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Why Tyler Oliveira's Video about Hasidic Jews in Kiryas Joel is Dangerous

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Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg

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There are certain places in Tyler's video where he says some nice things about the community. He talks about the flat tire being changed. He talks about the ambulance service and then he sort of turns it into or if I'm talking to you Tyler, you turn it into this thing about, yeah, we got to do this for ourselves. We have to learn how to do this for ourselves. And where does that come from? because you're saying a very dangerous question near the end of the video which kind of takes that good part of the video and makes it seem like you mean it deviously. Why? Because you say, "Why is it okay for Jewish people to live together in a homogeneous community, but it's illegal when white people try to build their own?" That question, Tyler, is either ignorant or malicious. Let me explain to you why. It is not illegal for white people to live together. That's not a thing. By the way, sign on my screen is where Jews I'm not talking about Nazi Germany over here. I'm talking about in America when membership is limited to Gentiles only. If you look at the bottom and no dogs either, mind you. Look at the bottom. It says members and guests limited to Gentiles of North European ancestry. So to tellic Jews, why is it okay for them to do it, not us? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not how history works. That's not how it works. You can live in curious jewel. Anybody can buy a house there. People selling houses, people selling are from all walks of life. People can buy it from all walks of life. There's a big difference between something looking a certain way and something being a certain way. There are people who are not Chinese who live in Chinatown. There are people who are not Muslims who live in Dearbornne, Michigan. There are people who live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, who don't take a horse and wagon because they're not Amish. But still, do you want to live in such a community? The reason why Orthodox Jews specifically cluster together is because they don't take cars on the Sabbath. They want to walk to synagogue. They need to have since they only eat kosher food, they want to live near a kosher supermarket and often they don't have cars. As you said, if you if everyone would have cars, you say people below the poverty line, everyone has cars. Many people manage without cars. Therefore, they all live close together. Plus, families are very close and people get married young. So when somebody lives in curious Joel and their child gets married and the child wants to live near their parents, remember we have a diff very different way of raising our children and I don't want I don't want to say marrying off our children because maybe that doesn't sound the way I'm trying to explain but when a child gets married and there's no forced marriages but when a child gets married then you want to live near your parents unlike in other cultures where you want to live far away. It's more like the cultures where everyone kind of wants to live nearby, not in the same house, but a couple of blocks away. So what happens is when their children get married, they also want to live in the area. So you end up having a lot of extended family cluster together. So therefore, you end up having a community where everybody wants to live within three blocks of mommy and 20 years later their daughter wants to get married and live within three blocks of that mommy who's the daughter of the mommy we mentioned 10 seconds ago. And therefore you end up with a very large community of kididic Jews living near each other. Not because a non-Jew can't live there. That's just the way it works. So just like I don't think I would want to or you would want to live in Park City, Utah because I'm not Mormon and I don't think you're Mormon. Do anyone does anyone live there that's not Mormon? Probably. Would you like to live there? No. So the question isn't why is it allowed for them to have their own community? The question is, why does religious freedom make some people uncomfortable? Iser, let me tell you the question you're really asking. You're asking, why can religious minorities have their own little cultural enclaves? And the answer is because it's America. Because it's America.