11 Responses

1. There is a student vacancy spot at Aish Hatorah. Lippman can go there. They are always looking to make baalei teshuva regardless of the evils of ones past.

2. finally some good news, lipman is OUT !!!
   and PLZ, don’t call him chareidi

3. Please don’t call lipman charedi, he has nothing in common with a charedim.

4. what do you think lipman will do with his free time now?

5. Well deserved for Lipman.

   The American nerd that caused more damage than Lapid.

   Interesting that you categorize him as “Chareidi”.

   Loser, would have been an appropriate title.

6. Poor Dovy. Hey look, he can always get a job with PETA.

7. These people accomplished nothing other than increasing hatred between Jews. How sad that there are so many who will vote for them again

8. I do not think “American chareidi MK Dov Lipman ” is correct. I do not think he should be titled as either a Rabbi or Charedi! based on his actions.

9. “American chareidi MK Dov Lipman”
   He may look chareidi but he sure didn’t act like one.
   He is also no longer an American as he renounced his American citizenship in order to become a MK.
   Former-American, former-chareidi, soon-to-be-former MK Dov Lipman.

10. This bad evil Lipman was even denounced by his own yeshiva in Baltimore Ner Yisrael the rosh hayeshiva put out a whole letter against him he is a bad and evil person who happens to dress like a charadi

11. Who do any of us think we are giving ourselves labels Chasid or Charedi? Do we walk around calling ourselves Anuv or Tzadik?

    And then there are labels such as Orthodox which are due to Reform/Conservative. Conservative is called that because they are the right of Reform. Effectively, they are the self-labeled middle of the road. So, Shomer Torah U’mitzvos becomes “Orthodox”, already an extreme label. Then Orthodoxy is taken over by a modern element, so there becomes Ultra-Orthodox. So, someone who is trying to be an authentic shomer Torah U’Mitzvos, is now labeled Ultra-Orthodox (as if he were a jihadist) instead of the “real” center-of-the-road true Jew that attempts to be an Eved Hashem.

    I was a shul rabbi of shuls that were members of NCYI and/or the OU. And yet, I refused to identify myself as Orthodox. Both because it unnecessarily alienates “non-Orthodox” and because it conversely justifies their lack of Shemiras Mitzvos (since after all they are “not Orthodox”). I am a Jew – A Neshoma in the physical embodiment of a Guf. That’s it. Who needs to be more?

    Dov Lipman seems to sincerely believe what he is doing and is trying to emulate what he believes that his Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, zt”l, would do. The problem is that Rav Weinberg, zt”l, would likely agree with Rav Feldman, yl”t, that Eretz Yisroel is different. Since Rav Weinberg is no longer with us, I would hope that Dov has a Rebbe who he consults with about these serious issues. If he consults with a Rebbe who is qualified regarding these areas, then he is beyond reproach. If not (and have not heard him publically say that he did), the situation is very grave, because he is taking public positions that are not aligned with “mainstream” Gedolim (unless, of course, he feels that he is a Bar Hachi, to argue).

    Regardless, likely none of us are in a position to criticize him since we are not Barei Hachi either.

    If only, more of us spent more time attempting to better our own Avodas Hashem, instead of saying that arbitrary labels do or don’t apply to others.