Rabbi Shmuel Y Davidsohn
@SDavidsohn
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Chair IAG @MPSHaringey | CEO Chaverim Youth Organisation | Security Co-ordinator @CST_UK | Co-founder of the Tottenham Jewish Association
South Tottenham
Joined December 2011
Thank you @CPSUK for meeting us @CST_UK with the victim of this awful hate attack. This is a very important step in the right direction. Justice must be served to send a message that hate won’t be tolerated. Thank you @CST_UK for working to protect and defend our community.
CST welcomes @CPSUK decision to reinstate religiously aggravated charges against Abdullah Qureshi for alleged assaults on Jewish people in Stamford Hill last August. This reverses earlier decision to drop these charges that led to immense upset in the community /1.
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RT @perayahmet: Always a pleasure to get together with friends in Stamford Hill for the Purim celebration. This year hosted by @SDavidsoh….
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16/ I truly understand the pain of feeling lonely during Chanukah, I really do. Please do yourself a favour and seek professional support. There are several Charedi organisations that would gladly help.
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15/ Constructive criticism based on solid, proven facts is one thing, but baseless accusations and sweeping insinuations about a community you left over 10 years ago, without strong evidence, are pure slander. This one 'fact' tweet speaks volumes.
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14/ In N15, homes can’t be subdivided without staying single-family, and Hackney’s rules are even stricter. Subdividing needs permission and in Hackney costs £50k per new unit, making such a “on paper” scheme unrealistic at scale.
3. People in 'on paper' concert some rooms of floors in their own home into separate flats. They will 'on paper' rent out these 'flats' to another person who doesn't actually live there (eg he/she still lives with their parents). 👉.
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13/ Kosher food and large families make life more expensive. What Stamford Hill are you talking about where most homes are “extensive and decorated”? Too many here live in small flats, shop at the charity cost shop, and rely on AliExpress for clothing.
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12/ “Apparently"? If it’s so easy and widespread, why stop at synagogues and mikvahs? Why not schools, businesses, and homes too? If you think we’re all ‘leeches,’ wouldn’t everyone be doing it?.
5. For a fee, you can have your electricity and water supply illegally connected to the mains on the street, thus avoiding paying any water, electricity, or gas bills. Apparently some synagogues in Stamford Hill have built their mikvas (ritual baths) like this.
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11/ The majority of Charedi schools are independent, receive no state funding, and are inspected by Ofsted - reports show clear improvement. They are saving the taxpayer tens of millions a year by not being in the state sector.
So taxpayer money is going to finance an education system that gives the kids little employability skills. These kids naturally then go on to be further dependent on the tax payer when they grow up and claim benefits - usually fraudulently anyway. 11/.
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10/ Satmar is clearly on the right of the Charedi spectrum. Ofsted says their boys’ school in Stamford Hill requires improvement but has “a broad curriculum covering all areas of learning.” Claiming there’s “minimal to zero general education” is untrue.
B. You refuse to abide by the regulations that all educational institutions in this country are expected to abide by. Because your children get minimal to zero general education, they struggle to bring in enough livelihood to support their expensive lifestyle. 6/.
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9/ In fact, the number of Charedi schoolchildren with statement's in our community is much less than that of general state schools. The “huge percentage” you refer to, has no basis in reality.
4. There's large amounts of money available for special education through SENCO. A psychologist (who is in on it and gets a cut) will sign off a huge percentage of kids as having special educational needs.
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8/ For a child to get an EHCP, they must be assessed by an educational psychologist from the Local Authority. SEND provision is inspected extensively by Ofsted and faces additional Local Authority scrutiny. Zero chance for such fraud!.
ipsea.org.uk
An education, health and care (EHC) needs assessment is an assessment of the education, health care and social care needs of a child or young person. Who will carry out the assessment? Your local...
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7/ I assume you’re not referring to the unregistered setting you attended, as children there can’t receive SEND funding. Your claims about registered Charedi schools, however, reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the process.
Schools are getting millions for 'special education' and for after school clubs, but all this money is a sham. Most of the kids don't need special education and the after school clubs are just on paper. The money goes instead to financing religious education. 10/.
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6/ Let’s break down some of your generalisations and inaccuracies, many of which are outright libellous.
@shlishkas As to your second point, it's interesting that chazal already say, .כשהם יורדים יורדים עד לעפר וכשהם עולים עולים עד לרקיע. Also, Jewish success is a fact, not a conspiracy.
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5/ Despite being absent from the Charedi community for 10+ years, you continually position yourself as an exposer of its current practices. Notably, you attended the only unregistered Cheder at the time, yet claim expertise on registered Charedi schools.
You must feel sorry for @PosenIzzy He left anti zionist satmar and tashbar school (home school?) where he was beaten for his questions only to bump into yet more anti zionists in his new life and again be knocked for his views. Keep it up boy!
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4/ Fraud exists across all sectors of society and ethnic groups. The allegations you’ve made are riddled with insinuations and false assumptions.
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3/ Here are the facts: The Charedi community in the UK, like any other, includes a mix of socio-economic backgrounds, with both affluent and struggling families. Schools also range from high-performing to those facing challenges.
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2/ It’s striking how some individuals, quick to condemn generalisations or prejudice when directed at Jews as a whole, seem entirely comfortable engaging in those very behaviours when it comes to the Charedi community.
@PosenIzzy @Stamhilloffline @pobox168 @StamfordHillie @SHillOnline1 @ifyoutickleus "Whilst there are isolated instances of bigotry, this does not justify a paranoid worldview that sees hate and oppressors everywhere" - Izzy Posen.
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1/ It seems @PosenIzzy had a tough Chanukah, prompting yet another tirade against the Charedi community. I, too, had a very hard Chanukah - the first without my late dear wife - but going on a hate rant won’t do you any good.
@jonathanross @Mordygg I should have qualified that I'm talking about the Stamford hill community. The reason I didn't was that I wanted to make a general point without targeting a specific community. But I see how by doing that I ended up targeting a whole wider community.
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RT @guardian: Private faith schools in England lobby for VAT exemption on fees under £7,690
theguardian.com
Group says government policy would force many to close and leave deeply religious families with no alternatives
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RT @DavidLammy: Today I met Rabbi @SDavidsohn to remember the victims of the October 7 attacks. The past year has had devastating impacts….
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RT @InterlinkFDN: To mark the 4th anniversary of Rabbi Avrohom Pinter's passing, @hackneycouncil honoured his legacy by opening the Quartet….
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