kvetch \KVECH\, intransitive verb: To complain habitually. noun: 1. A complaint 2. A habitual complainer.
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Category — NCSY

NCSY Video Promoting Observance Through Rebellion

I wonder who taught them their contempt for Liberal Judaism?

The JSU in Action

Come and See,

The love bombing continues. Promoting observance through teenage rebellion continues. NCSY teaches the ben niddah to resent his family. And as you can witness at the end of the film, NCSY continues to send young people from our public schools to haredi institutions including Ohr Somayach.
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March 7, 2010   27 Comments
Kiruv, NCSY  

More earthquake = proof of Torah Judaism

NCSY, the supposedly “Modern” Orthodox youth group, offers up this inspiring miracle mayseh. This one was not published in Cross Currents, but the JTA.
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March 7, 2010   1 Comment
NCSY  

Whitewashing the Dark Light

A couple of weeks ago, the NY Jewish Week republished Steve Lipman’s piece on how he became a baal teshuvah at the Monsey branch of Ohr Somyach.

Needless to say, it was a real metzizah b’ peh.
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March 1, 2010   3 Comments
Haredim, Kiruv, NCSY, Ohr Somayach/Dark Light, Orthodox Union  

Better to marry a retard than a convert or a baal teshuvah

Beyond BT’s Judy Resnick writes,
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February 19, 2010   5 Comments
Haredim, NCSY, Ohr Somayach/Dark Light  

Dark Light Boasts of Getting College Students to Blow Off College

Dark Light reports,

A spaz version of emperor Palpatine

The JLE group was recruited by representatives of Ohr Somayach on a wide range of campuses, including Chicago, Toronto, St. Louis and Long Island. The interaction with the mentors was a tremendously moving experience for them and their mentors.

As a result a number of the JLE participants decided to spend more time in Ohr Somayach, and others made plans to come here upon completion of their studies.

This is whom Hillel is working with these days.
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NCSY recruits them for Ohr Somayach before college, of course. Straight from the public schools.

JSU-Latte & Learning-Shabbaton-Trips-Ohr Somayach/Aish/Neve Yerushalayim

Controlled by the Dark Light's Palpatine. And by economic realities of the OU's Kashrut division and haredi market share

How do they do it? Through trickery and deception, in incremental stages.

“This is how we make them frum” — Rabbi Stephen Burg, on the “conversion process.”

That’s the frum way. If it wasn’t mandated by the Gedoylim, they wouldn’t be able to look themselves in the mirror.

February 4, 2010   4 Comments
Kiruv, NCSY, Ohr Somayach/Dark Light  

The need for Hebrew, and those who don’t see that

A couple of weeks back, a brawl erupted over whether an NCSY-backed program taught mandatory Hebrew to their students. It turns out, that one does.

The study of Hebrew is a critical issue, as the Forward notes this week in, “Taking Hebrew Seriously.”
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January 22, 2010   1 Comment
Forward, Kiruv, NCSY  

Orthodox Union admits JSU is “an agency of NCSY”

Don’t expect the community newspapers like the Jewish Journal to admit that, though. Such information is for the “already Orthodox” only.

No more lies?

Full story

Update: NCSY is consistently referencing the JSU as an “allied agency working in partnership with NCSY” in the new Jewish Action. This seems to be a shift in policy. After all these years of deception just on this issue…non-denial denials….protracted Wikipedia fights…now they finally admit the JSUs are NCSY.

January 20, 2010   No Comments
Kiruv, NCSY  

JSU Turns to Big Aish for Israel Trips

So Aish'd up...

Even as Big Aish’s haskafa-focused curriculum is so dreadfully “fluffy” that even right-wing Modern Orthodox Jews that teach there take offense at being associated with the that institution, the JSU is using them for their trips to Israel with their new initiative, Torah High.

The Orthodox Union reports,
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January 20, 2010   No Comments
Aish, Kiruv, NCSY  

Baal Teshuvahs are happier when they are poor

See? The Orthodox Union and Big Kiruv are just trying to make people happy, and their own poll proves that the baal teshuvah is happier and less “at risk” ;) when he is poor.

January 15, 2010   9 Comments
Economics, Kiruv, NCSY, Orthodox Union  

Sex, Lies, and Videotape: The Back Story

Shmarya has the back story on the scandal of Shannon Orand and Leib Tropper, the Rosh Yeshiva of Kol Yaakov, once a favored yeshiva for public school graduates for NCSY outreach professionals including Rabbi Moshe Zucker, Rabbi Nisan Gertz (NCSY cutesy name, “Nissy”), and Rabbi Jeffrey Goldberg.

Here is an excerpt from Shmarya’s exclusive:
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January 14, 2010   1 Comment
NCSY   Kol Yaakov, Legacy Tours, Leib Tropper