Panhandlers Dress as Jews to Beg from Orthodox
Non-Jewish panhandlers dress as Jews and station themselves in Orthodox-Jewish New York neighborhoods to maximize earnings, reports the New York Post.
From the NY Post:
A savvy crop of panhandlers has been donning long skirts and head coverings to beg from Hasidic Jews in South Brooklyn neighborhoods before sabbath and religious holidays.
Armed with a few Hebrew words like “shabbat,” “shalom” and “tsedaka,” the word for charity, the impersonators stake out popular food markets.
“They go, ‘Sedaka.’ They’ll push a child in a carriage. A lot of non-Jewish people can’t pronounce the ‘T’ and the ‘S’ [in ‘tsedaka’], so you know they’re not Jewish,” Bernard Vei, 56, an Orthodox Jew, told The Post.
“We’re good people; we always give. That’s the problem — they think we have all of the money in the world!”
so sad
what people do to get money these days
OBAMAH CARE
Moishie
This is new? They have been here for years. At least they ask the others just grab and run.
Read the NYPost article
it’s a kiddush Hashem
non-jews
there are a group pf non-Jewish women who situated themselves on Kingston Ave. and with a whining voice they say “Shabbat”. they were found to be indian, and non-Jewish.
Many yrs,.ago, the same group put up a “show”:.one of them in a wheelchair, one with crutches etc along Kingston between Union & President Sts.
MJ
A number of years ago, I was in 770 when a shnorrer approached me. After giving him a small donation, he asked, “What is this CHanookah (with a hard “ch”, not a gutteral “ches”) thing anyway?”
thats why
thats y i stop giving them dont know who legit i only give kcvs and rabbi lieder or other know organizations that i know are real