In a new Yahadut Hatorah election video, the target audience is English-speaking chareidim, immigrants and English-speakers, sending a clear message, that Yahadut Hatorah is here “to help you, your family and to feel comfortable in Eretz Yisrael”.
As with any party ahead of elections, there are fears. In this election, one of the chareidi party’s fears is that Likud is making a move, working to attract chareidi voters too, amid an awareness there are many who identify themselves as chareidi, but are not in a beis medrash and do not necessarily ask rabbonim which party to vote for.
This time around, the chareidi party is investing time and effort to reach out to the large English-speaking chareidi tzibur, with former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus playing a major role, as he is a fluent English speaker.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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ha, ha soooo, they need our votes & remember all about us for the next week and a half until elections & then bye, bye. Right, sure. I’ll dafka not vote for them. Fakes
Not necessarily ask rabonim who to vote for??????
GEVALT!!!!!!!
gg: as opposed to all the others — who are genuine, and not fakes.
So, is opposing the new Bnos Yerushalayim school in the Ramot section of Yerushalayim, helping the English speaking Charedi community? Chareidi leaders may not approve of it due to the school teaching basic levels of math and other subjects but that is what most English speaking residents want for their girls. Just as Joe Biden is living in a different era where societal mores were different, so the leaders of the Charedi parties are also living in a bygone age. Charedi English speaking parents now want basic+ secular education so that their children can function in the changing society they live in. The increasing numbers of Charedim active in all sectors of the economy show that the olden days are just that, olden days. It is now quite possible to awaken in Yerushalayim to learn before davening, daven with a bren, make a kiddush Hashem with your co-workers by only eating your glat kosher home-prepared lunch, go home to help your children with their homework, eat supper with the family and them go out to learn. And yes, as it is Sunday, you may even have Skyped the kids and einikelach in mid-America, or searched the Internet to help an Israeli Charedi neighbor with a medical issue, AND still be an emesdik Charedi. The neighbor, of course, would never use the cursed Internet but will happily let you be his chessed “shaliach”. Today there is a new class of “goy” familiar to English, and French and Spanish, speakers, the “Internet Goy”. He can only be asked for help during the weekdays. On Shabbos, we need to revert to the old fashioned Shabbos Goy for help. If you need one of those, ask any Yerushalmi, he will know exactly where to find one, just as during the week he will know where to find an Internet Goy to help him register for an appointment in the US Embassy to apply for a visa to go to the Goldene Medina for “Hachnossas Kallo”.
Hmm, Jerusalem Observer really has hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately many of the Israeli Haredi community, but by no means all, are really quite hypocritical. One proof of that is is the flood of charity appeals recently for Chassidish Courts and Litvish/Yeshivish circles. The Internet is ossur but I have had endless Internet-based appeals for help to support this or that cause. Only today I received an email asking me to support a mossad that I have zero connection with. The person who sent me the email has a child there, and as he explained, “they pressured me to send the appeal to everyone whose email address I have”. How do you donate, click on the link. The same mossad requires parents to sign that they have no Internet access when sending a child to their educational institutions. Isn’t that simple hypocrisy? Israeli Charedim look down on “Americans”, that is everyone who speaks English, unless they want something. Unfortunately, gg is right. The good MKs from Gimmel and their Rabbonim and Rebbes will make sweet sounds for the next few weeks then forget about the English speakers because many of us are simply fundamentally different in outlook from them. We come from strong heimish communities in America, England or elsewhere, where the idea of actually working is not verboten and where we understand that having to make an extra effort for your Yiddishkeit, i.e. working hard and learning hard, actually strengthens you. Deep down many frum foreigners wonder from time to time what they are really achieving in Israel, aside of course from the great chessed of helping schnorrers with their [Internet] US visa applications, and that is before being asked for a list of friends and relatives the schnorrer can approach. Sounds familiar?
especially after the election in beit Shemesh Gimmel is waking up and paying attention to North Americans
Heschel & JO are from the bygone age
Jerusalem observer,
What you stated is similar to what to Shimon Peres once admonished American religious olim
What you stated would be wonderful, commendable, And a step up for most of the world
For ירושלים Who can say if it’s not a Step or more down
to hershel and gg and jerusalem observer
while you may be right and have a point I have a question for you. who “are” you gonna vote for ? is there a different party that you trust? is there a different party that will at least claim to uphold your values and beliefs? At the end of the day, when you need help with a visa, reshut mas, doctor, building issue etc etc etc will you call Naftali Bennet’s office or Uri Maklev? will you call Chaim Amsalem or Yitzchok Pindrus? Ask the people who have had issues dealt with and tell me who was the most helpful? Did you ever call Eichler’s office and get told that you wear a blue shirt so they won’t help you?
come on !!!!!
YAHADUT HATORAH