He wrote that (not quoted)’it was easier to bring Reform & Conservative thinking jews closer to true, authentic Yiddishkeit than non-affliated Jews who have no INTEREST or LOVE for Talmudic/Torah learning’.

It is about time that we all stop imposing our thoughts/ideas/assumptions/and stereotypes of what the GOALS of everyone else is. At times, it is difficult to ascertain what are our own personal goals or neigeos are!!!

#2 – Dr. Calderon’s speech and explanation of the passage in the gemara was positive and appropriate to the occasion. Decades of Chareidi participation in politics in Israel didn’t get Torah learning to the podium of the Knesset. Decades of Chareidi – and NRP- participation didn’t get secular MK’s to sit down in their workplace and be koveah itim laTorah. These people who you so smugly dismiss did.

Instead of ridiculing them, ask the obvious questions about why this was never fostered before, and what the implications are for why such feelings as exist now pressuring Chareidim have come to pass.