PAA: Kasher was a notorious forger. He forged a letter from Gedolim stating that the Zionist State is the ischalta d’geulah, afra lepumei. This fabrication of Kasher’s has been in Zionist literature for years until we found out that Kasher faked the whole thing, and now it’s documented and he’s exposed as a forger and a fake. He also doctored the story of the meeting of the Moetzes Chachmei HaTorah in 1937 where he left out the position of people like Rav Ahron Kotler. It should be noted that Kasher, in his attempted defense of religious Zionism, Hatkuha Hagedolah”, forged and doctored the article in Hapardes – yes, he did not merely misquote it, he actually blatantly and unashamedly doctored it, presenting his forgery as “proof” to his anti-Torah position, to give the impression that the only rabbonim against the State were those from Hungary and Czechoslovakia. He conveniently deleted the names of
Rav Elchonon Wasserman, Rav Ahron Kotler and Rav Rottenberg. He wrote a book called HaTekufah heGedolah which is absolutely full of misquotes, fabrications and distortions. He also deleted the sentence that those voting against – held this view under ALL CIRCUMSTANCES – even if such a medina was built upon ‘yesodos hadass’, because, this it would be “Kefirah b’emunas bias hamoshiach…” and especially one built “…al yesodos hakefirah, venimtza shem shomayim mischalell.”
His deception has already been exposed and well known to those who have researched this topic. R. Zvi Weinman documented extensively the forgeries of R. Kasher – and he even challenged him in public to respond to his findings when R. Kasher was alive – in his excellent work “Mikatowitz ad 5 B’Iyar.” Of course, Kasher did not produce any response to the evidence against him. More of R. Kasher’s falsificaitons are exposed in the sefer “Das HaTziyonus”, expecially his now famous fraud regarding the position of Rav Meir Simcha od Dvinsk. So this R. Kasher, who the Brisker Rav referred to as “the biggest treifah” (a play on his name, which he spelled the same as the word “kosher”), reprinted the unverified Kol Hator, and then he stretched the statements that are found there, that we don’t even know really come from the GRA, reading into them things that even they don’t say. Kasher wasn’t always a Zionist. That’s a later development. It’s funny, in fact – if you want to track Kasher’s Zionistic tendencies you can check the old printings of Torah Sheleimah, where he spelled his name the old Yiddish way – Menachem Mendel Kasher – Kuf alef shin ayin raish. Then slowly he changed both the spelling (to the modern chof shin reish) and the name (to plain “Menachem”.)