New Shmutz on NCSY

This next investigative article is not going to be pretty. Lies, lies, lies. Blatant ones. And I’m connecting the dots. And it’s all based on NCSY’s own words.

If secular parents read this, there is going to be hell to pay. Not just for NCSY, but for all those facilitating their work. Those other organizations are going to have to answer some tough questions as well. They might think twice about working with NCSY in the future. That would probably be a very good idea.

NCSY, you went too far. And this started a long time ago. And what I have found could and should have been found by the same newspapers that reported on Lanner.

Did it not make sense to do a general audit when the Lanner issue emerged? Well, none was done.

But you know who else missed an opportunity? NCSY itself. NCSY could have used the Lanner situation for an honest and deep cheshbon hanefesh. Instead, NCSY treated it as a PR disaster only. NCSY fixed the symptom, not the underlying disease. And I don’t care if most of the people there now weren’t there when Lanner was there. The culture of ‘ends justifies the means’ kiruv continues. No, you can’t knee boys in the balls or touch the girls inappropriately anymore. Yes, that party was stopped. But that wasn’t the whole problem. That was a symptom, gory and destructive as it may have been. The root problem was why NCSY thought it was better to ignore it in the first place. That was because NCSY felt the bottom line – the only bottom line — was to “make them frum.â€?

Outside of physical abuse, that is still the bottom line. And bottom lines like that have a cost. And it is time for NCSY to pay up.

A new angle, a new outrage.

Monday (bli neder!).

NCSY, if you have any intention of stopping recruitment of underage public high school students to Touro and haredi institutions against the will and without the knowledge and the understanding of their parents, now might be a good time to speak up. Things are about to get rather awkward. So find me if you have any alternative ideas to me exposing your lies! Remember, this is all about your recruitment practices. This is about you recruiting for the likes of Ohr Somayach and Touro, and discouraging the good schools. The best schools. You want to say, “At least they’ll be frum,� well, their parents have a right to know, and to know what that means.

And they are going to flip.

So get your anonymous blogspots in order. You are going to need them next week.

It’s time to ransom the children the haredi kiruvniks in NCSY are kidnapping. Tinok sh’nishba indeed.

Note to readers: Monday’s (bli neder!) article will be written in away that even secular Jewish parents will understand, and some past articles will be briefly mentioned and linked to, and I apologize in advance for that redundancy. But there will also be new, and I’d like to think, exciting, information.