YIDDISH BLOGERS TODAY... OR IS IT YESTERDAY?

Posted at mentalblog.com (Thread: The Warrior Sholom Keller)

...I feel like we are literally re-living the 1890s.

Yiddish blogers are all ‘free-thinking’ Sholom-Aleichem clones... Round-spectacles-wearing 18 year olds (who are giddy with the discovery of their brain along with other body parts) are mouthing off 100-year-old revolutionary mantra...Parents and the Rabbis still imagine that suppression of ‘bad influences’ will keep the kids ‘in the fold’...

Only there is nothing ‘original’ or ‘special’ about any of this. It’s déjà vu all over again! I only hope with not such devastating results this time around.

berl, crown heights 11.14.05 - 9:45 pm / Link: #