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so, those (8 or all 13) moetses members who said that rally will be useful are not gedolim?

There is a singer in a black kippah singing shir hamaalot, are you guys happy now

you can rest your case because ywn front page seemingly closed that article for comments and deleted the ones that were there.

So, maybe you can help me clarify:
1) how many members are in moetzes?

2) as this was posted this morning when buses were on the way – did anyone see buses with lakewood registration turning around after receiving a lakewood alert?

3) can moetzes organize their own demonstration with 100,000 people in DC – let’s have a siyum of half-shas?

> The march on Washington during WW II was by Rabbis and was for a very different purpose. This rally is sponsored by secular organizations

Exactly, during WW2, those non-observant Jews were afraid to show up and even counseled FDR to disregard the march. Can you imagine how those Rabonim felt being abandoned by fellow Jews in trying to save Jewish lives. Now, those other Jews finally showed up and we are now nitpicking on the speaker lineup.

To the question why the rally is needed
First, see the announcement from the collective daas Torah: they say it is beneficial. To the point: public opinion is one if the fronts of this war, not different from tunnels or sea or cyber. Public opinion in the west and in Arab countries will determine how much pressure will be on tzahal to avoid certain actions; whether other groups or countries will join. Etc. And each one battle may not be decisive but they are part of the whole.

ProBiden articles before 2020 election addressed unease of an Obama vp: the claim was that Biden was the mature member of the team. While others viewed Israel as the occupier, Biden allegedly remembered 1973 and understood that Israel feels vulnerable.

Don’t worry. People are either not bragging about their kabolos not to lose zechyuos, or took a kabola not to post, or are on the bus to DC with a bad connection

Learnt, indeed. Just see how middle east treats other minorities: nothing, yazidis, kurds,. Sunnis v shias …iraq/ Iran war, syria…
.. I don’t think this is all zionist fault. So, without zionists, Sephardim would have gotten similar treatment by now.

If mods would be willing to share with me rejected posts (under an NDA), I can see if we can train an ai moderator for some obvious abuses.

To show chesed to the moderator, I’ll take upon myself , bli never, to write posts that do not require moderator to edit anything till the end of the month, or at least I’ll put controversial ideas in invisible ink, white on white, for example,

Hope you agree.

That would be super helpful, thanks. You do realize what it entails, tho, right?

> 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.

I am confused that people who usually follow aguda are now looking for tirutzim and yehidim who disagree. True aguda doesn’t call for everyone personally to go, just to increase numbers. So if you are not comfortable going, you can maybe sponsor free bus seats, encourage your students to go, substitute for a teacher or a doctor who are going, drive students to the bus meeting place…

During ww2 there was a March of rabbonim on Washington before Yom Kippur and more Americans americanized jews were uncomfortable with getting entangled. The more things changed, the more they are the same

Shlomo,
either you are seeing extra billions of muslims under your bed or you are not consider most of the Jews Jews … That’s OK. Many French college students think that there are more Jews in France than Muslims – so visible we are.

akuperma > movements towards intermarriage and people going OTD in large numbers began about 250 years ago.

this is true for Western Europe and US (Mr. Harris). For most of Eastern Europe and Russian Empire (Reb Zelinsky), intermarriage started in 1920s. Before that, Jews lived behind the “pale” and even those who were professionals and allowed to live in big towns, still married Jews. Even in Germany late 19th century, Jews that baptized would typically marry people with similar yichus.

akuperma > . Eretz Yisrael is a front in a war that includes Ukraine, and threatens to expand to all of Eastern Europe, Taiwan, the Philippines and Korea.

I agree. I don’t think many people disagree, despite Chinese/Russian propaganda trying to exploit all friction points.

One unfortunate thing is that Israel waited until being attacked to take the stand … whatever their realpolitik considerations were ..

can they open an account with one of the Israeli branches in US before going? Or use an American bank with a branch in Israel and credit cards as described above?

How was Avraham able to defend reshoyim of some? R Moshe says that he was interested in truth and ficing the wrings, and not focused on destroying the evildoers. I am not at the level to apply this to those who are trying to destroy us, but at least we need to apply this to each other.

Fanatic, I think that people tend to focus on someone who they often disagree with, and these are often their neighbors with whom they disagree on a particular point. We see it in Israel, among different Jewish groups in US, in politics… maybe this is what sinas hinam is about.

So, when someone focuses on the enemy, then enemy of my enemy is my friend… avoid falling into this psychological trap, don’t be a fanatic.

I think OH has vouchers, so that should have positive impact on school cost and, hopefully, quality.

While I agree with all caveats ^, we should value all the tools we have. Studious students were at risk of not having children as they could not go to the bathroom and miss part of the class. Chofetz Chaim write that we should thank Hashem for all conveniences, such as inventing trains that made travel fast & comfortable, kal vehomer tools that help learn Torah, from book printing to online search to YWN.

This does sound like a good shidduch. It is not late for him to start learning and for her to get off social media. Let her use CR instead. Show them this thread.

look for a Yid who sold them the bridge location

R Salanter used to say that when someone is not paying attention while learning in Lita, it leads to a professor in Paris going OTD. So, it makes sense to look at quality of learning.

First, a simple question of measuring that quality. It was always an issue. During BM2, first attempt at public education was for fathers to teach and that did not have consistent quality (2nd to go to Yerushalaim had logistics problems), 3rd – to teach teenagers in regional centers did not work because teenagers did not listen [quality of teachers, I presume, as it was not an issue in Yerushalaim], what worked – teaching small kids locally, maybe not high quality but giving them information before they are capable of rebelling.

Som with early yeshivos – I presume Netziv was able to know and lead his 400 students. But in our days, with so many yeshivos, the standards are uneven and are known word-of-mouth among locals. We here inCR are sometimes shocked that some of us are bakiim in certain things and have
no idea of others. We need some sort of TSAT, Torah SAT with scores in different areas. It is OK to have 800 on tosfos, but 0 on chassidus. This score will accurately describe the student and the school, and then we can start thinking on what can be improved. The fact that we do not have such measurements tells something about the state of learning.