Showing posts with label Poll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poll. Show all posts

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Guest Post: Response to "National Religious Reject Hilltop Youth"

ט' לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ו
Arutz 7: Poll: National religious reject 'hilltop youth'
New poll reveals highly negative views of 'hilltop youth' of Judea-Samaria among national religious public. 
David Rosenberg, 2/15/2016
A new poll conducted by the Mesaker polling firm reveals that the "hilltop youth" are unpopular even within the generally right-leaning national religious camp.

The hilltop youth, a relatively new phenomenon within the Jewish community in Judea and Samaria, emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a small, distinct, and tightly-knit group often residing in small outposts. (cont.)
The Kalashnikover Rebbe
ז' אדר א' תשע"ו/February 16, 2016

This once again shows the sickness and closed mindedness of the "National Religious" and "Settler" communities in Israel. While I don't expect them to embrace or even condone the at times violent anarchist nature of the "Hilltop Youth", to say that they are not at all helpful and entirely harmful to the "Settlement Enterprise" is an outright lie. THESE meshugayim are the only ones expanding and building settlements while the leaders whine about building freezes while doing NOTHING about it. These wild weeds are the ones who serve as the buffer zone between the hostile Arab population and THEIR houses and absorb the brunt of the attacks, vandalism and thefts. THESE Wayward Sons are the ones who are being expelled and dismantled by the government leaving the fat cats inside the fences of the settlements proper safe and secure. Most of the Settler agriculture takes place in these so called "outposts" by the so called "hilltop youth" or "graduates" of that movement when they grow up marry and start families.

It is the hilltop youth that are keeping the dream of Yishuv Haaretz alive, and are the "chalutzim" of our time. Much like their brothers in the Kibbutzim, the old guard has become fat and complacent in their red roofed villas and have forgotten the ideological basis for starting their communities in the first place. They no longer have the spark of self sacrifice, to go out and expand. To build, to conquer, and yes to Judaize as much of the land as they physically can while limiting the expansion of our "cousins". Their only interest is maintaining what they have, at all costs. Keeping the money flowing, and their kushy government patronage jobs. Even at the cost of throwing their brethren under the bus. We have reached the point of absurdity where what is good for the "Settlement Enterprise" is NOT good for for the Jewish People or the Land of Israel. Very much the opposite and thank G-d there are a few chutzpadik kids who are not embarrassed to openly say that the Emperor is Nekked.

And frankly they may not like these "hilltop youth" or their ideology, but where do they expect them to go? Most Yishuvim today still have fairly strict "acceptance boards" regulating who may and may not live in their towns. They desire to create a homogeneous monolithic demographic in their communities has come full circle and those who they rejected or rejected THEM are now a thorn in their sides. You basically threw them out of society, or at the very least did not make a place for them so don't go and complain when they are at odds with your values and way of life.

If anything it is the Yeshu Council and the Settler Leadership in general, and the Non Jewish Home party, not the "hilltop youth" that are "responsible for causing a great deal of damage while contributing very little". If not for them we would probably still be in Gush Katif and the Northern Shomron today and the population in Yehuda and Shomron would be significantly higher...

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Poll Results: "Should I Go To The Depeche Mode Concert?"

26 of the First Month 5769

Depeche ModeWell, the results are in, and I still don't know what I'm going to do. I will probably end up not going, but due to laziness more than anything else. It's a pain in the neck to get back home from Tel-Aviv at night. After a bus to Ari'el, I have to depend on tremping to Tapu'ah Juction, then a schlep up the hill to the yishuv. I do not like to try to tremp from Ari'el at too late of an hour, otherwise I'm stuck there for the night. We'll see. Maybe I'll find a place to stay in Tel-Aviv. Who knows.

Irregardless of if I go to the concert or not (and by now, you're probably all saying to yourselves, "Who even cares?"), I found the results of my poll to be rather interesting, albeit they are far from having any scientific reliability.








