Fifty Years of Quality Secular Education in Crown Heights
For the 50th anniversary of his alma mater, Sholom the anarchist rabbi penned a heartwarming retrospective about his own Crown Heights yeshiva days, and reminisces about how his experience proves that a haredi background need not sacrifice one iota of so-called “secular� subjects, whether science, or what his rabbis called “the essentials of the essay.� Sholom also recalls the wonderful friends he made, and defends uniform dress at least for teenagers, because it “successfully masks the class divisions so evident in the secular world.�
While Sholom did not go into the professional corporate world like seven out of ten of his peers did, he remains tight with this world, and spoke to his fellow alumni about his experience posing for Fanorama.
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What a strange juxtaposition. Love for a Crown Heights Yeshiva, and gay porn. Not that the two need to be mutually excluvive, but it just seems like a moment that would only happen in New York.
Actually, Annie, I do think the two would defenitely be mutually exclisive. Yep I do.
Apparently, you girls missed the “satire” label on this post.
No, I got the satire bit - I know DK and his wily ways. I was just commenting on Annie’s comment.
Heartwarming indeed.
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