How the Hasidic Community votes

This poster urges people to vote for candidates who “understand and respect our rights.”
In the red part it cries, “We need to ensure that the government officials don’t give in to their provocations!” This refers to Yaffed and other activist efforts that have been trying to force change in Hasidic boy’s schools through legal action with the city and state.
The poster says, “In the current elections some far left candidates are running, and it is expected that they will have less understanding of our religious rights, and there is a terrible danger that they will buy into (not monetarily!) the empty provocations.”

This is another poster appealing to people on the grounds of preserving Hasidic education. It says, “Our holy education is under attack by vicious elements. The attorney general candidate ‘Tish James’ promised to fight discrimination and vicious attacks on religion in particular.”

Again—this is about defending Hasidic education status quo. “The future of Orthodox Judaism is on the line! Every registered Democrat in the entirety of New York State is asked, for the good of the public and the individual, to vote in the primary elections this Thursday for Letitia (Tish) James.”

This is from the newspaper and it lists the following reasons to vote for Tish James: “from parks to the eruv (wire to allow for carrying on Shabbes.) From education to building yeshivas. From businesses to social services, there are hateful elements on the street (within the population?) and in the government who aim their hate against pious Jews. An Attorney General has the choice to god-forbid join the hate, or to defend the rights of the local people and to treat with empathy in judgement when someone messes up with the law.” (Gay/abortion/Israel issues much? Ha!)

“Investigations! Abloves (??), arrests!”

I have no idea what abloves means; I sometimes wonder if some standard Yiddish speaker wrote these, because I’ll often have to ask German speakers to translate some words for me, like “tzil bret” in this one, which I didn’t know was a shooting target. This poster promises to go after serious crime.

This poster advocates for Simcha Felder and is another warning about the far left’s lack of religious understanding. “If you stay home, you elect left-liberals.” The poster warns that this can mean no door-to-door transportation (for the kids, to school (Williamsburg is known to be a hub of school buses), no millions in funding for the community, danger to the traditional education.

This is another ad for Simcha Felder, thanking him for helping the community, especially with the breakthrough of the “school bus transportation program.” “The program helps substantially with the safety of our children, and helps with the high transportation costs of the parents.”