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We just finished the Yom Tov of Chanuka. Will we internalize its lessons and act on them?
Do we really know what the lessons are?
As we live now in one of the spiritually darkest times in the history of the world, we must understand the modus operandi of the choshech in order to fight it. We find the answer in the story of Chanuka.
What did the Yevanim want to force us into?
They hated the ideas of serving Hashem, of ruchniyus, of purity. They would not have objected if we had kept mitzvos as cultural observances. But for us to believe in One G-d and worship Him alone and do what He commanded us because He said so - that, the Greeks could not abide.
Their worldview was completely physical. Even their “gods” were human-like. The Yevanim worshipped the physical. They couldn’t stand a People who stood for something higher. They attempted to drag us down into their darkness, and they tragically succeeded in ensnaring much of Klal Yisrael in their trap.
How does darkness operate? How did we get fooled?
The Mesilas Yeshorim tells us that darkness can do two things. It can make you unable to see something that is in front of you. But it can also make you believe that something you see is actually something it isn’t. For example, in the dark, you might think that a person is really a pillar, or a pillar is a person.
This confusion - the mixing up and the mixing together of good and bad - is a force that has never gone away from the world, even though the Macabim defeated the Yevanim at the time. And right now, this darkness is stronger than ever before.
That means that it has become ever harder to discern what is truly good, and what is actually great evil, masquerading as good.
We must think ever more critically (and never stop thinking), to evaluate which organizations, movements, and publications are on the side of Hashem, and which are actually the Misyavnim.
A mix of good and bad is so confusing. Unless you are a “kano’i,” you are likely to overlook some “small” things that make you uncomfortable here and there, (or maybe not even notice them at all), because “there’s so much good being done by that group!” or “Rabbi so-and-so writes a column in that magazine/gives a hechsher on the hotel/is on the board of that organization… so it has to be OK!” or “that song is based on a Posuk/that video has frum actors/the restaurant is kosher!”
But that’s the whole point! They’ve mixed good and bad together to confuse you. The good is there to “kasher” the bad in your eyes. The mix of good and bad is bad.
Those on the side of Hashem will eventually prevail, that we know for a fact, no matter how small a force they are. Let’s be sure that is where we stand, firmly and proudly, and let the mixtures not confuse us.
Rav Shimon Schwab explains the connection between Chanuka and Parshas Mikeitz, (which is always lained on Chanuka.) Pharaoh dreamed of shriveled stalks of wheat consuming plump stalks, and then of emaciated cows consuming fat cows. We know that he awoke frantic to know the meaning of what he’d dreamt. But why was Pharaoh so sure that the dreams meant anything significant?
The answer is that he’d never experienced anything in real life like what he saw now. It contradicted the normal way of the world, in which the bigger and stronger always vanquish the smaller and weaker. And seeing this inversion of nature happen in front of his eyes really shook Pharaoh up.
The neis of Chanuka is a parallel to Pharaoh’s visions.
A fraction of Klal Yisrael had stayed faithful to Hashem and resisted the “mainstream.” They resisted the mammoth efforts of not only the Yevanim, but of so many of their own people who had gone over to the other side, the Misyavnim, to “Hellenize” them. And yet, this tiny force was victorious.
How many people joined Matisyahu when he cried out “Mi LaShem Ailai?” There are different opinions in Chazal, but it was not more than 13 men! They were unequipped and inexperienced, and were fighting against tens of thousands of professional soldiers, highly trained, with war elephants - the equivalent of today’s tanks. But they were fighting for Hashem!
Let us sensitize ourselves to Ratzon Hashem, and not follow blindly like sheep into the trap of today’s Yevanim, who seek to ensnare us in the most terrifying ways.
I have written recently about several grave threats to Klal Yisrael. (If you missed the articles, see my website, netzachyisrael.substack.com, or send an email to boruchweiss613@gmail.com. The link to one recent article is included at the end.)
In every case, our people have been led astray specifically because the sefer or organization in question contained an admixture of both good and bad, and/or had some apparent endorsements by Rabbonim, leading people to think it was alright.
Think critically! When things violate the Torah, they are not alright. And the Torah never changes.
There is a concerted global effort by the U.N. and the WEF, working in tandem with world governments, to normalize the most terrible things, and to absolutely ruin our children’s chinuch and the purity and goodness of our frum family life, with the goal of destroying Yiddishkeit - truly bayamim haheim, bazman hazeh.
