I work with two guys who are part Israeli/part American. They are Dati Leumi. And they have two personalities. There's the American personality with which they operate their business. Honest and pleasant. The Israeli personality comes out when they talk of other subjects. They regularly bash Haredim who they depict as dirty, lazy, violent, and worst of all (in their eyes) shamefully unwilling to join their ridiculous military. I ask them to stop. They keep doing it. When they tell me that Haredi neighborhoods are filthy, I open the front door of our office in a secular neighborhood and show them the pile of junk that we have been staring at for two years. I remind them of the pile of junk on the road near the office that we pass on the way to work. This doesn't affect their bad habit of sinas chinam charedim.
Now a second story. One of the guys asked me if I knew of a shiduch for his older unmarried daughter. I said I'd think about it, but I could get a bracha from a tzadick that I was going to see that day. The tzadick gave a nice bracha. I noted that it seemed particularly heartfelt. Four months later my coworker said that he should get a mazel tov because his daughter was engaged. I asked when she met the guy. Turns out, it was a few days after the tzadick's bracha. The tzadick is Haredi of course. I told them about the possible connection, but the Haredi bashing continues.
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