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Title: Current woes in Haredi society
Post by: wonga66 on January 04, 2010, 04:25:40 AM

There are 4 major problems currently afflicting Haredi society:

A severe Haredi housing crisis
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000526103&fid=1384

Sefardi-Ashkenazi tensions
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3828718,00.html

Frum crooks - Haredi 'Madoffs' fleecing their own frum communities of millions $$$
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c37_a17564/News/National.html

Wayward Haredi youth known as Shababniks - basically thugs wearing kippot - robbing and terrorisng their own Haredi communities
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/23450/yeshiva-dropouts-walk-on-the-wild-side/

As the Talmud says: "If it wasn't for the Torah that occupies them, even the gentiles would not be able to withstand the Jews"!