I want to show you how they are normalizing previously unthinkable things in society. Unfortunately, it has already affected our communities in a big way.
Here is a window on the darkness, to help you understand what’s going on, and then some terrible practical examples of how our community has fallen into the trap as well.
The Overton Window of Opportunity
“The Overton window of possibility is the range of ideas the public is willing to consider and accept,” according to conceptually.org. The plan for how the “window” can successfully be moved is the result of extensive study of psychology and society.
The following piece on how the world powers silently move the Overton Window of Opportunity is part of a book published in Hebrew warning about the global agenda, titled “D’ma’os Shel Malachim.” The book was written by an anonymous author, to alert us to what we’re witnessing and what is planned, chas veshalom. This chapter was google-translated from Hebrew, and then edited and abbreviated.
The American sociologist Joseph F. Overton, describes a process for creating change in society in relation to any issue in the world. Things that were strictly taboo and forbidden were legitimized in hidden and unknown ways so that they could come be publicly acceptable.
Overton served as the senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in the United States. He dedicated his research to the fascinating question: How is it possible that things that have always been disgusting in the eyes of the public, suddenly manage to become legitimate issues that stand at the center of public debate, so much so that at the end of a process they even acceptable to the general society?
Overton came to an amazing conclusion.
In the right way, he claimed, any subject can be legalized, no matter how delusional, crazy, or controversial it is. What is needed for this is effort, determination, and a lot of patience. What is most important is proceeding correctly, step by step.
Overton described how completely unacceptable ideas among the public were taken out of the trash can of public scorn, washed and cleaned, so to speak, until eventually they were put in the law book, and became legitimate and approved by the public in practice.
Overton didn't just talk about 'gradual change'. You don't have to be a genius to say that. Everyone knows that cultural changes are made in small steps. And it doesn't always work, because even with small steps, it is impossible to legalize things that are strictly taboo.
Overton's method teaches something else. Overton explains how to find all kinds of bugs and loopholes in the wall of human culture, which allow the agents of change to penetrate through them, slowly but surely, and thus bring about the long-awaited change in society.
Many people who read about the Overton Window, read it superficially, and thought it was something theoretical with no practical ramifications for daily life.
But they were wrong. The Overton Window is all about practical techniques and doomsday weapons. The best of minds were used to create a tool for destruction of cultures and communities of peoples of all sorts, in an efficient and practical way. The technology is more effective than nuclear weapons.
The most striking example of the malicious and intentional use of the tools provided by the Overton method is the global campaign currently underway in all Western countries, to grant public, moral and legal legitimacy to those with the most morbid desires on earth. The organizations of the left and the liberals invest unimaginably huge sums on these techniques, which they currently see as the tip of the spear in their war against the religious, right-wing and conservative world and the values they represent. Unfortunately, they succeed.
By treading cautiously and calculatingly, according to the Overton model, they succeed in causing billions of people in the world to shake off the most basic foundations of the world of values in which they grew up. They get people to adopt concepts that in their eyes were once disgusting, and turn them into legitimate and legal things. At the same time, the one who thinks differently than them is presented as an archaic and rigid person, who sometimes may even get into trouble with the law.
The change is astounding and extreme. Those morbid creatures lacking human form, who sat on the social and moral dock until a few years ago - receive full protection. Those who sit on the real dock, in real courts, and receive real punishments, are the sane and normative people, who want to continue living with a straight scale of values and not the other way around.
How did such a radical, fundamental, and rapid change happen?
Officially, these moves are presented as if they were social processes occurring by themselves, as part of the development of the new generation. But that's not true. This is not a normal social process. This is an initiated and joint move by the liberals, the leftist circles, the courts, the liberal legislators, and the leftist media, operating according to the Overton outline.
Six Steps for Perceptual Transformation
People are not prepared to accept a radical change in their principled positions, especially if they are aimed at breaking the basic values and traditions that are deeply rooted in the soul. According to the principles of the "Overton Window," the solution is simple: adjust "the scale of what is allowed" in relation to the subject you want to allow, not immediately, but gradually, step by step, until the final goal.
This is not brainwashing, like it sounds, but a much more sophisticated technology. What makes it so effective is its consistent and systematic application. This is coupled with a lack of transparency of the planned impact for the target community/ victim.
