Israel – Dangerous Homegrown Punks Terrorize Bnei Brak Neighborhood

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    Bnei Brak, Israel – Vandals slashed tires on nearly 30 cars, torched a synagogue and burned a woodwork shop between Friday and Saturday night.

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    ‪“Some of the local kids who were probably kicked out of their homes gathered here and decided to spend the night in the synagogue,” one local resident said. “They tore down the Torah ark covering to sleep under it, and they took all the prayer shawls in the synagogue to use as sheets. A fire broke out when they burnt prayer books, and the whole wall was set aflame. This is pure vandalism.”

    One yeshiva student spoke of his personal experience about how dangerous Bnei Brak can be late at night. “Two punks came over, and they were holding a glass bottle. They shattered it on my neck. With what was left after the bottle was broken, they tried to stab me. I was rushed bleeding to the hospital where pieces of glass were extracted and I was told that it almost reached my main artery. Two weeks later my uncle who is a great rabbi here walked through the streets, and two punks came over and started pulling his beard and hitting him.”

    Jews sometimes suffer assaults and harassment by Arabs or groups of immigrants defining themselves as neo-Nazis in other Israeli cities, but Bnei Brak is dealing with a homegrown menace. “They come from good families who live here in the area, they leave the way of their families and they allow themselves anything,” one person said.

    “They have no day or night, they have no boundaries and we don’t see the police doing anything. When we call the police and complain about the harassment, we notice they don’t come at all or they come with the siren and blazing lights and that’s enough for them to run away and come back the next time.”


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    It is really not the police job to stop these lost souls, the community as a whole must have alternative yeshivas \ vocations school, this is a problem in most Charedi communities, not everyone is geared towards an all Charedi style yeshiva

    Monsey Man
    Monsey Man
    14 years ago

    Did his uncle the “great rabbi” ever do anything to help these kids?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Stop The Molesters And You Will See A End To This Crazy Mad Behavior

    OJoe
    OJoe
    14 years ago

    Bingo. any society in which the system is “one size fits all” will create a serious problem for itself. No-one is immune, but the situation is made far worse this way.

    physical activity
    physical activity
    14 years ago

    Time to collect money to build a gym equipped with basketball hoops, ping pong tables, pool tables and exercise equipment. These boys need wholesome physical activities and if it ignored even worse will occur.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Makes me wonder what they experienced in the homes of the “good families who live here in the area” that they didn’t just “leave the way of their families” but seem to want to spit on the way of life in which they were raised.

    Most famalies in America during the first half of the 20th century lost children to the secular life style but very few of them left with such venom in them that they came back to destroy us. Plenty of them while not shomer shabbos themselves went out of their way to not rub it into the faces of their parents.

    What happened to these kids?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    what i dont understand is some kids want to leave yeshiva party get drunk and smoke

    but what connection does stabbing and burning sefarim have to do with them there is a miscategorization here kids being rowdy always was but stabbing and burning down shuls is something else

    this article is written in a confusing way

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    if you throw rocks at the cops and turn over thier vehicles during the hafganot and burn garbage bins in your town then why should they help u when you call them for this? either you let thim them in when they want or dont bother calling them.

    Chana
    Chana
    14 years ago

    Just like parents learn the Halachos they need to know before they get married they should also get professional training on how to raise their children as soon as the mother becomes pregnant

    help the kids
    help the kids
    14 years ago

    Do not call the police and arrest the kids, bring them to a rec center and let them have something to do with all the free time on their hands.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    If it would be a girl dressed unmodest they would know how to deal with it.

    All of a sudden when it comes to homegrown dropouts they don’t know what to do.

    In Brooklyn these Shomerim would take care of the kids.

    True these kids need help and warmth, but if they vandalize and terrorize a neighborhood they should be dealt with an iron fist.

    Organize a patrol and make an example of a few kids and it will stop

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    You have to wonder why these kids are living on the streets and nobody offered them shelter.

    eitza geber
    eitza geber
    14 years ago

    trying to outdo each other in todays system like geting the best chavrusa who is the biger lamdan etc. does not help these boys .

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Maybe if Shas would not let their members vote to agree to allow the PM to give away parts of Eretz Yisroel (including Kivrei Tzadikim like Kever Yosef in Shcem) to goyim who want to kill us Hashem wouldn’t let these children go off the derech hatorah

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I think those putting the blame on the chareidi community are mistaken.I work with modern orthodox American kids, from observant families, who at times have shown similar behavior, or misbehavior.There is no segment of the religious community that is free of this problem. Much creativity and resources on the part of parents, communiyies and schools are needed to alleviate this growing challenge.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Most of the solutions you guys are coming up with seem to think that these are nice, normal, well adjusted, middle class families with kids just letting out their wild streak. I think we need to view this as quite the opposite. These kids come from a community where child abusers go unpunished, violence against the police and other people who aren’t “frum enough” is considered “OK” and presumably numerous social problems (physical and emotional abuse at home etc.) abound and are not being dealt with because social workers aren’t seen as acceptable. These kids live in squalor and poverty. These kids are growing up in a toxic environment and lashing out against it using the kochos that their parents have instilled in them and until the ghettoed off segment of charedi Judaism realizes that this isnt the 18th century and we have nice new ways of dealing with social problems where nobody has to go to the hospital and nobody has to suffer in silence, these types of problems will abound. Think about it this way – a lot of kids R”L go off the derech, but must of the time this just means that they get into other things and drift away. Shbavs are always in the news for this type of brazenly violent desecration of Judaism in a way which makes their equivalents in the less “sheltered” communities look like nothing.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Maybe because Agudat Israel supported Ariel Sharon’s Gush Katif (Gaza) disengagement plan of 2005 in order to get Money for their Yeshivahs knowing that Gush Katif was going to be given to terrorists who will kill jews. Hashem allowed these frum children to go off the Derech Hatorah to show you can’t build Torah by accepting money (as a bribe) to allow someone to put Jewish lives in danger.
    It says :עבודה זרה, גילוי עריות ושפיכות דמים יהרג ולא יעבוד

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The idea of any community handling matters like these “off the books” has not and will never work. It can only get worse. And, unless the entire kollel becomes involved and puts these things out in the open, it is my belief that it will continue.