NCSY Shout Out
NCSY, the flagship Modern Orthodox outreach group, a division of the OU, whose target audience is 14 to 18 year olds, has developed a cozy relationship – both above board and in a more stealth-like fashion –with haredi outreach organizations including Aish HaTorah (of Torah Codes infamy) and Ohr Somayach.
So what's the problem? This. Parents do not send their children to NCSY to get involved with groups that preach a message of anti-modernity, or a message of no secular education, or a message of putting off Harvard indefinitely to attend yeshiva (a case NCSY actually brags about). In other words, this appears to be a classic bait-and-switch.
NCSY owes all of us, especially those of us who are parents of teenaged children, an explanation and clarification of their policy regarding haredi recruiters and organizations.
How about it, NCSY? What is NCSY's policy here? Are you up front with parents about this before their children become involved with NCSY? Or is this just another version of the Torah Codes?
Scotty are you bitter because you became frum instead of getting an education, anbd now your not frum and not educated?
Posted by: | December 06, 2006 at 09:22 AM
I dislike fraud and dishonesty done in the name of God.
Posted by: Shmarya | December 06, 2006 at 11:14 AM
What do you mean, Shmarya? If it's our religion, it doesn't count as dishonest, because it's PAKUACH NEFESH!
Posted by: DK | December 06, 2006 at 12:23 PM
Negiah Can Save You.
Posted by: YidChat | December 06, 2006 at 12:28 PM
I've been talking about this for years. NCSY is betraying modern Orthodoxy by looking over its right shoulder. sad, but typical of MO institutions.
Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | December 06, 2006 at 10:12 PM
Nothing new here. The real question is why did Norman Lamm shut down the YU alternative to NCSY 25 years ago?
Posted by: Reb Yudel | December 09, 2006 at 11:48 PM