The Overton's window layout is built on six steps:
The first stage is the "unacceptable" stage, in which, in fact, they are dealing with an idea that is completely contrary to public morality, and therefore is immediately ruled out. Overton discovered that anything that is 'illegitimate' is also 'non-existent' on the map of possibilities and in normal discourse. This is the first stage of the Overton model (a zero window of opportunity to change something).
For this purpose, they go on to the second stage:
They will not deal now with the legitimacy at all. They will just talk about it, and that's how it will turn from “nothing” to “something.” They make it at least 'exist'. The distance from 'existing' to 'legitimate' is very short, much shorter than you think... but right now they won't tell you what they want. Of course you won't object that much, and even if you object it won't help you much, because no one is coming to say that it is allowed and legitimate. They just want to talk about it a little bit. What's wrong with talking?
But creating a discourse and giving an abominable concept a place in human culture is not a simple matter either. After all, this is a truly abominable thing, right? This is exactly why Overton found all kinds of loopholes. First of all, they use the services of the academia and the researchers, who are ready to discuss virtually any topic.
They have academic discussions that portray the idea as extreme. The very talk erases the taboo, and opens the window for the buds of change.
Third stage: The creation of semantics that make the idea plausible among the public. This can be done by changing the name, or connecting human tendencies that support the change. Or, giving positive descriptions of people who have changed. With the changes of definition, slowly, the needle is moving.
Fourth stage: Discourse and artificial discussion in society, which will conclude that with clear boundaries as to what is forbidden and what is permitted, the idea becomes acceptable in certain cases.
Fifth step: Media storms are made, giving popularity to the idea in the press, and legitimacy among society (“Everyone has their way of doing things,” etc.)
Sixth stage: The idea now becomes political by raising it to a public debate, introducing it to the public consciousness. Slowly society internalizes the matter and treats it as something acceptable; and at the very end, it is accepted by law, its status officially, legally regulated.
Who would have dreamed?
Thus a previously unthinkable topic becomes part of an official policy and becomes accepted by the public in practice. The process enables the acceptance of the new law as a founder and protector of this 'something', which in the recent past was considered a terrible and shocking thing...
This method works on all people and all areas. It works on individuals, on groups, on countries - on everyone.
The Overton model in action
This is how the Overton model can process any idea that seems completely absurd to any human morality and logic, make it legitimate and qualify it to come into the public domain. Let's take, for the sake of demonstration, a completely absurd idea: Cannibalism.
Freedom of Expression
The first step of moving the Overton window: to move the issue of cannibalism from the unthinkable zone, to the radical zone. After all, in Western society the use of freedom of expression is approved, not to mention encouraged. So why not talk about cannibalism? The freedom of academic research in modern society is a sacred value, for which everything is permitted.
Eating people is forbidden. It is forbidden to legitimize it. Casting any doubt on the latter is also forbidden, from the point of view of society, absolutely forbidden. But there is one loophole - scientists are allowed to research and talk about everything. Woe to those who try to shut them up.
Anthropological Conference
Later, the scientists propose to hold an anthropological conference on "Exotic Customs and Rituals of Polynesian Tribes". The conference will discuss the history of cannibalism, introduce the concept into scientific discussion, and receive authoritative citations professionally. This creates the possibility to talk about eating a person and at the same time remain within the respectable framework of “science”.
Overton's window has begun to move. This means redefining the boundaries, which ensures a transition from the people’s most negative attitude towards the subject to a more positive one.
A group called “The Gang of Radical Cannibals” must appear, and it doesn't matter if it will only be established as a virtual website in the network. These Radical Cannibals will no doubt be quoted and featured in all relevant media outlets. Firstly, this is another reminder of the existence of the phenomenon. Secondly, there is a need for ostentatious exercises of this special phenomenon, in order to create the image of a radical scarecrow . These will be the "bad cannibals", as opposed to the scarecrow at the other end - "fascists who call for the burning of everyone who differs from them".
I will talk about scarecrows later. For starters, it's enough to publish articles about what British scientists and other kinds of radical perverts think about eating human flesh. In doing so, they arrive at the first result of moving the Overton window: the "unthinkable" enters the public consciousness. The taboo was destroyed. An unequivocal understanding of the problem was destroyed. In other words - shades of 'grey' were created in the mind.
At this stage, a new concept is introduced to people - "the issue of cannibalism". There is an issue here, there is a topic. It is complex and deep, with sides and arguments. It's not just human monsters that eat each other, but a deep academic-research-cultural issue, which supposedly requires an in-depth discussion...
