(Illustration by Sabina Saad)
We ought to be crying and screaming day and night. We should be banging our heads against the wall. We should cover ourselves with sackcloth and mourn over the disaster we are hearing about... Schools to teach Jewish children how to speak, act, and dress like non-Jews... Woe to us! We have been robbed! Woe to us!... We have seen how those who have grown up with such values turn into atheists... They desecrate Shabbos... They commit evil deeds... Worse, they make a mockery of our entire Torah... We find ourselves in the very midst of the horrendous troubles foreseen by our prophets prior to the coming of Mashiach...