Who saves Jewish women?
This past week, I had occasion to contact Caroline Glick with a suggestion for her Tuesday column in the JPost. Caroline is a very busy woman, and it would not have surprised me at all if I did not hear back from her. But she sent me an email and said that she had been asked to write a column for Tuesday on a women's issue. After all, Tuesday is International Women's Day.That column was published in Tuesday's JPost and it's an important column. It's about a Haredi organization called Yad l'Achim. Yad l'Achim is known as an anti-missionary organization. But they do something else also: They rescue Jewish women who are married to Arab men and their children. I wrote about them once before here. While I was aware of Yad l'Achim's work, what I didn't know until I read Caroline's column was the extent to which Yad l'Achim is one of the very few players in the field when it comes to rescuing these women (I am aware of someone who maintains a halfway house for them so that they have a place to live that is hidden from their ex-husbands).
In January, Channel 10 presented live footage of one such rescue. Viewers saw relatives of a mother of four named Dana waiting anxiously at the Erez checkpoint as she and her children fled her husband and his family in Gaza and took their first steps of freedom.Read the whole thing. You won't look at feminism the same way again.
During their courtship, Dana’s husband showed her every courtesy. After their marriage, he began regularly beating her and kept her under around the clock surveillance. A visit to Yad L’Achim’s website makes clear that her story is anything but unique.
Yad L’Achim’s work in saving Jewish women from violent Muslim husbands is especially notable given the nature of the organization. It is an anti-missionary haredi organization led by Rabbi Dov Lipshitz. It is not feminism that motivates its members to save these women. It is Jewish law. And specifically, the halachic command of the ransoming of Jewish hostages. According to the organization, it carries out scores of rescue missions like the one that rescued Dana every year.
The question naturally arises, why do haredim dominate what by rights ought to be a field occupied by secular feminists? Why aren’t Israeli and American Jewish feminists at the forefront of efforts to save these women from their violent husbands? Where, for instance, is the New Israel Fund? Its website brags, “The New Israel Fund founded or funded most of Israel’s women’s rights organizations and networks.”
Obviously Yad L’Achim, which defends these women’s right to live without fear is a women’s rights group. So why doesn’t NIF fund it? Yad L’Achim and other religious groups have been pilloried with allegations of racism in recent months for their public calls for Jewish girls and women not to date Arabs. In principle, these attacks seem fair. Blanket denunciations of Jewish- Muslim dating and intermarriage are problematic, even if they are justified from a religious perspective.
But whether one agrees or disagrees with the religious precepts that guide Yad L’Achim’s actions, the fact is they are not saving a principle. They are saving women and children. Shouldn’t that be enough to earn them the respect of the Left that is supposed to be motivated by concern for the weak and downtrodden? IN HER interview with Channel 10, Dana said that in Gaza, “what they do is curse the Jews 24 hours a day.”
The fact is that both misogyny and Jew-hatred are facts of life throughout the Muslim world. This state of affairs renders marriage to Muslim men a particularly dangerous prospect for Jewish women.
Labels: Caroline Glick, feminism, Muslim men, Yad l'Achim
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:41 PM
3 Comments:
Mainstream Western "feminism", the leadership and media mouthpieces of which have been captured by radicals, only care about what I'd call "indulgence freedom" for women in their respective countries. Rampant, consequence-free sexual amorality, including lesbianism. being the foremost "right" of concern. The "consequence-free" aspect includes "a woman's right to choose", the euphemism that means to choose to kill the inconvenient unborn baby inside her, a result of her personal misconduct. That's with the taxpayer paying directly or indireclt for this infanticide.
These "feminists" are completely indifferent to real women's rights issues, such as the horrible position of women in the Muslim world, (esp. including Jewish and Christian women dumb enough to get involved with and marry a Muslim) as well as in most of the Third World.
"Why aren’t Israeli and American Jewish feminists at the forefront of efforts to save these women from their violent husbands?" Because they're shameless, indifferent hypocrites. I've zero respect for these mainstream organizations and long ago gave up hope for positive, constructive actions from them.
Didn't mean to rant here but I find those organizations and the mindsets of those people outrageous and socially destructive.
I have to admit, I find her attempts to maintain her "non-racist" credentials a little humorous. At one point she says, "In principle, these attacks seem fair. Blanket denunciations of Jewish- Muslim dating and intermarriage are problematic,..."
Why are they problematic? Just a few sentences later we have, "This state of affairs renders marriage to Muslim men a particularly dangerous prospect for Jewish women."
Um, okay. So tell us again why counseling these women not to date the Arab men in the first place is "problematic"?
Guess there's something wrong with induction?
what is the rate of intermarriage in israel between jew and muslim?
and do these girls do even a little research into islam before they start dating these guys?
very sad
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