You think this beating by a student in Public School was bad? Wait till you read this!

 

Violent classroom attack prompts calls for accountability in Public Schools across the country! Begs the question why some in NYC even have the #Chutspah to even say that Orthodox Jewish Yeshivas should be “equivalent to Public Schools??? Don’t they see the difference In values? https://t.co/aVogz1nK68

— UJCARE (@UJCARE) February 7, 2022

Gather round and pull up a chair, it’s time for a story on violence & silent bystanders inside a Yeshiva.

It’s a story of cruelty, and of compliance, and of indoctrination.

🧵/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Getting slapped in the face for the most minor infraction went without saying. (One of his favorite ways to hurt those he hated most was to hold us up on our tippy-toes by the soft skin under our chins until we got used to it & then WHACK us in the face w/o warning)

3/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

A classmate that year who was left back (possibly 2 grades) into our class due to severe learning disabilities, happened to have been the grandson of the Bobover himself. He very much seen as a ‘failson’.

Well Nuta won’t let the Ruv’s grandson fail HIS class, no way Jose!

4/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Nuta Landau, scary as he was, was particularly hard on this kid. He really tortured him on a regular basis. Gave him zero breaks and rode him hard. The boy had no chance to succeed, thus acted out in disruptive ways in response to the pressure. I mean, he was 9, 10 MAX.

5/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Finally the day came that he did something which REALLY annoyed Nuta. Nuta plotzed. He took that boy out of the class and around to the hallway beside our class wall.

But before they left he gave us all an icy stare and said “palms on desks. Nobody move or make a sound”

6/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

We sat there stalk-still. Nobody moved.

The aforementioned hallway was an annex we called ‘The Subway’ which had a sealed-off door into our class, making it less soundproof than a typical wall.

We heard him throw the kid on the floor and whip him with a belt.

7/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Inside the class we were frozen in place.

You could hear a pin-drop.

The only sounds were Nuta grunting, the ‘whoosh’ of the belt swinging, the ‘WHACK’ of it connecting to body, and the boy shrieking at the top of his lungs after each lash.

I mean bloodcurdling yells.

8/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

I don’t know who else heard what, but inside that classroom we heard each & every sound.

Not one boy moved or made a peep.

Nobody from another class went and rescued the kid.

It was a perfectly normal scene to have a rebbe whip a disabled boy with a belt in the hallway. 9/9 https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022