[RBS] Let's Not Be Silent

[Avrohom Leventhal]

The behavior affecting the innocent children at Orot Banot is intolerable. 
The silence from RBSA is equally intolerable.

The time has come to express our support to the girls,their parents and the 
entire Givat Sharet community at large. One can only imagine the thoughts 
running through the minds of these young and impressionable girls as they 
trek off to school each day. Will I be screamed at? Will someone try to 
throw something at me? There has been a need to bring therapists into the 
school to help the kids.

Can you imagine?

How would we feel if our children would be terrified to go to or return from 
school? What is most concerning is that the source of this fear is other 
Jews!

This is the time to show achdus and unity for others in our own community. 
Let us show these children that it is in fact only a very small group that 
behaves in such a way and the rest of us will not stand for it. Nothing can 
justify what is happening to the girls.

The famous words of a German cleric come to mind (and I paraphrase):
  They came for the Jews, but I wasn't a Jew so I didn't protest.
  They came for the workers, but I wasn't a worker so I didn't object.
  They came for the Communists, but I wasn't a Communist so I didn't stand 
up.
  When they came for the clergy, there was no one left to stand up for me.

  Today it is Orot Banot. Tomorrow it could be a school in RBSA.

  The residents of RBSA can not be silent. Please voice (and write and post) 
your support of our fellow Jews and neighbors.

  B"Birchas Shalom Al Yisrael,
  Rabbi Avrohom Leventhal
  Lema'an Achai