So how can we compete with them?
Through their love and admiration to the Kalever Rebbe Shlita and their emunas Tzaddikim. They feel that the Rebbe has their Ruchnios at heart. He does not accept any money from them; he just requests that they take upon themselves Torah and Mitzvos.
How’s the situation now?
We can’t accomplish by ourselves, we need more kochos. It’s unfortunately a great tragedy. People that were Shomer Shabbos in France, put tefillin daily, drastically declined in just several weeks! In France they knew that a Jew who’s not Shomer Shabbos is a non-Jew, here they think that by simply living in EY one is Jewish.
The situation is exactly like with the Yemenite Jews in the fifties. The only difference is that there are no dramatic pictures of payos being cut, which would have created a massive outcry from the Jewish [religious] world. However, their mesora is being severed, and the consequences are unfortunately the same!”
So maybe you can call it a Satmar or Kalever (which it sort of is) propaganda piece, but it seems truthful to me. And AviK and others will continue to spout that it’s their choice etc… I just had to put it out there despite the difficulty and time involved, because is this the reason we needed a Jewish state? And yes to a great extent Zionism is still the yetzer hora, albeit not the only one.