path-breaking-speech-by-r-shlomo-yehudah-rechnitz-about-serious-issue-facing-lakewood-community.html

I can t remember the last time there were this many comments on one article posted on the YWN

Great speech!  Didn't think I'd be able to sit through the whole thing.

[churnbabychurn]

Let me explain with a true story:
Im in a Lakewood park a few months ago, I observe two families;
1)The father is wearing skin-tight black jeans, a pink lacoste shirt, a small black yalmuka. The wife is sitting on a bench with a shaital almost waist length, a bright colored tight top and a short skirt with sandals, no socks.-Both are busy on their iphones. The three boys standing by the lake were advised by their mother to remove their yalmukas so they would not fall in water. With their matching "mushroom" style hair cuts and non jewish clothing, at first I thought the kids where non jews...
2) During bein hasdorim, the father with a black bushy beard, a threadbare suit and a sefer in hand pushes his yingelach in the swing- their peyos flying, while he pushes a second hand stroller. the wife is hard at work teaching in a local beis yakov. 
This is lakewood today and this is why kids who come from families that have radically different priorities dont go to the same school school.
Are there any questions?

Is why the demand for an open door policy is ridiculous.

Lakewood is a mixed town. - It ranges from very modern to ultra spiritual.

Why can't the yeshiva families who choose not to live in flatbush/ 5 towns because they wanted to focus more on the spirituality, be allowed to be mechanech their children in which ever way they want? Without being forced to bring up their kids in "a big city".

[skyguy918]

Is why the demand for an open door policy is ridiculous.

Lakewood is a mixed town. - It ranges from very modern to ultra spiritual.

Why can't the yeshiva families who choose not to live in flatbush/ 5 towns because they wanted to focus more on the spirituality, be allowed to be mechanech their children in which ever way they want? Without being forced to bring up their kids in "a big city".

So the Lacoste family is trying to get into the super yeshivish place?

[Aaaron]

So the Lacoste family is trying to get into the super yeshivish place?

That's exactly what I want to know.  I know absolutely nothing about the school situation in Lakewood, but I still enjoyed the speech.  What types of kids/families are not being let into what types of schools?

[churnbabychurn]

So the Lacoste family is trying to get into the super yeshivish place?

They wouldn't waste their time trying...

I posted the extreme example, but the point is that generally speaking, accepting kids by family type is not necessarily "gaavah".
Fwiu, rechnitz is demanding an open door policy where any " shomer shabbos " can get it.
This is simply unrealistic and IMHO wrong.