Borough Park: a fine and a month in prison for posters distributors
Initiative of the local ultra-Orthodox lawmakers: tossing posters will be fined and sent to prison • there is also a halachic reason justified
- Yoel Bitelman, B'Chadrei Charedim
- כ"ה טבת התשע"ד
Fifty thousand dollars fine and a month in prison – is the punishment given to a customer, printer and pitcher of posters in the streets of Brooklyn. According to the bill introduced by a member of the New York City Council , Rabbi David Greenfeld , to the Council for approval .
"It's over the top" says Greenfield in a conversation with B'Chadrei Charedim "all the streets were covered this week - 40th Street to 60th Street, 10th Avenue to 19th Avenue - Thousands of posters against Israel, all the streets is dirty with these posters. It is not the first time it happens, it happens almost every week. I myself have been working on this bill for six months. "
Greenfield ensures to exhaust with distributors posters punishment when it joins Assemblyman Dov Hikind , who is trying to raise interest in favor of the rabbis and Jewish law. " Why can they not print the ad and hang it in their Shteeble, or mikvah , or a pizza shop and why do they need to spread it through the city and make the desecration - the Gentiles also walk around here in Borough Park , it is really a desecration .
"Distributing posters in the streets of the neighborhood also borders the prohibition of theft," continues Hikind," because city law penalizes any owner who does not clean the sidewalk at the entrance to his house. Inspectors undergo sometimes even twice a day and record fines, what fault is it of a Jew who lives in Borough Park by criminals and hooligans decided to cover the sidewalks with posters and why he should pay a fine of hundred dollars on posters that he didn’t even throw? Impertinence which is against Jewish law.
"I have already met with some rabbis and halachic authorities who are about to publish an edict against distributing posters, the problem is that some Hasidic leaders who refuse to sign against this, since they are Hasidim of their own, sometimes standing behind it ," concludes Hikind .
Greenfield promises that the law will be approved in no time, and he plans to personally enforce the observance of the law.
"It's over the top" says Greenfield in a conversation with B'Chadrei Charedim "all the streets were covered this week - 40th Street to 60th Street, 10th Avenue to 19th Avenue - Thousands of posters against Israel, all the streets is dirty with these posters. It is not the first time it happens, it happens almost every week. I myself have been working on this bill for six months. "
Greenfield ensures to exhaust with distributors posters punishment when it joins Assemblyman Dov Hikind , who is trying to raise interest in favor of the rabbis and Jewish law. " Why can they not print the ad and hang it in their Shteeble, or mikvah , or a pizza shop and why do they need to spread it through the city and make the desecration - the Gentiles also walk around here in Borough Park , it is really a desecration .
"Distributing posters in the streets of the neighborhood also borders the prohibition of theft," continues Hikind," because city law penalizes any owner who does not clean the sidewalk at the entrance to his house. Inspectors undergo sometimes even twice a day and record fines, what fault is it of a Jew who lives in Borough Park by criminals and hooligans decided to cover the sidewalks with posters and why he should pay a fine of hundred dollars on posters that he didn’t even throw? Impertinence which is against Jewish law.
"I have already met with some rabbis and halachic authorities who are about to publish an edict against distributing posters, the problem is that some Hasidic leaders who refuse to sign against this, since they are Hasidim of their own, sometimes standing behind it ," concludes Hikind .
Greenfield promises that the law will be approved in no time, and he plans to personally enforce the observance of the law.
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