Haredi "Carnivals Alert!"

Carnivals staged by local Monsey haredi charities to raise money are immodest, a haredi letter-writer says, because they allow children above the age of three of different genders to stand next to each other while playing carnival games. Monsey needs to have carnivals with separate hours for each gender, the letter-writer insists.

In haredi newspapers and shoppers like the Monsey Community Connections, where the following letter can be found in the 8-7 to 8-14-2014 issue on page 124, anonymous letters like this are frequently written by the newspaper's own editor and are meant to "repair" a "breach" in the community's morals.

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Comments

[Kosher Ham]

We are an עם קדוש!

Therefore, instead of carnivals, where the parents will be watching their einicklack, send them boys to mikvahs & yeshivas without parental supervision and the girls overseas to seminaries in Israel again without parents.;-)

[David]

Yes, rather than letting children go to carnivals and have FUN put the boys under the charge of rabbis and let them "learn" and let's hope nothing else bad happens.

[Bas Melech]

Since the adults have impure thoughts about children, the assume that youngsters have them too?

How does a 3 year old have knowledge about the birds and bees?

[adams]

isn't it meant as a joke?

[dh]

Do they get to have chocolate bananas?

[ruthie]

whoa!
this is just too stupid.
i would like to meet the woman who wrote this letter...i think she
needs some sex education.
or she needs sex.badly.
but she is def. in need of meds.
what an unhappy woman this must be.
what a stupid person.
or maybe she's just trying too hard to be frum.

[RWisler]

These harlot six year old girls need to stop enticing the six year old boys at these dens of iniquity. Tramps!

[Edith]

They are scared of the clowns.

[The fullovshitter rov]

The rabbis dont want competition from the carneys lol. Not enough glatt kosher kid tuchas to go around.

[Joe]

The co-mingling can lead to mixed dancing, which can lead to...??

[Joe]

This is the perfect solution to the 'Shidduch Crisis'.. Why stop it

[Nachman the Red Nosed Gadol]

He's coming! Let's be ready! Add in goodness and kindness, follow tznius and halacha and stamp out loshon hora while you're at it.I'll be chilling in my mitzvah tank with my pimped out tefillin and bulletproof stockings..

[Alter Kocker]

Haredism is a synonym for "Fucking Idiots".

[Sarek]

We are already aware of the rabbinical edict which states that fun in Judaism is not enjoyable.

[Mb]

First of all thei issue for this particular "letter writer" was that there were kids over bar/bas mitzvah at this carnival (Not 3 years old that was a reference to schools) second of all are they hurting anyone by wanting this life style why does it bother you so much. I have a Christian friend who told me in public school he never studied a word it was all about "boy-girl happenings" that's why he sent his kids to same sex private schools.

[Sarek]

I don't have the time to write a full parody of "June is Bustin' Out All Over"(Rogers & Hammerstein from 'Carousel')

Here's the chorus of "Fun is Causin' Kids to Intermingle"

Fun is bustin’ out all over
The sex is getting’ so intense
Carnal knowledge is so creepy
And the kids are getting bawdy
Against a carnival there’s no defense
Because it’s fun

[Elliot]

Do you really need to hold a carnival when your everyday life is a circus?

[Fleishike Kishke]

The problem with mixed carnivals all comes because there is no mechitza in the yichud rooms. That people aren't careful of keeping the chosson unfettered from exposure to a strange lady on the holiest night of his personal life (not to step on the holiest of all nights when we celebrate the Rebbes' salvation from prison, war, or lawsuits) this is what leads to mixed shopping, elevator rides and carnivals.