Change the Name
In the next step, the window moves forward and transfers the cannibalism from the "radical" field to the "possible" field. At this point, they will continue to quote "scientists" - it is impossible to turn their backs on knowledge - about cannibalism of course. A person who refuses to discuss the issue will be declared archaic and outdated, hypocritical and arrogant.
On the way to the condemnations of self-righteousness, we must come up with an elegant name for cannibalism. This is so that all the fascists of all kinds will not dare to call those who "think differently" by the horrible connotation that begins with the letter "C".
Pay attention! The creation of the cultural term is the decisive moment! In order to whitewash the unpalatable idea - the original name must be replaced.
From this moment on, within a few months, the concept of cannibalism will completely disappear from the field, as it were. Just like various concepts disappeared in the past and new and more modern names appeared in their place. Cannibalism will be called from now on - anthropophagy. This term will be replaced soon, afterwards it will later also be defined as too insulting.
The goal in inventing new names is to distract the public from the essence of the taboo phenomenon with the literal definition; we need to separate the form of the word from its meaning, and to smear the ideological opponents. Cannibalism becomes anthropophagy, later it becomes anthropophilia, similar to a criminal who changes his name and identification.
At the same time as we play the name game, the underlying precedent event is produced - historical, mythological, topical and even simulated - the main thing is that it looks legitimate. It will be found, or invented, as "proof" that anthropophilia can be a legitimate thing.
"Do you remember the myth about the devoted mother, who gave her children dying of thirst to drink her blood?"
"And what about the stories about gods from ancient times who ate each other in order? The Romans accepted this as routine!"
The main goal of these sentences, at this stage, is to remove cannibalism from the criminal domain, at least partially, and at least once, at some historical moment.
Artificial Battlefield
After a precedent / legitimate / historical case has been presented, an opportunity arises to move the Overton window from the realm of the "possible" to the realm of the "rational". This is the third stage, in which the negative phenomenon crashes and disperses into small pieces.
"The desire to eat a person is genetic, it is in a person's nature, a person loves his own kind."
"Sometimes eating a human being is necessary, there are circumstances that cannot be refused, like in the Holocaust."
"There are people who desire to be eaten."
"The free man has the right to decide what he will eat."
"The tendency to eat grass is exactly the same as the tendency to eat those walking on two legs."
"Don't hide information. That way everyone will decide for themselves whether they are an anthropophile or an anthropophobe."
"Is there really any harm in anthropophilia? This is a folk myth that has not been scientifically proven."
An artificial 'battlefield' is created in the public's mind. At both ends they place the 'scarecrows' of the radicals both in favour of anthropophilia and those who are against it. The real opponents - those who do not wish to remain indifferent to the problem of removing the definitions of cannibalism - these people are automatically associated with 'scarecrows' and labeled as racists.
The role of these scarecrows is to create an image of crazy psychopaths on both sides of the fence: aggressive anthropophagy haters, fascists, who call for all cannibals, Jews, and communists to be burned alive. The media proudly provides exposure to all extremists - but they don’t provide any exposure for the real opponents of the legalization.
By representing the arguments in this way, the anthropophiles themselves are placed, so to speak, in the middle, between the radical scarecrows for and against, they are now within the range of what is considered normal. With all the pathos of "sanity and humanity", they condemn "fascists of any kind", and all manifestations of cultural intolerance of any kind .
Press, News, and Entertainment Programs
The "scientists" and the journalists, at this point, are proving to everyone that humanity throughout history has eaten one another, and that this is natural and quite normal. Quite impressive oil paintings by scandal-seeking painters showcase well-known and famous 'historical events' of cannibalism by the so-called good and well-known of the human race.
Now it is possible to transfer the subject of anthropophilia from the "rational" field to the "acceptable category". The Overton Window continues to move forward with vigor.
In order to publicize the issue of cannibalism in the public, we must have the support of popular content and link them to historical or mythological figures, and if possible, also, connect them with famous figures of today. Anthropophilia is making its way into news and entertainment programs in an acceptable way.
One of the marketing means of the advertising process is called "Look around you!"
"Didn't you know that that well-known composer is.. uh.. an anthropophile?"
“Did you know that, screenwriter so-and-so, who is known to everyone - all his life he was an anthropophile and was not even persecuted for it?"
“You know how many of them are put into psychiatric hospitals! How many millions were deported and stripped of their citizenship! By the way, what do you think about the new music video "Eat My Children"?
At this point the promoted topic hits the headlines, it begins to spread randomly in media, business and politics.
