Get over It
By Harold Herskowitz
This (insert an adjective) portrait of Adolf Hitler was sent to me by Email from "Anonymous Anonymous" With the Subject line "Get Over It". When I saw the line "Get Over It", I expected it to be someone from the inner circle of Steven Langert telling me, anonymously as always, to stop trying to get revenge on his friend( which I never was or am). Or perhaps it may be someone worried that I would be upset about certain people in the public eye acting as holy leaders of Torah Judaism, being given the highest public honors, when in reality behind closed doors they do despicable things to hurt people, and even innocent children, unable to communicate openly, and honestly, like a true leader should. Imagine my surprise to see my old friend Adolph looking like a vision of greatness in his portrait above the symbol of his tyranny. Was the sender of this email suggesting that I (we) should forgive and forget the atrocities that this man, and his organization, were responsible for? Has the time finally come to say all is forgiven? Perhaps enough time has passed and we should stop blaming this man(Hitler) for all of our problems, but to say "Get over It", and absolve him of wrongdoing?
Much of my upbringing was affected by the fact that my parents survived the concentration camps that were the creation of the man on my Blackberry screen. But everything I learned from them, and their experience ended up being positive. Should I just say it was all for the best, and perhaps even be thankful for his existence? If I were to hear that he was still alive, and was going to speak at the UN, and the President sent a limousine to pick him up at the airport, should I remain silent? And if I were to speak out would anybody care? I have so much to write about forgiveness. I will stop for now.
not appropriate from the child of a holocaust survivor
"let by gones be by gones " is the slogan for the Lakewood twp.
whenever they get caught with a failure or a mishandling of an individual or a company, they always try this silly tactic of trying to persuade the complainer to forget about it and "JUST MOVE ON" .
I wonder how well this philosophy will go in court the next time someone gets a traffic ticket and says to the Judge "your honour why dont we just let by goners be by goners and let me go home and we all just move on and forget about it .
I'am quite sure the judge's reply would be something like sure after you pay your fines you can go home and we all will gladly move on.
But, the Lakewood twp. mentality is that they dont have to answer to anyone, and thus they have no responsibility for their actions.
they can have double standards throughout their corrupt system, and everyone is just their fool.
why think negative, maybe he meant it in positive way, just like Hitler is gone, ur other enemy is gone
This article is very confusing. I'm not Really sure what you are getting at?
Is it a dictatorship, a mafia, mein kamf, unter velt nicks, etc portraying themselves as shainah der-hoibeneh yiden with one goal "ani vi afsi oid"?
Does the pnei hador deserve this farbiseeh sinah to them?
They worked on it & they earned it-lock, stock & barrell.
Wait till the tide turns, there are ups and downs for all.
OK, let's bring this out into the open. What can anyone say to justify denying children the right to go to a shool because of their father's political activities? Note, the basis for the denial was not the father's religious observance. In fact, I dont think anyone would deny that certain other politicians in town are less frum than the one I refer to and such other politicians' children did not have problems getting into school.
Mel Gibson never existed.
History is taught so poorly that most kids in Lakewood would not even know who this is a picture of.
Rabbi Wolfson once told someone "just because a guy is a Rosh yeshiva doesn't mean he cant be a rasha".
Herschel, I agree with you almost all the time, and I value your bringing many issues into the open. But your use of Nazi ym”sh imagery as a springboard to espouse your [hurt frustration anger rage resentment – insert noun] is unacceptable.
Gus The Bus has been fired by the board!!
Do you refer to the fact that malkiel kotler is being honored to speak at the siyum hashas just as if hitler ym"sh was being honored to speak at the UN?
I think its a pretty good tzushtel.
Hitler, Shmitler...who cares?! When's the next yoyo show?
All these Litvak Rosh Yeshivos like Kotler and company etc their Parents and Grand Parents never went through the Holocust they never had to deal with all the emotional and phycological fallout that resulted from the Holocust they just came to America and right away started living off the Fat of the land and than they want all the children of the Holocust survivors to worship them and give them unlimited money Kovod and power so that they can live their Hedonistic Corrupt lives and look down upon you with thierr Holier then thou attitude
These Litvak Rosh Yeshivos parents and grandparents some of them may have had to be on the Run and or suffer some physical deprivations however they never went through the Gehenom of the concentration camps
Hershel
you could have made your same point without that ugly pic.
someone once told me that politicians and dirty diapers are the same because they need to be changed due to being full of the same thing.
so if you were to post this line would you actually post a pic of ..it?
you are losing many fans and bloggers of this site with this mistake, so PLEASE i am asking you nicely please remove that ugly antagonizing pic from this post.
thank you for respecting your viewers!
