#16 – “Sammyboy, Rav Ovadia never said that”
He most certainly has, as I’ve pointed out to you time and time again. Just because something inconveniences you doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
“most of the mothers were Yiddishe mamas ashkenaziot, maybe one was a sefardic one converted to the ashkenazi way of life.”
I find it incredible that somebody can say “maybe one was a sefardic”, clearly showing that you do not have any concrete figures, and still blast another commentor saying “from were you get your info??… so get you “facts” straigth before posting” in the very same post. Do you realize how contradictory that is?

#20 – “Rav Yakov Yosef is a very respected posek… he knows the halocho and nonetheless felt that in this case it was permitted to go the secular court.”
I have never seen anywhere that Rav Yaakov Yosef allowed Lalum to go to the High Court, I would appreciate if you could bring me a source for that.
“If a Rov holds a position as a דעת יחיד does that he mean he is a מורד ברבנות for failing to accept the opinion of the majority ? This idea that there can be no dissenting view and that every one including a Rav who is major posek has to submit and be מבטל themselves to the p’sak of the Godol Ha’Dor or other Gedolim is a made up Charadi fantasy.”
Actually, in the times of the Sanhedrin if the Sanhedrin paskened one way al pi rov, and one of the dissenting poskim would pasken not like the rabbim halacha li’maseh, he was warned to stop, and if he kept at it he was executed. Now obviously today we have no Sanhedrin, and we cannot know who is right and who is wrong, but this concept is certainly no “Charadi fantasy”

#21 – Wow. You’ve outdone yourself.
“I’m really very surprised YWN allows so much sinat chinam from samshark, his posting are full of arrogance and ‎disrespect for his fellow Jew, unfortunately jews like him were the ones that destroyed the beit haMikdash.‎”
Because saying that “his posting are full of arrogance and ‎disrespect for his fellow Jew, unfortunately jews like him were the ones that destroyed the beit haMikdash” isn’t sinas chinom at all, right? The hypocrisy of this comment is truly staggering.

It’s a very clear issur to bring cases to the secular courts davka in Israel without prior consent of beis din where the Gedolei Yisroel have already paskened a clor issur.

The “so what” is a lack of kovod haTorah and morid haRabbanus. Do you not see the problem with a son going against his father’s psak and not seeking his counsel?

I guess from your logic you could hold by what the reformers say, because according to you, “what difference does it make if a different Rov disagrees, even if he is bigger?”

This has been covered elsewhere. What I read was

* Sefardim are more than 50% of the population. I don’t know if this is accurate in light of the Russian aliyah, though

* there have been 4 Sefardi justices in the 60 year history of the medina. At present, of 14 “justices”, one is Sefardi.

* Tel Aviv University, as an example, has 93% Ashkenazi professors.

Make no mistake, there is or was much anti-Sefardi discrimination in Israel. But it has always been from the Tzionim, not from the Jews.

This is easy to understand, because the Tzionim came from Russia and Europe and the Sefardim came from Arabic speaking lands. Since the Tzionim didn’t identify with Yiddishkeit, they viewed the Sefardim as non-Jews, chas v’sholom. And they persecuted them bitterly in the early days including frying out many religious Sefardim and Teimanim. Of course this was as much Jew-hatred as it was discrimination against the Sefardim, but even today many people don’t understand that the fine points of what happened and are just angry and bitter about the dynamics without understanding them.