Opinion of Kiryas Joel, New York

[Brittain33]

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This. hassidic approach to politics and the affairs of the "Goys" is not something easy to explain to western people (I can hardly understand them and I know their culture pretty well).

I'm not sure what you mean, there is nothing particularly complicated about "we will vote for those who will give us more stuff".

That's a very simplistic view of a concept that is built upon a "tradition" of over 1200 years rooted in religious writing

What complexity is being missed by that description?

For what it's worth, while you can trace Jewish scholarship pretty far back, Hasidism only goes back a few centuries and Hasidic participation in a democracy is strictly a post-WWII phenomenon.