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Sephardic Chief Rabbi Hagaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef sharply criticized several Religious Zionist Roshei Yeshiva who attacked his recent remarks on the issue of drafting yeshiva Bochrim.
“There are some of them that if they would come to join a minyan, we would not count them,” Rav Yosef said. “They are considered apikorsim.”
The Chief Rabbi also singled out Rabbi Tamir Granot, a Rosh Yeshiva at a Hesder Yeshiva who has publicly called for drafting Chareidim.
“There is one ‘rabbi’ — I don’t even know if he’s a rabbi — a Rosh Yeshiva of a Hesder Yeshiva, who goes on television to speak against us,” Rav Yosef said. “Does he not fear the sin of degrading talmidei chachamim?”
He added, “Anyone who calls for drafting those who learn Torah is an apikores. We would not include him in a minyan.”
ujmParticipantujmParticipantujmParticipantOctober 26, 2025 7:33 pm at 7:33 pm in reply to: Out of Town – Chassidish community options? #2463198ujmParticipantIn order to have a Chasidish community, the community needs to have a Rebbe in town.
Otherwise it’s just a community that dresses Chasidish.
ujmParticipantLike Nancy Reagan used to say, just say NO.
ujmParticipantThere is NO ranked-choice voting in NYC general elections. The ranked-choice voting is ONLY for NYC primary elections.
There will be no ranked-choice voting in this election for mayor.
ujmParticipantujmParticipantHarav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin shlit”a decried the ongoing persecution of bnei Torah in Eretz Yisroel, comparing the situation to the dark days of Soviet oppression.
“I came to America to do a job that isn’t easy — to take care of bochurim,” Rav Sorotzkin said. “We have 13,500 talmidim across our mosdos, and every one of them is precious. When I heard this morning that they arrested a choshuve bochur in the yeshiva — an emesdike masmid, whose only ‘crime’ was sitting and learning Torah — I was shaken. We heard such stories from our fathers and grandfathers in Russia, when people were arrested for learning. Now it’s happening again, in Eretz Yisroel.”
The bochur, named Ariel Shammai, was sentenced to 20 days in military prison. “He was handed a 20-day prison sentence for one thing,” Rav Sorotzkin said sharply. “For being an oved Hashem and learning Torah.”
Following the arrest, a massive atzeres tefillah was held outside the prison Wednesday afternoon. Over 1,200 bnei Torah gathered to show support and solidarity with the imprisoned talmid. The gathering doubled as a psichas zman for the yeshiva, led by Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit”a.
“It was a big maamad of kiddush sheim shamayim in a mechubadike way,” said Rav Sorotzkin. “We began Chezkas Habatim there. It gave the bochur chizuk — he saw that Klal Yisroel is with him.”
ujmParticipantujmParticipantujmParticipantOctober 22, 2025 9:44 am at 9:44 am in reply to: Plan B – An Open Letter to Ultra Orthodox Community Leaders #2461685ujmParticipantPlan C – A Response to the Open Letter from the Ultra Orthodox Community Leaders:
What if G- D Forbid Golus State of Israel ends like 100% of the other goluses??? The Zionist State is in Golus, too. In fact, everywhere on earth today is in Golus?
Did you hear of something called October 7? That occurred in Golus State of Israel.
Since the existence of the State is Israel, more Jews have been killed for being Jews in the State of Israel than the entire rest of the world combined.
Teretz? Only DAVENING helps. Nothing else.
Sincerely,
The Ultra Orthodox Community Leaders
ujmParticipantThe Mishpacha in Israel and in America are owned by the same person. And they both share articles (translated).
Rav Elyashiv never signed anything he didn’t mean to.
October 22, 2025 9:44 am at 9:44 am in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2461680ujmParticipantYankel & Yaakov: In 1970, the NK held a public protest alongside the PLO outside the United Nations.
