Lakewood, NJ – This morning, Mispallelim coming to Daven at K’hal Ateres Yeshaya, were greeted with the beautiful display of an American flag proudly hung above the main entrance to the the Shul. The Shul, under the leadership of HaRav Simcha Bunim Cohen Shlita, follows in the footsteps of Rav Cohen’s grandfather, Hagon Rav Avigdor Miller Zatzal, who also displayed a flag at his Shul on July 4th.
The Shul is located on County Line Road.
(Source: TLS)
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An Israeli site is reporting that in Satmar in Lakewood they didn’t say tachunan because of July 4?!?!?
Only good can result. We’re in Galus and shouldnt pretend we’re not.
Along the same lines, Rav Miller is quoted in the “Rabbi Miller Q&A” book as relating how Rav Yisroel Salanter was insistent on personally saying the prayer for the government. Rabbi Miller said “the least we can do is show we appreciate the great gift of America.”
Happy 235th birthday America!
HaRav HaGaon Rav Avrohom HaKohein Pam ztzvk”l, late Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah VoDaas, likewise flew the Stars and Stripes on the 4th and, I believe, all national holidays.
The fact that this is even newsworthy is sad…
Rebyid39, I know you. I asked you last time I met you what business you have taking every type of benefit/program from the government and not supporting them. You couldn’t answer me at the time but I’ll do so now for you. SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!
Was there a flag om yom haatzmaut?
If you have never read George Washington’s letter to the Jews of Newport RI, which he wrote when he was president, please go find a copy and read it. (Google “George Washington’s letter to the Jews of Newport”). Any Jew who lives in the USA and is not thankful is a fool.
proud orthodox jew
there was a bris there
I never understood why we show more hakaras hatov to the USA than to Medinas Yisoel. As I understand it, this is the reason they wave the flag at Ponovich, but why isn’t it more mainstream?
But there might not be a bris in San Francisco.
erbp, I think you moss Rebyid39’s irony. It is newsworthy because so many people on this site don’t really, mean it…and I think that was his point – if so, he agrees with you.
Too many yeshivas don’t take off for Memorial Day, a day honoring American soldiers, sailors, airmen and “Coasties”, including those who fought and liberated the Camps in Europe…too many dismiss all of the United States as representing nothing but cultural schmutz; they accuse local government and local officials of Antisemetism for something as innocuos as the Williamsburgh bike lanes…they see anti Jewishness as motivating anything and anyone that does not conform to their political agenda…the United States gets discussed in terms appropriate for Weimar Germany, or Poland.
Theologically we are in Galus…and we are “guests” here…l’meisa, we live here, we have our families here and this is a country in which we should have deep and abiding identity…almost all of us are here because of how this country opened it arms for our forbearers. Many Jews, and most of my family, have served in its military with pride.
I fly the flag 365 days a year, except in rain or snow…because I love this country, and because I feel extraordinarily fortunate to have been born here and to be an American citizen.
Good to see!!