Reply To: A kol koreh for this, but not for that?

WIY – there have been several instances in multiple cities of chareidim attacking chareidi soldiers, exactly as you described. And yet not only has there been no Kol Koreh, there has been little public criticism of these actions at all by manhigim (There has been some, but not much).

And yes, I have an axe to grind. When I was a teenager, gedolim and manhigim like R’ Moshe ztl and R’ Yaakov ztl and R” Soloveitchik, ztl, and Rebbes like the Lubavitcher ztl and the Bobover ztl and others were attuned to the needs of all of am yisroel, were compassionate, logical, and were meikilim when the capabilities of the tzibur and the circumstances warranted. They saw the goodness in their fellow Jews who weren’t frum, they valued every Jewish soul and they didn’t spend their time looking over their right shoulder to see who would criticize them for not being strict enough.

Those strengths are not evident enough these days. There is a vacuum of leadership that needs to be fixed, or those not exercising leadership will become increasingly irrelevant.