Hello, Mr Storobin, we only want money for Yeshivas. To Albany with the whole Torah talk… We want empty promises and a good Conservative Jew who stands for everything we dislike.

Save your pandering for a community that cares. We don’t. We just want to be lied to and represented by people that don’t care about us.

Enough of your trying to reach to our community and go to shul and be more frum.

No thanks. We already have a same sex relationship with the Democrats.

Frelichen Purim!

Rabbosai, we are pushing away our brothers by presenting an all-or-nothing Yiddishkeit. Nobody is perfect. We all have weknesses.

To be frum, Yeshivish, or a Ben Torah, means one is committed to growth regardless of what level one is on. If growth and change are part of the curriculum, one is frum. If not, he could have the longest beard and payos, the longest coat, widest gartel, tallest shtreimal, longest Shmoneh Esrei, most selective kashrus, etc. and still not be frum. On the other hand one could wear a kippah serugah (sometimes), daven on Shabbos, try earnestly (to the best of ones knowledge) keep Shabbos and be frum. Amnon Yitzchok was shaving with a razor when he was already giving shiurim in Kitzur Shulchan Aruch! He hadn’t reach the section about shaving. But he was growing in his commitment, and helping others do the same.

Personally, I know a lot of Rusian Jews who are trying to do their best to become more frum. To attack them for not being fully frum yet is DESPICABLE.

With all due respect to YWN, your headline –
“Storobin Adviser Admits He’s Not Frum” was unfair.

While we always need to be dan l’kaf zchus, let’s not be blind sided nor fooled by Dimitri’s joining a frum shul – he’s not a stupid man but he IS a politician and has calculated well in advance that this move would likely score him needed brownie points in the frum circles.

Do we know when and why he changed his name?

Many more questions folks…

Yaakov Gold, YOU ROCK!!!!