Reply To: Bridging the Gap Between The Torah World and MO

Where does this “and the rest come from?” Rav Elchanan Wasserman was an EXTREME outlier. Just look at the Agudah convention of 1937 where only Rav Elchanan and Rav Ahron Kotler voted against accepting the offer of a partitioned Palestine from the British (by the way, this was before the Holocaust so it seems in hindsight that the Gerrer rebbe and the other gedolim ON THE AGUDAH MOETZES were right).
Just look at the letters between thr Chazon Ish and Rav Elchanan how the Chazon Ish accuses him of not understanding the Politics of Israel and how he should not get involved. The Chazon Ish was connected with the religious labor unions and was tangental to the political parties where people VOTED for the Knessest (before there was even a state). Rav Elchanan wasnvery agianst it but not the Chazon Ish and Rav Chaim Ozer.