williamsburgh jews are not loosing connection. They were never taught or given a love for eretz yisroel. I’m not talkin about a love for the govt. of israel. But merely a love (chibas eretz yisroel)for eretz hakodesh. They are uninformed as to what the stress of the rabbi was. he loved eretz yisroel but was strongly against the govt. but taking that risky move of constantly bashing it and putting boundaries such as not going to visit the holiest sites in the world turned his community into a society that thinks that moshiach will come to williamsburgh first. And that israel is only to bathe in the dead sea for psoriasis and travel to the north to reb shimon.
It’s not only williamsburgh you can add allot more communities like a big part of borough park or other neighborhoods in Brooklyn as well as upstate kilyas joel, Montreal Canada, London England and Antwerp Belgium etc. Israel is a country that Jews are living there just like Poland, Hungary or Romania before WWII. The government of Israel makes every gentile that comes to live in Israel a Israeli citizen and calling him/her a Jew just like any other country in the world, you become a citizen of that country. The Israeli government will never destroy Arab masks or Christians churches or their neighborhood but they did do that for Jewish neighborhoods and shuls. One of many samples see gush katif. Here in the USA the government cares about real Jews more then in Israel. The Jews of williamsburgh send millions of dollars to the poor people of eretz yisroel because we are connected to the Jews of eretz yisroel. So blame the Israeli government for that so called loosing connection.
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williamsburgh jews are not loosing connection. They were never taught or given a love for eretz yisroel. I’m not talkin about a love for the govt. of israel. But merely a love (chibas eretz yisroel)for eretz hakodesh. They are uninformed as to what the stress of the rabbi was. he loved eretz yisroel but was strongly against the govt. but taking that risky move of constantly bashing it and putting boundaries such as not going to visit the holiest sites in the world turned his community into a society that thinks that moshiach will come to williamsburgh first. And that israel is only to bathe in the dead sea for psoriasis and travel to the north to reb shimon.
It’s not only williamsburgh you can add allot more communities like a big part of borough park or other neighborhoods in Brooklyn as well as upstate kilyas joel, Montreal Canada, London England and Antwerp Belgium etc. Israel is a country that Jews are living there just like Poland, Hungary or Romania before WWII. The government of Israel makes every gentile that comes to live in Israel a Israeli citizen and calling him/her a Jew just like any other country in the world, you become a citizen of that country. The Israeli government will never destroy Arab masks or Christians churches or their neighborhood but they did do that for Jewish neighborhoods and shuls. One of many samples see gush katif. Here in the USA the government cares about real Jews more then in Israel. The Jews of williamsburgh send millions of dollars to the poor people of eretz yisroel because we are connected to the Jews of eretz yisroel. So blame the Israeli government for that so called loosing connection.