Dark Light Daughter to BT Community — Shut Up and Smile More!
Toby Katz, the daughter of the late Rabbi Bulman, who was the mashgiach at Ohr Somayach in the 70s, wants you BT people to stop complaining all the time about not being accepted by the FFBs – FFBs…you know, the Fundamentalist from Birth folk.
Mrs. Katz writes on Cross Currents,
In all the articles and comments about whether Ba’alei Teshuva are fully accepted in Frum from Birth communities, one major factor I haven’t seen mentioned is the character of the individual BT. This applies also to gerim (converts). I know a convert who is a sweet, outgoing, pleasant, talented, easy-going person, and she finds the charedi community to be delightful and wonderful. Everyone is good, warm, intelligent, altogether admirable. I know another convert who is sour, dour, prickly and altogether a difficult person, and she finds the Orthodox community to be cold, unwelcoming, uncaring and exclusionary. And both of these women formed their impressions while living in the same neighborhood! Fancy that.
Well, surprisingly, not everyone is very happy with Mrs. Katz. In fact, there are a lot of complaints, including some angry at Cross Currents moderators for not allowing their comments through that to rebut Mrs. Katz. Their complaints are not getting through, but some of their complaints about their complaints not getting through are getting through, and…my gosh, these bnai niddah baal teshuvah people really do complain a lot!
And look – even someone claiming to be Miriam Shear is complaining…remember Ms. Shear? She’s the maniac who went crazy when the nice haredi men tried unsuccessfully to help her be like Rosa Parks and sit in the back of the bus.
Why won’t these all these people stop complaining and accept their lot at the back of the bus? They are so lucky to be there…so fortunate that the Dark Lights of kiruv have taken them out of the slavery of Egypt that the secular world truly is…and instead of eternal gratitude and simcha, they have so many complaints.
Fancy that.
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I came across Toby Katz a few years ago, when I first began reading the Jewish blogs. There was this absolutely psychotic Hareidi guy named Heshey, who used to go around New York with a hand-made sign, protesting loudly against the idea of equal rights for gay people. That was only one of his shticks; he had absolutely insane opinions about any Jewish topic you could imagine. He made other people whom you and I have discussed seem tame by comparison; even hard core fummies were embarrassed by him, told him he was making them all look bad. And who do you think defended him? Toby Katz.
She’s a real piece of work, DK. The quintessential Hareidi apologist.
Toby has added some very hateful comments to her critics, comments that would be censored if they came from someone like me. And people wonder why I’m OTD.
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