Answer # Votes %
1. Yes, you'll enjoy it. 13 44%
2. Yes, but go incognito. 3 10%
3. Yes, but go incognito and stand outside the concert and listen. 0 0%
4. No, it's a waste of NIS 300. 5 17%
5. No, it's galuthi and mixed, and thus hypocritical for you to go. 8 27%

Sixteen voted for me to go, and 13 not to go. Personal e-mails to me indicated that there were definitely some MO's

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Poll: Should I Go To The Depeche Mode Concert?

27 of the Twelfth Month 5769

Depeche ModeI have been a Depeche Mode fan for over 25 years. I have not seen them in concert since 1988, and my last opportunity would have been Motza'ei Tisha b'Av 5766, when it would have been assur (prohibited) to go to a concert. As it happens the concert was canceled, apparently due to complications caused by the Second Lebanon War.

Depeche Mode is expected to come back to Israel on May 10.

So, the question is, should I go to the concert?

Please participate in the poll in the upper, right-hand corner of this page.

You may list your "other" and "none of the above" answers, wise cracks, and queries below in the comments section of this post.

Here are a few videos to help you decide. Let me know if any of you begin to feel any nostalgia.

"Shake The Disease" (1985)




"Never Let Me Down Again" (1987)




"Enjoy The Silence" (1992)



Thursday, October 23, 2008

Poll: "How should the pritzus problem during Simhath Beth HaShoevah be stopped?"

25 of the Seventh Month 5769

Well, time's up, and the results have been tabulated. Many of you are already familiar with Blogger's poll feature (See "Layout" - "Add a Gadget"). This one was my first, and I had a little fun with it.

Every year in Jerusalem, though not so much this year, there is an uproar over the "Pritzus" problem (immorality, permissiveness, promiscuity) during Simhath Beth HaSho'evah (today's vernacular for "Sukkoth celebrations). "Pritzuth HaGadder" (lit.: "breaking through the fence") can include anything from women being dressed inappropriately in public, intermingling of the sexes, male-female chit-chatting, hand-holding or worse, which I will not mention here. Like it or not it's a bit of a subjective term these days, as are "inappropriately," and "intermingling."

Scientifically, there are many problems with this poll, mainly sample size, sample draw, and even response choices. The opportunity to vote for some of the options may have been more of an incentive to bother to vote at all, than other options.

I won't even bother with any statistical tests, such as an analysis of variance. It wouldn't mean much anyway. However, I believe that I can infer a few things from the poll, or at least have a little fun and guess at who reads my blog, or at least visited the URL at least once.

First, here are the responses and the associated results:






Answer# Votes%
1. Get Toldos Aharon and Toldos Avraham Yitzhaq to stop serving food.13.6%
2. Impose a curfew on the women.27%
3. These heinous and oppressive acts of the patriarchal hierarchy must stop!414.3%
4. What pritzus problem?2175%


I am quite surprised that only one person voted for #1, probably the most neutral and logical of the four options. The person who voted for this option is probably one of the few people who voted who has actually ever visited one or both of these batei midrash. (I know that there are more than one of these individuals who has paid them a visit.) Feeding the hungry is an important misswah. Yet, providing only drinks will attract those actually interested in the music and dancing, and not just in sitting around fressing and kibbitzen.

Those who voted for #2 simply want to know who is at home watching the kids. Yeah, right. I'll take the Fifth....

Those who voted #3 include tinoqoth shenishbah, feminutsies, and/or followers of "She who must not be named" (AKA: The Dark Mistress). I threw in this option to see what would happen. But then I made the mistake of mentioning the poll while commenting on a post by Jack at The Muqata, where such individuals might have been lurking about at the time. I don't regret mentioning it. I just think it may have skewed the results, and now there's no way to know for sure.

Those who voted for #4 include a diverse group of people, which I believe includes, but is not limited to, "American Haredim" (not all Haredim who are American fall into this category, not by a long shot), Modern Orthodox (who didn't vote for #3), mainstream Chabba"dniqs (as a lot of the complaints are against one of their Sukkoth celebrations), mamlachtim, and Jacob Da Jew, who like myself, sometimes finds himself outside of the box.