[RBS] Very disturbing incident outside Moria banot this morning.

[Ayelet Granick]

So... that boy was 10 years old. I heard an identical remark from a FIVE
year old boy at a private, mixed gan in Gedi last year. Those boys don't
make up such judgements by themselves. They clearly hear it from lots of
adult women-phobic males around them .
Women, wake up: Taliban *ze kan*, Iran *ze kan*.
In a few years time we might all have to think twice before we appear in
public without a Burka on.
Ayelet



On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Yael and Mark
<slutzkiy at netvision.net.il>wrote:

>  I am exposing this to the list not because I want to bad mouth any
> segment of the local population but rather to point out that children learn
> from personal examples set by their parents and teachers.****
>
> The following incident happened to me this morning.****
>
> ** **
>
> As I walked past the guard at Talmud Torah Moria to take my first grade
> daughter inside a young JEWISH boy standing next to the guard started
> commenting that there are a lot of non tzanua girls around. He had to say it
> a couple of times before I realized that he was referring to my 6 year old
> daughter who was dressed in her Moria school shirt and a long skirt. I
> turned round to the boy who can’t have been more than 10 years old and
> kindly with a big smile on my face asked him where he see’s non tzanua
> girls. I pointed out that my daughter is dressed very appropriately, in fact
> all the girls here are. I also told the boy with my smile still on my face
> that if he has a problem he should please go to his own school gate and
> judge his friends before passing judgment elsewhere. I ended by telling him
> that it is now Elul, we are all Jews and in less than a week we will all
> stand TOGETHER and listen to the shofar. ****
>
> ** **
>
> What bothers me with what happened is that this child is not a child of one
> of the extreme ring leaders who believe that they keep all of the 613
> mitzvot to the last letter. This child has heard what is going on from the
> adults around him and thinks that this is the way to behave. The guard who
> was with him could have been his father I don’t know, they clearly knew each
> other and that guard just smiled throughout our whole exchange. There is
> something inherently wrong in the system if kids can’t see their counter
> parts as equals. There is no way Moshiach can come if each segment of the
> population insists on gathering around its own flag and seeing everyone as
> “them”. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Yael Slutzki****
>
> ** **
>
>   ****
>
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