Comments on: Slonimer Rebbe Shlita Benching the Girls! (UPDATED 20:43 IL – 2:43PM EST)

By: shimen

shimen — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:54:45 +0000

#70 beshas gezirus hamalchis ‘afil’ if they tell you to tie your shoelaces like gentiles yeharak val yavor’. seems like most posters are not bnei torah and dont know some yedoos hadas etc

By: Aaron Chaim

Aaron Chaim — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:37:02 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/10345302.stm

By: Aaron Chaim

Aaron Chaim — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:36:26 +0000

How ironic it is that on the day after this tragic story, the UK government announced plans for “free” schools.
“Free schools will be independent but funded by central government. Groups will have to set out demand from parents, the school’s aims, curriculum, teaching methods and possible sites.”
Let the Slonimer parents come the UK where their plans would be encouraged, and not struck down!

By: Washington

Washington — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:24:30 +0000

Obviously Justice Levy took advantage of a situation and went to town with it. Of course the jailing of parents is a travesty. But this Levy knows very well that in general ourside of Emmanuel there is severe discrimination against Sephardim in the ultra-orthodox enclaves. So he has a gas pedal to step on and he is stepping hard. Being that all the Gedolim are protesting, obviously the government is wrong. But behooves all Ashkenazim in E”Y to stop any non-halachic discrimination against Sepharadim. Each case of possible discrimination should be authorized by the Gedolim and should not be taken for granted. This way the government wouldn’t have an excuse to pull off this type of thing with impunity. Levy knows the Ashkenaz – Sephardic discrimination issue is an issue he can roll with. Why do we continue feeding our enemies?

By: Fearless Lion

Fearless Lion — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:17:15 +0000

#64, And if the Court would order you to work on Shabbos, would you listen to them? Or to deny the existence of G-d? Please learn Neviim, where all jews were punished because they followed their KING! Obviously the Torah is telling us, don’t follow the leaders when it’s against Torah. The greatest anarchy is when the leaders go against the Torah, and the poulation follows them!

By: RBSdude

RBSdude — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:31:09 +0000

The two issues here are
1) The absolute intolerance of the Haredi community in israel to accept anything different than them – to the extent that there was a wall built in the school to separate different children in grade school !
2) The aforementioned act was taking place in a school which was receiving state funding

By: Softwords

Softwords — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:08:42 +0000

also, it should have read “…the bgatz’s DECISION…”, not “discussion”.

Sorry, it’s very late at night. My apologies.

By: Softwords

Softwords — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:05:11 +0000

SORRY, TYPO IN MY COMMENT #64

Instead of reading, “Perhaps they having been wasting time reading leftist papers…” it should say, “Perhaps they HAVEN’T been wasting time reading leftist papers…”

By: Softwords

Softwords — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:53:38 +0000

#58 Pashuteh Yid – 1) You are falling prey to something called “projection” (See 11th definition on Dictionary.com). Unless you where a Talmid Muvhak of Rav. Levin, z”l, you can not honestly state what he would do today if he were alive. You are only talking from the way you perceive him through the stories you read about him and are projecting your own feelings on to him. Such views are in essence worthless.
2) If it’s true that HaGaon HaRav Zalman Baruch Melamed and HaRav Michel Braun (who are both in the Dati Leumi and Hesder camps) are in support of this atzeres against the Bgatz, doesn’t that trouble you? Aren’t their support of this atzeres a direct challenge to your point of view, being that they are basically agreeing that the Gov should stay out of our internal affairs? Are they in support of discrimination too and in hating the government? Or perhaps they understand the situation a lot better than you do? Perhaps they having been wasting time reading leftist papers that have really distorted the story over here and have actual checked into the matter first hand and have concluded that the bgatz’s discussion is dangerous for the Dati Leumi as well.

Perhaps you need to reexamine this story and your opinion on it. Best of luck.

By: webster

webster — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:36:49 +0000

Is this supposed to be YESHIVA World News??
How do you allow such drivel to be posted? I”m referring specifically to #58.Many of views espoused by him and by other people posting are outright kefirah.It”s very convenient for one to take as his Rav someone who is not alive for a long time.Can you say with absolute certainty what R’Aryeh would say today? And just by the way R’Elyashav is R’Aryeh’s son-in-law. I think that he should know better what his late father-in-law’s views were than someone who just knows him from a book.