Video: A Dangerous Haredi Sukkah Repeated

According to person who posted the following video on YouTube, "this is a scene that repeats itself every year at the Wiznitzeh Shul in Borough Park. This video shows how they blocked off the street and didnt care to make sure people and children can pass. Which also translates into a sukkah that is stolen and is not kosher."

 

Comments

[seymour]

first this should be pusol sukkah since it is on public grounds and dangerous and and agin the frum do not care about safety or anybody else

[Korbendallas72]

Yeah but who cares if the kid isn't Jewish? It's not like anyone else matters amirite?

Good yom tov! Enjoy your warmth and the joy of your festival as you claim it entirely for yourselves!

[David]

first this should be pusol sukkah since it is on public grounds and dangerous and and agin the frum do not care about safety or anybody else

Posted by: seymour | October 07, 2012 at 05:42 PM

Public grounds? I thought the frumma owned the street?

[Yosef ben Matitya]

Which also translates into a sukkah that is stolen and is not kosher."

this is the small problem, the larger one is that they are followers of whom they refer to as the besh't.

[moshe]

as it turns out the sukkah is kosher. you amaratzim should stop paskining halakhah for the world.

On the other hand the people who built the sukkah should be tarred and feathered.

[Yoel Mechanic]

Did anyone contact those overseeing the sukkah, the shul Rabbi, or Gabai, and inform them (in writing?) of your displeasure *before* making an internet complaint or video in public? Is anyone going to do it now?

Just a feeling here: if you tell someone to conform to a reasonable request or else suffer some public embarrassment, it is important that if the governing entity does comply with your request, then you should keep the other end of the bargain and desist from the public criticism, should that day come.

[seymour]

Posted by: Yoel Mechanic | October 09, 2012 at 10:09 PM

this is really self explanatory that it is not a nice thing to do

[Wigmore]

This sukkah is on the corner of 51st Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Borough Park.

[Yoel Mechanic]

Posted by: Yoel Mechanic | October 09, 2012 at 10:09 PM

this is really self explanatory that it is not a nice thing to do

Posted by: seymour | October 09, 2012 at 11:18 PM
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I have no idea what you are saying here; but I think your intentions are good (based in previous threads).

This sukkah is a hazard, but many solutions exist. It was probably constructed by persons who have no idea about safety, and perhaps have never given much thought or concern to it. why not help them to have such thoughts and concern (this is relevant for people who actually live near this sukkah). Do this *before* lambasting this in public.

I suspect that pressure in the form of mockery from those who have an agenda to dismantle hareidi communities will be ineffective and ultimately counterproductive because it just reinforces a garrison mentality. And in fact, a garrison mentality would be justified (why bend to the will of malefactors?)

[chaim73564]

please...this thing is up for a week...every fruit stand throught NYC and restaurant that set up outside displays and tables that steal from the public right of way every day of the year seem not to engender any umbrage on the part of the denizens here...

[Shoshi]

I believe businesses that use the sidewalks have permits issued by the City to do so. And in any case, they may not completely block the sidewalk in such a way that people must walk into the street to get by.