Reminds me of my son's classmate who was thrown out of school for a day for wearing a t-shirt with the following graphic:
If ZAKA can run video ads like the one above, then the t-shirt isn't that much worse.
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That is pretty bad! Better would be real video footage with no sound other than the scraping of the zaka tools cutting up the pavement and building facings.
ReplyDeleteUmm...what are they advertising, exactly?
ReplyDeleteI saw someone with a T-shirt like that (different color, I think) in the shuq yesterday. I was pretty taken aback.
The ad reminds me of some toys I saw for sale in a sefarim store in Boro Park once: emergency vehicles, but each in the "frum" version: A Hatzolah ambulance, a "Shomrim" police car, a roadside assistance truck with the logo of some other charedi group...and a New York City firetruck. Apparently they haven't gotten around to having their own fire department yet. :-)
i didn't think the ad was so awful, but i want one of those t-shirts! where did your son get it?
ReplyDeleteThere has been a PR push recently from the Charedi community to assert that even though the party line is against army, they do contribute to society in other major ways, and without relying on that amorphous "learning that supports the world."
ReplyDeleteThe problem with the PR is that it seems to take the approach of showing that when Charedim contribute, it's *even*better* than what anyone else is doing.
They don't realize that it's elitism which is getting them a bad name in the first place. They'd be better off putting forth a message like, We might have our own ways, but we also make a contribution.
Identification of Disasters Victims Search and Rescue
ReplyDeleteIs that written correctly?
Shouldn't it be Identification of Disaster Victims?
HA!
ReplyDeleteIt's Chasidish! Not English!
Like the Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York. Except that Talmudical is a made up word!
Hahahahahahahaha!