A Moser
Maud Newton is troubled by the term “moser,” a Jew who narcs to the gentile authorities. The fact is, the ultra-Orthodox consider it a betrayal to tell the gentile authorities about the evil being done by a frumme yid. Better the heimeshe community should handle it themselves. Which is to say, if they are at all prominent, better to do nothing, and allow evil to flourish. People are probably just making things up anyway. After all, the man wears a hat and has a long beard! So there is no need to turn to the goyishe authorities. They can’t be trusted to treat a yid fairly.
Unless the matter concerns a monetary or property dispute between heimeshes. Then you can go to the goyishe authorities, because even the frummest of haredim trusts the U.S. government and laws more than a bais din made up of other corrupt frumme yidden.
Hey, who would you trust more with your money? The U.S. justice system, or a bunch of greaseball charedim from Monsey? (No offense, of course).
Hat tip: EV
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Some British TV station once broadcast a film about a Chasidic community where someday one of its members is found dead with eyes poked out. So, police figures out that this means the man had been a moser, a traitor, as that apparently is the fate traitors are supposed to suffer. They’re investigations head off into the political / WW2 direction while a Mossad agent (as the film said, the Mossad starts investigating whenever a Jew dies by force) joins the community undercover, allegedly looking for a bride. Anyhow, that Mossad agent gradually finds out - with the help of the pretty, yet frum, yet open-minded prospective bride-to-be - that that man had to die because he’d been the rabbi’s brother-in-law in whom the rabbi’s wife had confided that the rabbi beat her up regularly and who wanted to make this public. So, you had the evilish rabbi and his evilish bochuim beating people up. Alas, I haven’t been able to retrieve that film.
The film was called “Wall of Silence”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108513/
All I remember about it was that it was a bad film (apart from some Hassidics engaging in Kung Fu). You cannot compare it to classics such as “Dawn of the Gedolim”.
I thought the term moser had something to do with a feces fetish.
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