Members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community are at odds after an elementary school principal in Brooklyn encouraged parents not to engage with their kids about sex abuse allegations involving a widely popular children’s author who killed himself.
Hasidic parents are scrambling to try to figure out how to deal with this with their kids, Bernstein said. Taking his books off the shelf does not stop the conversation from happening, because news of the Walder situation has exploded within the community.
The unfiltered internet is, theoretically, forbidden in the Hasidic community. In many yeshivas, going to the public library is also prohibited. But Bernstein, who is no longer ultra-Orthodox, chafed against these restrictions and learned about sex from secret visits to the public libraries around New York.
“People expect this conversation to only bounce off the walls of the school,” he said. “They got used to that. They didn’t expect the internet, which is why they’re so anti-internet. They lose control of the conversation. [The letter] didn’t last an hour before it was all over the internet. But this issue goes back to literally the 1800s. Only then it wasn’t the internet, it was the Yiddish press.
“The fear their ancestors had of the outside world persists almost as if time didn’t pass,” Josephs explained. “When you work to keep the world out in order to survive, positive updates, like better ways of educating and handling abuse take longer to get in. But it is happening.”
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