Comments on: VIDEO & PHOTOS: Yerushalayim – Bnei Brak: Over 300,000 MeKadesh Shem Shomayim

By: mw13

mw13 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:22:48 +0000

#21 – “Maybe from a Torah perspective its really okay to discriminate against Sephardim.”
Why on earth would you think that?!

By: Washington

Washington — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:49:17 +0000

Why is everybody so defensive about being accused of discrimination against Sephardim? Is it because America told you it’s assur to discriminate against blacks? America is not the law. Maybe from a Torah perspective its really okay to discriminate against Sephardim. And maybe this rally is a Kiddush Hashem because we can teach the world that discrimination is not such a bad word and sometimes its necessary.

By: YITZCHOKY

YITZCHOKY — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:00:32 +0000

I have four sons in Eretz Yisrael 2 learning and 2 working; all were at demonstation yesterday, 2 in Bnei Brak and 2 in Yerusalem. They took time from their work with their bosses permission to attent. Remember also yesterday was quite hot especially in the son. Result of yesterday a great Kiddush Hashem. It also proved my point that the burning ot rubbish bins are many kids who are looking for excitement. Yesterday when the frum spoke the medina listen. The supreme court does not reign supreme with the frum Yidden and espeically with Hashem
A GUT SHABBOS TO ALL YIDDEN RELIGIOUS OR NOT

By: cccr

cccr — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:38:37 +0000

First of all, ladies were there, too.

Also, they counted both gatherings-Bnai Brak and Yerushalyim. The police estimate for the Yerushalayim one was over 160,000, and very possibly underestimated.

My son, who was there for part of it said there were so many people, no matter how far you tried to look, there were still more… it was endless and a Kiddush Hashem.

(PS-We don’t measure Kiddush Hashem by what the radio broadcasters say. Rather it is measured by how Klal Yisroel adheres to the Ratzon Hashem. In this case, 2-300,000 followed the call of the Gedolim and showed up. That is Kiddush Hashem.)

By: crazykanoiy

crazykanoiy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:20:46 +0000

Once we are at it. It is not only sephardim that suffer from discrimination. What about all the children of American parents that cant get into chadarim and bais yackov because their parents are Amerikai!

By: squeak

squeak — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:18:15 +0000

The pictures look like they are of the “million man” march

By: hereorthere

hereorthere — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:03:31 +0000

Now I see that you said virtually the entire MALE cheredi population, but again I see no reason why there could not be 300,000 males of the cheredim who either left studying because either their rabbonim told them to (or at least gave permission)and why the males who are too old or working or too young (how young is too young anyway?) could not be from the other 400,000 in the population.

And who says no women attended in separate groups separate from the men, anyway?

By: mw13

mw13 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:59:07 +0000

#1 – I have heard reliable reports that many of the Roshei Yeshivos canceled second seder that day, and had all the (non-Israeli) bachurim go to the rallies. As for the chaeridim who work, perhaps they took a vacation day? What ever happened to being dan likaf zchus? Does that not apply to chaeridi newspapers?

#6 – The Gedolim obviously disagree.

#8 – “And by the way, what would you say if it would be the oppisite, with 10 Modern Orthodox children being forced to join a Satmar school, would you liberals still be saying the same?” Great point, well put.
“you liberals are just bigots who cannot stand the ultra-orthodox!” Why do you assume the worst about your fellow jews? Perhaps some of them have been taught certain negative stereotypes about chareidim, but that certainly doesn’t mean they all “cannot stand the ultra-orthodox”.

#12 – Let me get this straight – since there are unfortunately “frum” jews who do not follow the rulings of Beis Din, you think we should stop turning to our Rabbonim to tell us what to do, and instead turn to the liberal, anti-religious Israeli courts?!

By: hereorthere

hereorthere — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:58:54 +0000

#1 Daniel Breslauer;
You talk about gross exaggerations while making at least one, yourself.

If the entire Cheredi population is around 700,000 as you yoruself said then 300,000 attending the event is nowhere near “virtually the entire male chareidi population ” as you wrongly claimed.

In fact, 300,000 is less then half.
It also says in the article that G’doli Torah were telling their students to participate, so those you would dismiss from the population of those participating, because they are studying, is also wrong.

As for those who are working or too old or young, IO see no reason why that part of the cheredi population must be so much more then 400,000 that the other 300,000 could not have possibly, been there.

I think it is entirely possible that 300,000 (again, much less then half the cheredi population) could have been there.

By: doneel

doneel — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:50:40 +0000

I can’t understand the comments of the posters here. There was no discrimination. The school had two tracks, one for religious and one for non-religious (mixed dancing, treif food, etc). There were plenty of Sephardim in both tracks, Ashkenazim too. Most parents were happy with this. Any parents who wanted their kids in the religious tracks needed to agree to adhere to certain standards. The court even agreed to keep the tracks, and have a committee decide which track each girl would fit in. Only lalum did not accept this.