The Republican candidate for governor of New York, Lee Zeldin, attacked the authorities of the city and the state for the lack of handling and dealing with the rising anti-Semitic crime, and defended the yeshiva following the law that was passed that states that yeshiva will teach Livah
During a visit to Williamsburg, the Republican candidate for the post of governor of New York, Lee Zeldin, attacked the authorities because of the rising anti-Semitic crime, and strongly defended the yeshivots and the hayidars who would be forced to introduce liba studies. About anti-Semitic attacks, Zeldin said: “It doesn’t happen once a month or even once a week . We are tired of seeing this day after day after day. It is important for all of us to have protection of religious freedom, to be able to walk around these streets, ride the subway, without fear of being attacked.”
“It’s not only in our streets,” he continued, “but also in the schools, the state education department made a mistake in voting for the introduction of the Jewish Law in yeshiva, which I loudly opposed.”
“I stand here today against this push, and I will oppose it in the future as well. We all need to stand by yeshiva education,” he continued. “The untold story is that within the yeshiva you have students who teach them values - values of good and evil, values of leading a good life and keeping the law and family and making a positive contribution and staying out of trouble, this story has not been written.”
Zeldin, who is Jewish, mentioned his great-grandfather “My mother was a teacher here in Brooklyn,” Zeldin said. “Through the generations, my great-grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi right here in Brooklyn. For me, I went through grade school, college, law school, and I was never targeted by anti-Semitism. I couldn’t even tell a story about how other people I knew were targeted. But now, Young men here in Brooklyn can tell you story after story after story of anti-Semitism on these streets.”
@leezeldin in Borough Park, where a huge Hasidic community is present, NYT made education a top issue in those areas, Lee Zeldin promising to protect Private and Religious schools, parents should have the rights to decide in their children’s education. pic.twitter.com/xnrxqq5INB
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In a separate conversation with ultra-Orthodox on the streets of Williamsburg, Zeldin insisted that steps must be taken to ensure that “people who carry out anti-Semitic attacks are held accountable.” This is reported by the Yeshiva world news website.
“We have people who are automatically released from detention, or weak prosecutors or weak judges. We need to make sure there are consequences. If you hurt someone else, if you attack another person because he is Jewish, we have to have zero tolerance,” he said. “We need to identify, confront and crush anti-Semitism in any form whenever we see it. There must be no tolerance for it on our streets, no tolerance for it within our schools, and no tolerance for anti-Semitism within our government.”