Tounge In Check.

Disclaimer: Authoring this article does not by any means, mean that I support either Zalman Leib or Aron.(of course, here, I am not speaking for my father….)

You know things have gotten really nasty, when the JC decides to report on them. After all a newspaper which reports about the latest female rabbi in Brighton, as well as reviews Naomi Aldermans "Disobedience" in the same Issue, really doesn’t have much interest in Politics which involve Zalis and Aronis?

Until of course it gets nasty and dirty enough for Martin and Sophie (named at there Bris and Kisddish respectively as Mordechai and Soroh) sitting in there home in Cockfosters on Friday night, to exclaim, "well just look at these Ultra orthodox Pigs, all they ever care about is Money…"

Something distinctively remarkable about the Article is the fact that no one in Williamsburg would really talk to the JC's reporter. After all a Frummer Yid, will always be a Frummer Yid and they barely ever do wash there dirty laundry in public.
The article really does not contain much more information that what one could have read in the Obituaries that followed in the days after Reb Moshes ZT"AL death in the New York post and such…

There is no smoke with out fire and when it comes to Chassidish Politic, there are no exceptions. After all if not for Chassidish politics, what would all of the men discus in the Mikvah on Friday afternoon? Victoria Beckhams, latest haircut or Christiania Agulirias latest Single. I think not. Joewish made a point about how he was shocked to here a chassidsh man inquiring about the score last week. If he would have asked "Nu… vosu haltz by Zalman leib…" or "view feil Chassidim hot ge vein by Aron tish shavous? Zalman Keib hot ge hat mere? Nein? " would he have still been shocked then? But honestly which one is worse?

If we wouldn’t have these politics, which I think I can safely say are the doings of the Chassidm in oppose to there Rebbes, what would most of our men folk do on a Thursday night or Friday afternoon? Maybe be watching one the latest games? Huh?

Would the JC still be reporting about that? Imagine the latest headlines… "Ultra Orthodox in Stamford Hill discus football over there Shabbat afternoon Cholent" I think not.
Of course in the eyes of the Vad discussing football is wy worse than discussing the fact that R' halberstam Bumped into his Nephews Kallah at Mitzvah Tanz last week.

But in the eyes of heaven, some how I think He above would prefer us discussing Beckhams latest haircut over Zalman Leibs latest Tish. Neither are L'shem Shomayim but do the one that won't get u the sin.