The next effective approach - the essence of the problem is discussed to extensively at the level of the information carriers: journalists, TV show hosts, social activists, etc. , without the participation of the experts.
At the defining moment, when everyone is bored and the discussion reaches a dead end, the expert chosen strictly for this purpose will come out and announce in the spotlight: "Gentlemen, things are actually not true at all. The problem is not here but there. And we need to do this and that." It even gives the specific direction required for further moving the Overton window.
Beautify the Bad
In order to justify the supporters of the legalization of cannibalism , the criminals are beautified with the help of humane and human characteristics that are not at all related to the essence of their crime.
"These are the people of the spirit and creativity. Well then, what if he ate his wife?"
"They really love their victims. Eat, I mean, love, like people who love fish - eat them ."
"Anthropophiles have a very high IQ. They are very conservative and moral in all other matters."
"The anthropophiles themselves are victims. They were forced to become what they are due to the constraints of a difficult life."
"They were brought up that way," and so on.
Confusions of this kind are simply the bread and butter of panel shows on television , the Internet, and other media .
Current Politics
The Overton window begins to move into its fifth stage only when the matter is 'heated up' enough to move it from a popular category to the realm of actual politics.
The process includes an activity to introduce a constitutional basis for the issue. Lobbyist and groups in the government are getting together and coming out of the shadows. Referendums conducted by sociologists are published which prove, so to speak, a high percentage of supporters for the legalization of cannibalism. Politicians are beginning to feel the pulse and issue public statements regarding official legislation to establish the matter.
Now, in the last stage of the window, and its transformation from “popular” to “current politics,” the public is already broken. The living part of them will still continue to oppose the constitutional establishment of things that were unthinkable until a relatively short time ago; But overall, the public is broken. They have had already agreed and surrendered to their loss. The laws were accepted; the norms of human life have now been destroyed; In the future, the concept will also be rolled out in schools and kindergartens and the next generation will grow up with this concept part of daily life without a chance to change it.
Not only can you legalize cannibalism, it is also possible to create a situation where the opponents of cannibalism are the ones who will be led to the gallows! This is exactly what has been done, not in a dark country somewhere, but in a incredibly cultured and modern country!
The Overton Model Works Amazingly Well.
Think about the Holocaust.
The German public of those days was very modern and intelligent. The most civilized, most kind and polite people in the world. The people of progress and enlightenment. Within a decade and a half they became the equivalent of cannibals. They may have not eaten people with a knife and fork, however they would have been able to do so without any problem.
Think of the soap made of human fat.
In Meron, at the entrance to Rabbi Yehuda Bar Ilai's cave, on the right side, there is a special grave where they buried the fat soap that remained after the war - the infamous soap of the Nazis. This soap was made from the fat of their victims. The soap circulated all over Germany, and no one saw anything wrong with it. Is there a difference between eating human flesh and using soap made from human fat?
The Nazis knew the method very well. They went step by step. It was not in one day that they turned from normal people into the most horrible and terrible monsters ever.
Here, these exact methods are used today in the western world to legalize all kinds of abominations, which include murder in the full sense of the word of babies, the terminally ill, and more. To beautify this horrible crime, this murder received the new-old washed-up definition “euthanasia.”
(End of quotes from the book.)
I wish I did not have to inform you about the things I’m about to show, but they are barreling down the path into our communities with great speed and tremendous force - and represent the greatest imaginable danger. They are here already. And they are being normalized by the evil United Nations and World Economic Forum, by government agencies including the CDC, and by unseen other forces, using the Overton Window.
First, I’ll show you things from the “outside” world, which will ch”v affect us very soon - and afterwards, you’ll see things from inside the Jewish community.
HIGH COURT RULES IN FAVOUR OF WELSH GOVERNMENT’S COMPULSORY LGBTQ+ TEACHING FOR 3- YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
The High Court has ruled today that the Welsh Government’s controversial plans to force LGBTQ+ teaching on all children from the age of 3 upwards is lawful and does not conflict with parental rights.
In a lengthy and comprehensive judgment handed down this afternoon (Thursday 22nd December 2022) Mrs. Justice Steyn rejected the judicial review by concerned parents against the Welsh Governments’ radical power grab which will force all children in Wales from the age of 3 to be subjected to the new Relationships and S..uality Education curriculum, which includes compulsory and explicit s..uality and LGBTQ+ teaching. For the first time, the parental right to withdraw their children from explicit … education classes had been removed from the law.
