New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg crowed quite contentedly in an interview with The Atlantic about pushing back against those who opposed his measure to regulate metzitzah b’peh.
“I think it’s fair to say that nobody else would take that on. I mean, come on! Forget about the fact that—”They do what!?”—Who wants to have 10,000 guys in black hats outside your office screaming?” the Mayor was quoted as saying.
Now elected and city officials are strongly denouncing the Mayor’s remarks and demanding an apology.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind says his community deserves more than to be on the receiving end of “demeaning and derogatory” rhetoric. “When Mayor Bloomberg decided to run for a third term, he came to our community seeking favor with the Haredi community. He asked Orthodox, Torah-observant Jews to support his candidacy,” noted Hikind. “But we weren’t Black Hats when he needed us.”
New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield, also of Brooklyn, said the Mayor’s “hurtful” comments are offensive to not only the City’s “half-million Jewish New Yorkers,” but should also be upsetting to all of the City’s 8.5 million residents.
“For the Mayor to identify an entire religious group by the clothes they proudly wear is the basest of insults. It is even more offensive coming from a secular Jewish mayor. I don’t judge the Mayor or his religious practice; surely, he has no right to judge me or other members of the Orthodox Jewish community. It’s ironic that the Mayor appears to have respect for every other religion except his own,” Greenfield remarked.
Deputy Comptroller of Budget and Accounting Simcha Felder, a candidate in the State Senate race for the newly-created 17th Senate District, echoed Greenfield’s sentiments.
“First the Mayor moves to restrict our right to freely practice our religion. Then he uses offensive and derisive language aimed towards our community.
I am asking Mayor Bloomberg to apologize for these insensitive words, which simply do not have any place in our society, especially from our political leaders. I am also requesting that he end his attack on metzitzah b’peh and on religious freedom,” Felder said.
Shame on you Bloomberg. What weirdo goes around insulting Lubavitcher boys. You should be proud to be Jewish not hate your own religion. You think other religions do this you think they go around doing what you do. NO okay they DON’T! You have some nerve to do this. You should be ashamed of yourself.
wares your ahavas yisroel????!! and so ur saying that we should become more modern ha ha that will just assimilate us a black hats and yarmulkasare what s separates u from goyim
Truth is I dont think many Jews KNow aobut the origins of this . Most Jews and NOn Jews have heard of the bris mila and the origins the metzizah although probably practiced forever is not well known…and it would be good to quote the shulchan aruch and origins to give edification to most people
This mechutzef shaigitz’s Billions will count for nothing when he gets to Beis Din Shell Ma’aloh. Let him post that on Bloomberg News.
Bloomberg! More like Bloomerberg. Makes David Dinkins look like a Tzadik!
The only thing this menuval Bloomberg will take to his grave will be the scorn and derision of the entire jewish world and his Billions will count for nothing in Olam Ha’emess!
when you have a self hating jew worth several billion dollars the only apology the jewish community or anyone else is going to get is “K*** ** ****. When are we all going to wake up to reality that no one in this world gives a — about our feelings or beliefs even more so a self hating jew and a rich one at that.he needs us like a stale beigel. You all know what the Baal Hatanya said regarding actions of Goyim who seek our help (and self hating jews)really only do it ultimately for their own self aggrandizement!… Read more »
Mr Bloomberg is so far removed from his Jewishness and his humanity that his brain does not hear what his mouth says.. Perhaps if he stood on top of his money he would then be as tall as one of the New York Knicks and wouldn’t need to be the “little dictator” that he is.
Just ignore the little twerp, mostly he is a laughingstock.
Go ask a mohel, nobody here is running to open a shulchan aruch here for you, this is something that avhaham avinu did, its what yiden did for 3000years, and the rabbeim wanted it to be done b’peh, if you have any Shallos go ask a certified mohel
what is it like the N word and only other black hat wears can call each other black hatter?
The mayor is simply showing his pintele Yid. We make him feel very uncomfortable with his lack of Torah observance. The easiest way for him to deal with it is to put us down. Join the ranks mayor. Your in bad company.
quote is “guys in black hats” not “black hatters”
what’s wrong with saying that?
The mayor…support(s)…alternative marriage.
That’s why sodom was destroyed. Thays why millions of people are inflicted with AIDS. But he supports them!
Millions of Jews had Metzitzah B’peh. A handful are KNOWN to have contracted herpes , and of those, the cause was often their infected mother, not the mohel!
Bloomberg Stinks. This is his last term BARUCH HASHEM.
Now we have to get rid of Obama too.
I would also like to see an article on exactly WHY Metzitzah B’peh is practiced, and what is the Halachik source for it in Shulchan Aruch?
Big deal…everyone talks like this…they won’t admit it…it’s just a casual way of talking. I’m not offended.
The mayor’s BIG problem is support of alternative marriage. This is ‘At-Risk’ behavior and HE supports it.
Brains/Hearts anyone?
Between #9 And #11
We are all Black Hatters today.
self hating Jew!
i think dovid meant to say he wouldn’t deal with a black hatter..
what that means i dont know..
“balck hatters are a pain in the tush”.
“BALCK hatters” really!!
“i WOULD want to deal with them” so whats your problem? Deal with them.
“they are religiously arrogant, primitive,,,and simply nuts”
Look who’s calling the kettle black!!!!!.
Can someone please write an article explaining in detail why Metzitzah B’peh is practiced, and what is the Halachik source for it in Shulchan Aruch?
lets face it….balck hatters are a pain in the tush….i would want to deal with them…they are religiously arrogant, primitive,,,and simply nuts….dont blame bloomy…
time for liberal democrat bloomberg to go.
a mayor of nyc busy with soda drinks and hotdog eating shows, metzizah and what not. good work.
Shows we have power though, B”H we’re taken seriously.
Little dictator was all over frum yidden to get our vote (I wouldn’t have voted for him if I was paid). Now you see what he really is, a Muslim loving self-hating Jew.
Bet this was why he canceled his weekly spot on WOR this morning. B”H, I didn’t have to turn it off like I usually do. Go back to banning sodas, you megalomaniac!
always thought of us that way and nothing has changed.
May Hashem bless us with this sign of disrespect for Torah leaders being a true sign of Moshiach. Hashem willing, we will all dance with Moshiach this Shabbos.
Let’s thank all of the leaders including from Crown Heights that encouraged us to vote for him.
When 2013 comes lets remember that Ray Kelly is his lap dog.
now we see what he REALLY thinks of us…