JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An elderly charedi man tried to solicit donations to charity near a fashionable tower in Ramat Gan. A passing man snapped the senior citizen and commented that “This is what happens when they don’t learn core curriculum”, implying that the man was uneducated and incapable of supporting his family.
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Charedi journalists who saw the humiliating caption were incensed, but after checking up on the man’s background, they realized that he was actually a war hero who had fallen on hard times.
Daniel Amram discovered that the man’s name is Yosef Edri of Bnei Brak. Edri went to regular schools, speaks a few languages and served for 18 years in the IDF, including during the Yom Kippur war. During the course of his service he fell sick. Edri’s grandchildren are also serving in combat units in the IDF.
In recent years, Edri fell on hard times after his wife fell sick and her medical treatments were costly. After she passed away, his own condition deteriorated and he started asked for donations. Tens of Israelis who saw the picture online donated to Edri.
The journalists criticized the secular person for assuming that the man had never studied just because of the way he was dressed.
Avi Greenzeig, a chareidi journalist, wrote that “This is by far the most disgraceful tweet of the year. To take a random person when you have no idea who he is and what his story is and to tarnish and entire community and generalize against them as if there are no mendicants, druggies, criminals and othere problems among the alumni of other educational institutions around the world. It’s not too late to erase and apologize.”
How can we give tzedaka to this person in need?
When i was around 18, I mistreated someone collecting. The guilt and shame still haunt me.
This is astonishing. The most educated and competent person can unfortunately be depended on others. On the other hand, I’ve seen people that are not the brightest, haven’t gotten a so called good education that are well off. Hashem is the one we need to daven to.
The response here implies that if this beggar was not an “educated” war veteran that somehow the tweet makes sense. How absurd.
Are all beggars chareidi???
Did someone at least launch a fundraiser so he can support his family without being available to attacks like this? Today and yesterday were the days that millions could have been collected for this Yid.
Cinos (cinot) chinim is out biggest blight the bais ha’migdos was destroyed 1955 years ago, we have to fix this
I was approached by an elderly woman around 15 years ago, who asked me for “Tsedooka”. I asked her to say “Shma Yisroel”, because I suspected her to be a Goyta, pretending to be from Unzerer. She said that she doesn’t know any “Shma”. When I told her that she was not what she represented to be, she sadly told me in perfect Yiddish, that in Russia she had no opportunity to learn anything about Yiddishkeit. I felt so awful at being Choished B’Ksheireh, that I gave her a $100, and apologized. A few months later, on the way to shul in Boro Park, I was approached by a young woman asking me for “Tsedookeh”. This time, I knew that SHE was certainly not Jewish, as it was Yom Kippur!
wow this uri breitman hate peddling liar who utilizes social media to falsely blames every problem on yeshiva education is a hate filled lying jerk he must definitely join y??????
Is there no social safety net in Israel to help people like this individual? Nothing like Medicare or Medicaid? Does anybody here know? Thank you.
Jewish antisemitism
Oy the zionists