Catching Up on the Bedford Avenue Building Boom
In recent years, the Orthodox community that has traditionally lived in South Williamsburg has expanded south into parts of Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill. Nowhere is this building boom more obvious than on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Flushing, where eight buildings (by our count) are currently under construction or reaching completion. And, by and…
In recent years, the Orthodox community that has traditionally lived in South Williamsburg has expanded south into parts of Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill. Nowhere is this building boom more obvious than on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Flushing, where eight buildings (by our count) are currently under construction or reaching completion. And, by and large, they’re pretty fugly. GMAP
Guest 1:30 said- He called the women “pritze’s” which means prostitute in yiddish and is the term that they regularly use when referring to “goyim” women. After a threatened community wide boycott the store removed the photo.”
Actually “pritzus” means immodesty, not a prostitute, and the word for a female non-jew is a shiksa. I should know since I am a jew who was raised a satmar but left it since. My wife is one of those “shiksas”. Goyim literally means nations-
1. A Hebrew word used in the Jewish Scriptures (a.k.a. the Old Testament). The word literally means “nations,” and is always used within these scriptures to refer to the nations of the world. Significantly, within the Old Testament, Judah (the Jewish nation) itself is called a “goy.”
2. In the Old Testament, the Jews were called to be a nation separate from the other nations, which were all Pagan. And so, colloquially, all non-Jewish nations came to be called “goyim” as in “the nations” from which the God of the Old Testament had called upon the Jews to separate themselves.
3. A word used by some Jews to refer to Gentiles (non-Jews). The word can have derogatory connotations, such as the word “black” when used to refer to a persons of African descent. It can be neutral or negative depending on the context and the intent of the speaker.
Singular = goy
1. “Gather together, gather together O shameful goy” – Zephaniah 2:1 (Referring to the Jewish nation)
2. Jews don’t eat pork, goyim eat pork.
Licoln1922:
Here is your answer, I just spoke to the contractor, although it’s owned and constructed by jewish people, the project is for neighborhood folks, and as far as I know there are no jewish people in that neighborhood.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&id=18201
All of this bickering aside, I’d like to know if anyone on Brownstoner has any information about Bedford between Putnam and Jefferson Avenues? Rumors swirling around here about sales to Hasidic people and then also to Pratt and I’m just curious.
Thanks
Of course someone resoted to bringing up Hitler. I wonder how much this community cares about Darfur?
Oh come ON, it’s not anti-semitism, 2:34. That’s the accusation always used anytime there is any criticism of these communities. Are you really truly saying nobody in these communities does anything at all that ever deserves criticism? Because they’re what, PERFECT?
I will always criticise any community who treats their women like crap. Deal with it. I don’t care if they are Jewish or another religion. Don’t care. Because I don’t care what religion they are, that means it is NOT anti-semitism.
Here’s the result of becoming equal in a more tolerant society – you going to start being judged equally along with everyone else too. Welcome to the world of being like everybody else.
I just can’t believe the blatant anti-semitism posted by all of the assholes on this website. “Jewish businessmen make millions”…the same rhetoric spewed by Aldolph Hitler more that 60 years ago which led to the genocide of more than 6 million Jews. Why don’t you people get educated and stop spreading your stereotypical crap on this website. People from all walks of life come to this country seeking freedom to practice their beliefs. Are these people bothering you? These are their beliefs, so practice some tolerance.
Too often in human history, the oppressed when given the opportunity, take on many of the attributes of their oppressors. This has definitely happened within many orthodox communities. The Satmar, Lubavitcher and Sephardic Jewish communities think that they are a better race of people than everyone else and they treat everybody alse accordingly with a lack of respect. They have decrees against intermarriage even between the sects. The Sephardim are really strict about this because it is their goal to create a pure Jewish race. They don’t resort to blowing themselves up because they have been able to manipulate political and economic systems to their advantage. Don’t think for a moment that they would be any different from lunatic Muslims in that respect because if the Grand Rebbe ordered suicide bombing they’d do it. There is a wig store on Coney Island Avenue that had photo’s of four women in the window last week. Some Rabbi ordered that the photo’s of the wig-clad women be removed because they were too provocative (NOT). He called the women “pritze’s” which means prostitute in yiddish and is the term that they regularly use when referring to “goyim” women. After a threatened community wide boycott the store removed the photo.
1:26
Maybe you have not noticed the large number of young, white folks (and even some families) moving into Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, and far South Williamsburg. Don’t make it sound like the Hasids are doing anything noble by living in those areas. They were in search of affordable housing just like you. On top of that, if a few thousand young white people organized themselves into a single community and had a massive influx into an area all at one time you would instantly have the same type of isolated pocket of relative safety that the Hasids enjoy.
I would really love for just one “outsider” to be locked out of getting a home in one of these developments and bring a massive lawsuit to expose some of the shady and discriminatory dealings that go on in the Hasidic community.
If this sounds racist then that is fine. I would feel the same way about any insular group with extreme cult-like beliefs. This is especially true when it is an antiquated system who hates outsiders and homosexuals, treats their women like second class citizens, raises hate mongering little brats, and imposes ass ugly architecture on everyone else.
My friend’s father knows a lot of cops and says the Hasidic men are arrested all the time for picking up prostitutes. And there’s a problem with bringing home venereal diseases to their wives.
There are a lot of bad things the people of all religions in this country get away with simply by hiding behind their religions. So much hypocrisy.