Boys and girls up to a certain age equate anger with hate. You get mad with them and they really feel that your love for them is gone. Does that make their feeling valid?

Boys and girls up to a certain age don’t understand that inequality does not mean better vs worse. Heck, many adults don’t get it. The onus is therefore on educators to ensure that at the correct developmental point this is what is communicated to the children. But allowing incompletely developed intellects to guide halachic behaviour? Are you serious?

i am not interested in hearing that they are the minority. that makes no difference. they are thugs in religious clothing and i have seen to much violence and been attacked myself. its disgusting.anything that feeds the feeling that men are able to dishonour their women should be thrown out now. i like many women am a battered wife and these words just make me want to be ill.

next what about the rights of children to far more basic things, like the right to be protected from pedophiles in the community. and i am right in the centre of the nachlaot pedophiles who walk outside my house looking for new victims and are protected by our corrupt legal system.why does the jewish world avoid dealing with this.????

i will not forgive or forget, we are talking about babies and tiny tots here. why are you(not you personally the collective you) not writing about them and turning the world upside down for their rights or is it just my job. no problem i will continue but everyone is going to give an answer about their silence one day and if you cant answer a jewish mama how will you answer to hashem.??? just asking

what about the rabbi’s protecting the perverts? or taking bribes to accept them into the community? or telling the parents to shut up?the haradim here whose children have been raped horribly and i am not one of them obviously, hate the words lashon hara and modesty. all the words,blessings that encourage violence to our children and that criminals hide behind should be stopped

and why are wicked perverts allowed in mikvas and bet knesset. maybe you can write about these things if it bothers you the way it bothers us. but then who is listening. the rabbi’s are far too busy with being famous peacocks or splitting words to bother with the real issues – like saving lives of the most innocent

disgusted in jerusalem
the unholy me in the holy city
ruth cohen harif

by the way my maiden name was also krinsky, my saba was pinchas krinsky from poland. wonder if we are related

anyway thanks for writing this at all. about time the issue is addressed and have a great shabbat and spread the word we must save the children. and some of the most dangerous perverts from here are back in the usa so your children are in new danger again.

Women want to look up to men, you cannot change human nature no matter how hard you try. You can, however, create a cadre of women for whom no man is ever good enough.

Winberg ducks Magid’s major point: “To instantiate your [Linzer's] reading of the Talmud would require you to act decisively to abolish all the legal mandates that objectify women’s bodies and put the onus on the men to take full control of their libido and desire.” Winberg wants to dismiss this by claiming that “Surely Professor Magid realizes that an Orthodox rosh yeshiva is not going to abrogate normative halakhah on the basis of a pattern of attitudes regarding modesty.” Really? From where does normative halakhah come? Last I checked the Talmud, and centuries of interpretation, codification, and responsa based on both the specific law and “patterns of attitudes” in the Talmud. Even if the mechitzah isn’t Talmudic per se, the enforcement of it takes on the authority of Talmud. And if non-Talmudic matters should be of no concern to Magid, why shouldn’t Winberg and Linzer call for the abolition of the mechitzah or make kol isha a non-issue? Responsa looks at “patterns of attitudes” as much as it looks at the law itself. If you can’t take those “patterns of attitudes” seriously (which Winbergs language suggests he can’t), then it’s very easy to overlook and thus validate misogyny. Try taking Magid seriously and looking at the legal infrastructure and codes of the Talmud. Do you really not see misogyny? Are women really treated with respect?