And this was the NK that the Steipler issued extremely high praise, referring to the Neteurei Karta as his friends and colleagues and wishing them long lives and good days; and saying that he loves every single one of them. The Steipler says their zealotry is praiseworthy and l’sheim shamayim and he wants them to keep doing what they do.
October 19, 2025 9:15 am at 9:15 am in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2460419ujmParticipantYankel: How familiar are you regarding the activities of Rav Amrom Blau ztvk”l and the Neteurei Karta during his lifetime and during the lifetime of the Steipler Gaon?
They were considered very engaged in קנאות, as the Steipler writes and highly praises the Neteurei Karta for. Rav Blau and many others in NK were jailed many times by the Zionist state regime authorities in the Holy Land (during the Steipler’s lifetime.) Under Rav Balu (which was during the Steipler’s lifetime and which the Steipler is praising), the NK protested the existence of the State of “Israel”, Rav Blau praised the torching of a pritzus shop in Tel Aviv in 1972, the NK burned the Israeli flag in public in 1968 (not long after the ’67 war), they held many vigils and large street demonstrations and roadblocks that often resulted in physical clashes with Israeli police. Rav Balu and many other NK persons were arrested many times and were sentenced to quite a bit of time in Israeli prison. After the ’67 war they cultivated relationships with the PLO. In 1970, the NK held a public protest alongside the PLO outside the United Nations. The NK addressed the U.N. on the issue of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and strongly advocated their anti-Zionist stance. You can find documents even today on the UN website referring to the Neteurei Karta and the Neteurei Karta’s advocacy that Jerusalem become an international city not under Israeli sovereignty, among other anti-Zionists stances the NK advocated to the UN.
And the Steipler Gaon, after seeing all of the above, referred to the Neteurei Karta as his friends and colleagues, wished them long lives and good days; and said that he loves every single one of them. The Steipler says their zealotry is praiseworthy and l’sheim shamayim and he wouldn’t want them to stop doing what they do, as what the Neturei Karta does is necessary and beneficial for the preservation of Torah and Yiddishkeit.
October 19, 2025 9:14 am at 9:14 am in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2460418ujmParticipantRav Blau and many other NK persons were arrested many times and were sentenced to quite a bit of time in Israeli prison. After the ’67 war they cultivated relationships with the PLO. In 1970, the NK held a public protest alongside the PLO outside the United Nations.
October 19, 2025 9:14 am at 9:14 am in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2460417ujmParticipantUnder Rav Blau (which was during the Steipler’s lifetime and which the Steipler is praising), the NK protested the existence of the State of “Israel”,
October 19, 2025 9:14 am at 9:14 am in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2460416ujmParticipantYankel: How familiar are you regarding the activities of Rav Amrom Blau ztvk”l and the Neteurei Karta during his lifetime and during the lifetime of the Steipler Gaon?
They were considered very engaged in קנאות, as the Steipler writes and highly praises the Neteurei Karta for. Rav Blau and many others in NK were jailed many times by the Zionist state regime authorities in the Holy Land (during the Steipler’s lifetime.)
October 19, 2025 9:12 am at 9:12 am in reply to: Trop for Chosson Torah and Chosson Bereishis #2460412ujmParticipantBesalel: You’re basically correct but Sliwa would have to pull out of the race completely to give Cuomo a chance to win. In the absence of that happening, and Sliwa has given every indication he’s a kamikaze till the end, Mamdani is going to win. (Even if Sliwa does pull out the odds favor Mamdani.)
ujmParticipantIt’s more notable if there’s ever a case of someone r’l going into the IDF frum and coming out (even somewhat) frum.
The other direction, as the title of this thread discusses, is r’l the expected and default.
October 17, 2025 10:07 am at 10:07 am in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2460018ujmParticipantThe quote: “fighting the last war” comes to mind
lebidik yankel: I’m shocked you’d accuse the heilige Steipler Gaon of that.