The regime doesn't pay taxes, they just have their hands in our pockets. They don't feel the pain. In order to "control" even the outside chasidishe Rabonim they pay the off. Do you know why Skver's Rabbi family (among others) got onto the kolel payroll pronto? so he'll be "kufuf" to the regime & even sign on any & all letters for the regime, no questions asked.
As I read the lakewood scoop, I have a serious input, I think Messhe Miller should run for president and his VP should be Carl Fink they sound like they doing an amazing job never did anything bad, o right I forgot there's other news outlets that would post the truth so forget it, thanks you lakewood view for posting the truth, o and if seitler is upset he wasn't VP the plan was to make him bus monitor for prez..
Herschel,
Actually Hitler would be very proud of you and your blog...He would be so happy to see it....
very poor taste. hh once again you have crossed the line. as a matter of fact i dont think a line exists for you.
Baruch..... Shelo Asani Litvak
Who decides if you go to the right & get into Lakewood Moisdois & who is banned? Roshei yeshiva?
At the Holocaust they also had a "selektzia" & a mengele- I thought it was "never again", what happened?
Herschel. you made your point . Now please take his ugly face down or make a few other posts so i dont have to see his face when i go to TLV
Baruch..... Shelo Asani Litvak
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I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what in the world this has to do with being a Litvak or Chasidish.
Corruption is corruption. If HH lived in a Chasidishe community he'd have just as much, if not more, to write about.
Baruch..... Shelo Asani Chasidish
how can a person of your intelligence behave so poorly? i am sure you will come up with some witty, 'you didn't understand my thought process' response, but all in all you are a loose canon that should never be given the opportunity to represent the voters in public office.
Harold,In the Memory of your Father,ZL, PLEASE take this off!!!!
To Huh
your math skills are evident of a true cheder style education
was was over in 1945 ..
you're the parent of holocaust survivors? i find that comment whimsical yet insane.
Baruch... Shelo Asani Hershel..You should be ashamed of yourself... This is the way you act before Tisha B'av? Do you think the holocaust was a joke, Hershel? I'm sure your parents werent survivors... Hershel, you are a mean condescending person with no values and no heart...You should make a cheshbon hanefesh on the route your life has taken...you have not written a positive post in many months. It seems that your only objective is to maim, hurt and destroy the Jewish community.. Almost like the murderer whose picture you have attached to this pathetic article....
anon. 2:43 you seem to be the one with the math comprehension problem. the war was over 67 years ago. even the youngest survivors, like lulek lau, are in their mid 70s. that means the parents of the survivors have to be about 100 at least. get it?
Makim Please Put all the corrupt kovod hungry people in towns face up there
"Dont judge someone just because they SIN differently than you"
ty Yona for showing respect to your viewers
Taking the picture down means that Hershel - unlike others - knows when to admit a mistake.
Thank you for all the good you do - and for all the corruption that you expose.
Why dont these people put on white pants and shiny brown shoes this whole thing is a sham Lakewood/bmg establishment is a country club because you dress sloppily and have some wild payos or a beard with some dandrof and try to talk some yeshivishe slang and only eat yoshon every one needs to bow down to you and worship you. Go back into your HUD approved 5 bedroom 3 bathroom Palace with your Honda Odyssey with all the Gashmius and Tanugei Olam Hazeh at your fingertips and Drei Mir Nisht Kien kup your living the American dream better than any Goy in Brooklyn and most of America. Go get some Shwarma and some Sushi and Fress yourself
Even if he takes it down, this post, as well as most of his others, shows what his penimis is all about. Anyone who supports him should realize that he is dangerous.
To the commentator about the schools:
Be advised that there is a family I know that is trying to get her girl into a school in Lakewood. The askonim are bending over backwards for her. However, the mother, who grew up in a frum family, has decided to lower her standards of tznius, and walks around in a dress mode that is prohibited in Shulchan Aruch. The askonim have tried to explain to her that her children will be better off in a less yeshivish school in Lakewood, where her children's friends will be of the same type as her. But the mother refuses, and insists on the more yeshivish school where all other parents cover the knees. There is no one to talk to. This mother doesn't understand why other families don't want their children in the same class as children who will not be careful with the minimum standards of tznius (like their mothers).
And then this parent has the chutzpah to say that Lakewood just doesn't care about everyone.
Lakewood DOES care. They are trying to get you into schools. But you insist on only going to the "top" yeshivish school, when your tznius standards are clearly very different than that "top" school. YOU ARE CAUSING YOURSELF THIS FRUSTRATION. Why don't you get smart and let the askanim help you???????
Let's cal a spade a spade. Tzinious is not the ladies fault, it's the husbands that want to show off their metziah & see what their friends got. Wake up & smell the coffee, address the men (you'll never win with the men)
only the father is to blame for ruining his family by acting like a maniac.