Why, I love Sdei Chemed

The girl who signed this letter was our top iddos award winner for 2011. So sad that her school never saw that part of her. We did, and maybe that's why she loves us for it.

Dear Elisheva,

        Just want to thank you so much for giving me the best summer of my entire life. I know everyone tells you this but, I can't begin or even tell you how amazing it was for me! This camp is perfect, the staff, all the trips we had, and inspirational places we went to. I listened to all the speeches we had and wanted to gain from all of them. The things we did were just so much fun!

Pritzus, I know it when I see it!

Filed under: Exposing hypocrisy via sarcasm and hyperbole. “Sarcasm is the body's natural defense against stupidity”

Our Camp Sdei Chemed Girls at Meorat Hamachpeila.

Faces are blurred for Tznius reasons 

I wrote  this a little while back, and decided to keep it for my own sad amusement. But a recent scenario threw me over the edge and motivated me to to publish this. I posted a photo on my website of some campers of mine and evidently one girl had her sleeves rolled up above her elbows. One commentator had nothing better to do then to point out this incredible breach of tznius. If this was isolated I would just ignore it. But it isn't. I get calls many times from Bais Yaakov teachers pointing out that they saw too much skin on a campers photo. Seriously, where did we go wrong? When have we become so obsessed with chitzonius. We tell our girls its the inside that counts but all we do is judge them by how many inches they cover. We should be praising these girls for wearing long sleeves in over 100 degree weather!

I wrote this in response to a community letter that was printed in a Flatbush newspaper. I'm told letters like this are quite common. But instead of printing the original letter I will just underline the quotes I took from it.

Dear Rabbi X,