gavra at work: Tssk! tssk! and this before yom kippur ! (I know you meant it sarcastically!)
As far as Rav Feldman’s letter- the facts are that Rav Feldman lived in Eretz yisroel for well over thirty years before being to be Rosh Hayeshiva in Ner Ysroel.I venture to say that his view is NOT what the yeshiva means or ever meant. Obviously, people have the kovod not to contradict him ,but his comments do NOT square with the practices of Ner Israel for the lasy sixty years. Lastly, Rabbi Lipman is a genuine musmach and he has done nothing to merit the insults of the posters. He has a point of view on learning and working and secular studies that is the NORM in the US and in many yeshivos in Israel. The chareidi world is desperate to keep its subsidies and present structure (jobs, jobs, jobs!)- a structure that is bound to fail! So, attack the messenger, a lot easier than responding to the challenges.