Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Chasya, a rabbi’s daughter from Lakewood, New Jersey.
Jewish Religious Culture Glorify Lies, and Look Down on Beauty
I’m going to get religious on all of us for a second. There is a song we sing on the Sabbath, and it’s called Eishes Chayil, and there’s a line in it that says, HEVEL HACHEN SHEKER HAYOFI, which means that we glorify lies, and we make beauty ugly.
Jewish Religious Culture Shames Women for Sexual Health
Let’s say, we think that when someone abstains from promiscuity, that they’re prude and that they’re bad, because they care about sexual health. They want to be celibate. They want to have meaningful sexual relationships. You get scoffed at for that. Somebody who goes and makes $50 million off of porn is going to be praised. So in the same right, in Jewish religious culture, they’re going to take the ugliness, and they’re going to hide it. Jewish won’t necessarily beautify it, but they’re going to hide it.
Jewish Religious Culture Punishes Those Who Speak Up
The beauty of the people who have the courage to speak up, those people are going to get punished. Those people are going to get cursed. Those people are going to be found dead. Those people are going to be found blackmailed, because there’s like a whole underworld going on in these super religious circles where Jewish Religious Culture have their own police. They have their own. If there’s even landlord abuse, there’s organizations. Jewish Religious Culture have like their whole underworld going on, loaning and getting people out of trouble and lawyers.
