While dati leumi Gedolim such as HaGaon HaRav Dov Lior Shlita and HaGaon HaRav Zalman Melamed Shlita instructed their chassidim to attend the Kiddush Hashem atzeres in Bnei Brak or Yerushalayim on Thursday, sadly, Rabbanei Tzohar, rabbonim including Rabbi Dr. Yuval Sherlow and Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein simply did not get the message, telling the secular media that they condemn the racism in the chareidi community. While there are legitimate difference of opinion and hashkofa, they missed the opportunity to side with the Torah way of life, preferring to identify with the secular media and anti-Torah Supreme Court, simply missing a very unique and important opportunity.
Speaking with Israel Radio on Thursday, Rabbi Yuval Sherlow, who is rosh yeshiva of the Petach Tikvah Hesder Yeshiva, boasted how the dati leumi community welcomed new immigrants from Ethiopia with open arms, and how the dati leumi community is not racist or discriminatory, using his air time to condemn rather than to unite, siding with the ‘chilonim’ against Gedolei Yisrael Shlita.
To his credit however, Rav Sherlow condemned the High Court’s decree, sending parents to prison for educating their children as they see fit, telling the media the court and the state have no place whatsoever seeking to compel its values on any parent, and parents have the right to educate their children as they see fit. (Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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‘no one is as blind… as he who will not see’… according to my sources … (from a yeshiva in Israel) …. this might be an economic issue as well as a halachic one… the shas party and the rabbanut is responsible for tens of thousands of jobs and income to Jews within their ‘version’ of kashrus …they specifically buy produce from Jewish owned farms in Israel that don’t practice teruma and maaser .. and rather than require that these farms strictly adhere to halacha … among other things… the kitchens of their girls schools continue to supply treif to these unsuspecting .. and blameless … girls … the rabbanut has made no attempt to get their supplier’s to carefully conform to halacha … and this authoritative kashrut organization does not even observe this wonderful (teruma and maaser) mitzvah … specific to Israel … if they can distract the kashrut and halachic issues (this is just one of them … others include tznius).. they don’t have to answer why their standards are so sloppy and why they continue to impose their absolute disregard for mitzvot on their innocent victims … in this case, the innocent girls and families in the Sephardic girls school in Emmanuel…