The controversial proposals, which were opposed by 90% of parents in the Welsh Government’s consultation, is to be subject to a “whole school approach” whereby themes of s..uality and LGBTQ+ are to permeate the whole curriculum.
The concerned parents argued that this new curriculum exposes their children to serious dangers, and that the common law protected parental rights to opt their children out of classes which they considered entirely inappropriate and conflicted with their religious and philosophical beliefs. This is the first time the courts have had to rule directly on this important question but Mrs. Justice Steyn held that:
“The case law and texts relied upon by the claimants do not support the existence of a fundamental common law right of excusal. I reject the contention that such a right exists.”
Further, she found that Article 2 of the First Protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights, which obliges the state to respect the right of parents “to ensure such education and teaching [is] in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions”, did not protect parental rights in the field of controversial … education.
Parents gathered outside the high court last month as five claimants connected to the campaign group, Public Child Protection Wales, challenged the Welsh Government on what they claimed was an extremely unbalanced, woke curriculum, based on unethical and highly controversial ideologies such as gender theory and queer theory.
Some schools across Wales are embracing elements of this new curriculum already and reports of children as young as four being told they can “be born in the wrong body”. Concerns are rising daily with reports of children coming home confused and upset, some parents claim their children have been “traumatised by (certain) images.” (edited for decency.)
Kim Isherwood, one of the claimants and the spokesperson for the campaign said:
“We asked the High Court to recognise the overreach of power by the government, we asked the court to help us protect our children from future emotional, physical, and psychological harm. The evidence we provided to the court referenced and highlighted concerning levels of betrayal, deceit and false claims made by the government, but it appears as though the judge agrees with them - not only do we parents not have rights, but they were never there to begin with. The team is preparing the appeal, the higher the court the louder the message. This is not a loss; this is another level of exposure. We look forward to another court hearing in the coming weeks where we will fight all the harder to protect our children from a dangerous woke agenda gone off the rails.
Lucia Thomas, co-founder of Public Child Protection Wales, and spokesperson for the campaign: “My main concern is Justice Steyn quoting Professor Emma Renold and the support of her work on this RSE curriculum. Emma Renold references her own work and has a deep-rooted belief that childhood and childhood innocence is a myth. We look forward to another day in court.”
For Interviews:
Kim Isherwood 07494 440527 kimberleyisherwood@yahoo.co.uk
Lucia Thomas 07723 603235
luciathomas.acca@gmail.com
https://www.publicchildprotectionwales.org/_files/ugd/9e6336_31b8fe32ce984637be1661b85be6d2e1.pdf
And this: (Why are they all focused on three-year-olds? I guess they realized it’s the age to begin chinuch!)
Healthcare Professionals Trained to Ask Three-Year-Olds About Their Gender Identity
By Spencer Lindquist
A course for healthcare professionals urges them to start asking children as young as three years old about their gender identity.
The online module from the Fenway Institute, titled “Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents,” advocates that those in the medical field take an “affirming” approach to gender dysphoria in youth.
The module, which discusses the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery, is eligible for continuing medical education requirements, which some medical students, residents, and professionals need in order to maintain their positions.
One section of the module, titled “Asking pediatric patients about gender identity,” tells medical professionals to “start around age three.”
Medical professionals are told again later in the module to ask toddlers about their gender identity. After users select an answer to a multiple-choice question, a slide says, “pediatricians should start asking patients about gender identity starting around 3 years old.”
Additionally, the module also provides those in the medical field with multiple websites and graphics that are aimed at children and can be used to indoctrinate them with gender ideology.
One such graphic referenced in the module is the “gender elephant,” a diagram of a cartoon elephant that argues that gender identity, sex, and gender expression are all distinct. A variant called the “gender unicorn” is also displayed on the site.
Meanwhile, the online module also promotes the “gender book,” a graphic novel that encourages readers to be a “gender justice superhero” by supporting “political action that increases awareness of and protects the rights and safety of gender minorities. Drag king, transmasculine, and genderqueer are all listed as different gender identities.
The Fenway Institute, the healthcare organization that created this module, has repeatedly endorsed the “gender-affirming” model of care. Breitbart News previously revealed that the organization produced a guide for healthcare professionals that taught them to pressure parents into accepting their child’s transgender identity.