When the Steipler wrote the above words of high praise for everything the Neturei Karta does, the Neturei Karta was already very well known during the lifetime of the Steipler as being big kanoim (as the Steipler himself wrote) who protested within and outside the State of “Israel” over the State’s existence and terrible actions. HaRav Amrom Blau ztvk”l was already arrested and thrown into Zionist prison many times during the Steipler’s lifetime for his so-called radicalism in, to use your words in which you accuse the Steipler of, “fighting the last war”.
And yet you see yourself what the Steipler Gaon says above about the Neturei Karta “fighting the last war”.
ujmParticipantMishpacha and Ami are left-wing rags. Both always have been that since the very first issues the each published.
October 17, 2025 10:07 am at 10:07 am in reply to: Trop for Chosson Torah and Chosson Bereishis #2460014ujmParticipantWelcome back, Jothar!
October 3, 2025 8:37 am at 8:37 am in reply to: Out of Town – Chassidish community options? #2456017ujmParticipantRocky: Even the OOT communities that are treading water and holding a steady frum population, often are simply experiencing no rate of growth, despite the obvious fact that the frum community B”H has a strong population growth rate. This is because even in those OOT communities many (even if not all) of the younger and newlyweds move to the Lakewood area.
ujmParticipantujmParticipantSeptember 25, 2025 10:19 pm at 10:19 pm in reply to: Out of Town – Chassidish community options? #2453904ujmParticipantAAQ: I include all the surrounding neighborhoods (including Toms River and Jackson among others) in my description of “Lakewood”. And the Greater Lakewood area (if you prefer that description) has been draining the populations of most out of town American communities, for the last 20+ some odd years. OOT frum communities over the last approximately 20 years have been hemorrhaging in either a decline or flat population (when frum population growth would typically increase the population.)
September 25, 2025 2:31 pm at 2:31 pm in reply to: Lashon Hara, Rechilus, MS”R against the MO, DL, Conservative, Reform community #2453511ujmParticipantThe inclusiveness of amisecha has a formal halachic definition.
September 25, 2025 2:31 pm at 2:31 pm in reply to: 770: A Mikdash or a Madhouse? Rabbonim Must Act Now #2453286ujmParticipantIs it still a possibility, at least theoretically, for Chabad Lubavitch to install a new Rebbe?
September 22, 2025 1:24 pm at 1:24 pm in reply to: Out of Town – Chassidish community options? #2452889ujmParticipantThe reality of the last twenty plus years is that Lakewood has been draining the frum populations of most out of town communities, which are either smaller or simply flat population-wise.
September 22, 2025 1:24 pm at 1:24 pm in reply to: Old Yishuv Residents: Pre-1948 vs. Pre-1880 #2452881ujmParticipantAnyone who came pre-48 generally did so without their emigration being facilitated by the Zionists. So the Zionists argument that they owe allegiance is clearly false.
Many who came after 1948, also, did so without it being due to the Zionists. Just like those before 1948, who came despite the Zionists, not because of them.
Most of the Zionists themselves came after 1948.
The Ran in Nedarim paskens l’halacha that the halacha of dina d’malchusa dina does NOT apply in Eretz Yisroel, since the basis of the halacha is that the local country granted the right for its Jews to live in their land, therefore the Jews must obey the law of that land. Whereas, paskens the Ran, in Eretz Yisroel every Jew in the world has a G-d given right to live there, therefore they do not owe anything to the now current local rulers of Eretz Yisroel; and as such there’s no applicable dina d’malchusa dina in Eretz Yisroel.
ujmParticipantI have the same problem with my Lamborghini.
September 22, 2025 1:24 pm at 1:24 pm in reply to: Lashon Hara, Rechilus, MS”R against the MO, DL, Conservative, Reform community #2452867ujmParticipantSo what your are saying is that everyone agrees the only question is where to draw the line of who is in, and who is out; but that everyone agrees there is a line, and some groups are outside the line? (And those Jews outside the line it is permitted [or even a Mitzvah] to speak L”H, R, MS”R, etc. of.)
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