Please Don't Stop the Music

If the recent banning of the Madison Square Garden Lipa Shmeltzer fundraising concert doesn't rub you the wrong way, you have probably never read 1984 or Fahrenheit 451.

The Charedim are running a totalitarian society. One where the leaders yield complete power and control and censor everything. (No need for documentation.)

Concerts like this have been held hundreds of times in the past with rabbinic authority. The concert was entirely seperate seating. There was to be no intermission to avoid mingling.

The Charedim are interested in stopping art and free thinking. They are in great need of a Charedi Elvis to wake them up.

I find it sad how far they have fallen. The stronger they push, the more people they are pushing away. (I find myself included in this category more and more lately.)

Some of the 33 signers: Dovid Feinstein, Shmuel Kaminetzky, Lipa Margolis (strongly suspected of harboring a sex offender), Aharon Shechter.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1NYDcODkRPg/R7waqNrRTHI/AAAAAAAAAsg/9n1VNv5baIw/s1600-h/scan0002%5B1%5D.JPG
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/02/the-new-music-b.html
http://orthomom.blogspot.com/2008/02/quick-thoughts-on-concert-ban.html
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
http://www.avakesh.com/2008/03/on-the-concert.html
http://blogindm.blogspot.com/2008/02/anatomy-of-ban.html

Note: After writing this post, I got up and came back to site in my chair and one of the legs broke. This is the first time in my life I have ever broken a chair I sat in. This is one of them fancy black leather swively chairs too. Sign from God he didn't like my last post? Maybe. Sign from God that I have gained weight? Absolutely.