Violence and Drugs in the Yeshivot for Chozrim B'Tshuvah

B"H

There have been entirely too many incidents of extreme violence and drug use in yeshivot for "chozrim b'tzhuvah" in Tzfat.

A recent story shocked me to the core. A 17-year-old boy learning in one of these yeshivot was attached by a mature man, also learning there. While asleep the the older man attacked the boy, bashing his head a number of times with a large rock.

Just two or three weeks before that an arguement turned into a knife fight in the same institute of "higher moral/spiritual learning".

"Chozrim b'tshuvah", alek.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat