> big rally for Soviet Jewry ended with Yeshiva bochurim & Bais Yaakov Maidlach mixed dancing
And it ended up with a million Yidden getting their freedom. Some gedolim didn’t approve these activities lehathila not because mixed dancing but because they were afraid of soviet response both towards the activists and increasing regressions inside ussr. At the same time, a friend of mine asked a Sheila in Baltimore whether open action is OK v. traditional shtadlanus and the answer was: we don’t have a preference for specific way of politics. If quiet ways worked in olden times, and demonstrations work in our times , we do what works.