That guide from the Fenway Institute states, “Potential signs that a family needs additional help and resources to come to accept and support their child’s gender diversity” include “referring to the child’s gender diverse identity as a ‘phase,’” “Inconsistent name/pronoun use,” and, “Using incorrect gendered words like ‘son’ or ‘daughter.’”
Another article by the same author, also on Breitbart, is “General Motors Funds Effort to Embed Pro-Transgender Books in Classrooms.”
General Motors (GM) donated to an LGBT organization that supplies kindergarten and elementary classrooms with pro-transgender children’s books.
Then the piece describes absolutely, shockingly, horrible books that are being put into classrooms to confuse, indoctrinate, and totally mess up these poor innocent kids.
Another article on the same site is titled “CDC Pushes Teachers to Measure Commitment to ‘LGBTQ Inclusivity’ Instruction.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an “assessment tool” for teachers and school administrators to measure their commitment to “LGBTQ inclusivity” in their classrooms.
“The CDC’s imprimatur on this ‘self-assessment tool’ — and the inclusion of numerous links to resources and activist organizations — amounts to little more than bullying teachers, administrators, and school health professionals who might have reservations about ‘affirmation’ and ‘inclusion’ efforts in schools,” Parents Defending Education founder and president Nicole Neily told Breitbart News. “It is troubling that the during a global pandemic, this is where the CDC’s efforts were focused.”
The CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health posted the “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool” to Twitter on Tuesday. As a self-assessment, the goal of the tool is to rate a teacher’s or school administrator’s commitment to the ideology and suggest places where the they can be better “allies.”
CDC “Inclusivity Continuum.” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
If a teacher or administrator is “minimally inclusive,” they are “not yet well prepared to provide inclusive and supportive environments for LGBTQ students. Commit to making changes, and you will move up the continuum in no time!”
No, our communities are not assured that we will be just fine. They are coming for us.
They will surely soon attempt to force us to use such books and teach such topics as well.
But even before they have done so, it has crept silently, like a plague, into our community.
Many don’t even know, but unbelievably, among those who are aware that the plague is already here, not everyone understands that it’s terrible. Not everyone who considers themselves “Orthodox” realizes that we cannot associate ourselves in any way with people who promote or are OK with LGBTQ ideology in any shape or form.
Shalom Task Force is mentioned in the above article. Shalom Task Force had its employees attend an LGBT sensitivity training seminar. The Executive Director of Shalom Task Force, Shoshannah Frydman, put a “like” on a “Happy Pride Month” post on social media.
This person obviously does not have Torah values, and the organization does not run according to Halacha. Shalom Task Force partners with Footsteps, with the Reform JWI, and with the mostly-Reform, heavily pro-to’eiva Jewish Education Project.
Doesn’t Tehillim 139 tell us to hate the enemies of Hashem? Footsteps actively works to rip people away from Yiddishkeit. If they are not the enemies of Hashem, who is? And yet, Shalom Task Force partners with them?
Shalom Task Force’s lead attorney, Kim Susser, actually helped write Footsteps’ legal advice manual for a divorcing parent who is going off the Derech and trying to take their kids along.
What is the Jewish Education Project?
https://www.jewishedproject.org/
On this site you will find many Reform women “Rabbis”, but also frum women in shaitels. How do they allow themselves to be together with Reform, and on a site which offers a plethora of LGBT educational material for “Jewish” schools to use? This is only a part of the material:
Obviously, the “Orthodox” “Rabbis” answering the Q and A on their site are an anomaly and are “Orthodox” and “Rabbis” in name only. But it’s a horror to see, and a tremendous Chilul Hashem.
Doesn’t any association by Orthodox professionals or schools with this organization intensify the desecration of Hashem’s name?
Hopefully, no schools who call themselves “Orthodox” are using the LGBTQ material. But do some get other educational material and support from this treif place?
The Jewish Education Project, in addition to providing educational materials, states that they help day schools and yeshivas secure government funding.
I have no idea who does and who does not avail themselves of The Jewish Education Project’s “help.”
But the partnerships between openly Reform organizations and organizations which advertise themselves to the frum community and pretend to be kosher are deeply troubling. The links between Shalom Task Force/Footsteps/JEP/JWI/JOWMA etc are just the tip of the iceberg. There is infiltration happening, and it’s meant to destroy our values and our way of life.
The Overton Window is being used successfully on us.
How can we have any association with those who openly ignore the Torah?
How confused have we become?
This is the deepest choshech.
May HKB”H open the eyes of our people and help us do Teshuva.