Judaism DOES place gentile children in Heaven, check perek Cheilek in Sanhedrin, check Parshas Ha’azinu — the pasuk af chovev amim. The Amora Shmuel had his goyishe friend Avleit (from the Gemara in Avoda Z), Rebbi chilled with Antoninus, and we learn all sorts of things — from kibud av v’em to table manners — from goyim. Would Shmuel be able to have his goyishe friend over for dinner in today’s B’nei Brak? Would you find a rav today in Meah Shearim saying “if you want to know how to eat like a mentsch, go to Ramallah and watch how the sheikh eats”?

Charedim are humanistic, non-racist, and wonderful. The only question in my mind is, “where are the real Charedim”?

“Fags die”? There is a Yerushalmi (Jachnoun knows all of this) which speaks of a gay couple who were caught having sex — actual “we’re going to stone this motherf***er” mishkav zachar — by one witness, and we know that al pi shnayim eidim yakum davar. We don’t find that witness going and doing anything after that — i.e., trying to get other witnesses or nominating them for the barley-in-the-stomach death by Beis Din. What would happen today?

Who is more charedi — a group of Chassidim in Meah Shearim or Chaza”l?

Shabbos smokers die? The Chofetz Chaim saw someone breaking Shabbos, what did he do? He grabbed his hand and cried over the person’s lack of recognition of Shabbos. Would the Chofetz Chaim have given a clop on a bimah and said, “Rabosai! Shteht in pasuk ‘u’biarta ha’ra m’kirbecha’!! Chaptzem!!!”? Would Chaza”l have thrown rocks or bags of cholent at cars?

The dying you refer to comes from a perversion of halacha, not an upholding of halacha. Do you think Moshe Rabbeinu — with his Sudanese/Ethiopian wife — would have been able to rent an apartment in Boro Park? Or the Ethiopian Amora R’ Yochanan m’Hundakei from Kiddushin? Or — f**k it — even the Arizal, since he left being Ashkenazi and became Sephardi (gasp!)?

And don’t take Psalm 137 out of context. See the first few verses, post traumatic stress based on involuntary relocation? Bro you’d say the same thing if you had to leave your country and walk around anti-Semitic neighborhoods 24/7.

I don’t think all Charedim are humanistic or anything. I think that the word Charedi being used to refer to everyone from the guy who slapped my friend in the face for her not being tznius enough in Bnei Brak to Moshe Rabbeinu is a travesty, sick, and a complete distortion of what Torah stands for. I think the word Charedi needs to be reclaimed and redefined by ppl who actually want to do what G-d wants done, not just what the Rav said was a “mitzvah chiyuvis”.

If Moses were around, there would be about 6 yeshivos in Brooklyn, and about 45 rebbeim. The rest would have been sent out of the camp — to Long Island — for being tamei.