In a meeting held Friday at the home of Harav Malkiel Kotler shlit”a, the Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha delivered a powerful message to dozens of rabbanim and roshei chaburah: the upcoming gubernatorial primary election is of critical importance to the Lakewood kehilla and the broader Orthodox Jewish community.
Gathered around the Rosh Yeshiva were leading rabbanim and roshei chaburah, who were urged to rally their respective shuls and chaburos to vote in the upcoming primaries – and particularly the Democratic primary. Rav Malkiel noted that the Lakewood Vaad, with the full backing of the roshei yeshiva, is calling on the tzibbur to cast their vote for Josh Gottheimer in the Democratic primary — the only Democratic candidate in the race with both a realistic path to victory and a longstanding relationship with the Lakewood community.
On the Republican side, Jack Ciattarelli also has close ties with Lakewood, but with President Trump’s endorsement, he has the GOP primary locked up. The Democratic side of the primaries, however, is a wide open race.
Askanim and rabbanim at the meeting echoed the urgency of the moment, pointing to looming federal policy shifts that could significantly affect frum mosdos. Of particular concern is the push to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and shift funding authority to individual states — a move that, in the hands of leaders unfriendly to frum values and needs, could prove devastating for yeshivos and Jewish day schools.
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God forbid to vote for Eretz Hakodesh which would remove funding from the reform and instead transfer it to moisdos so that our venerable elderly Gedolim shouldn’t have be matriach themselves to come to shnorring from us Americans
But to vote for the Anti-Trump, LGBTQ Mushchos demonrat, who is anti school vouchers?
Yes, definitely vote for him.
wackyway:
Yes, G-d forbid to violate severe prohibitions in the Torah to join the WZO (and then vote for EH).
Regardless, it obviously didn’t occur to you that this increased extreme oppression of Jews by the wicked Zionists has happened only after EH lied and propagandized to get themselves into the WZO five years ago, as opposed to before then.
So, compare all the years before EH joined the WZO to the five years after. The Zionists’ war on the Torah was always terrible ever since Zionism started, but the wicked Zionists’ oppression of Jews and the wicked Zionists’ war on the Torah was never nearly as bad as it became ever since EH joined the WZO.
The chutzpah is staggering.
You stoop to calling Gedolei Torah — leaders who’ve carried generations of Klal Yisrael with tireless devotion — “shnorers”? That’s not a critique. That’s bizayon haTorah in its rawest form. These are the builders of our Torah world, and you mock them with cheap, keyboard cowardice?
You offer no ideas, no respect, or substance — just venom. And for what? To sneer at those whose boots you’re not worthy to shine?
And to the moderators: allowing this comment through is deeply troubling. You gave a platform to someone publicly disgracing Rav Malkiel shlit”a and the very values your readership holds dear.
Take it down. Stand for something.
@wackyway
We are American citizens, therefore we vote in American elections. We are NOT zionists, so we do NOT vote in zionist elections.
Simple. As. That.
Use. Your. Brain.
For. Once.
@wackyway they didn’t ask you.
YWN, perhaps comments should be disabled on such types of posts which says the guidance of our leaders (and the opinions of the common folk are irrelevant)?
Mr Yid,
You are in need of some SERIOUS reading comprehension. I did NOT call any Gedolei Yisroel “Shnorers”.
To the contrary, I was protesting the Bizayon Hatorah that these venerable elderly Gedolim having to come to the USA shnoring for $$$. There were plenty of other Gedolim who did allow voting for the WZO and that would have provided a huge source of funding for the Israeli yeshivos and quite possible could have prevented these Gedolim from having to go thru the Tircha of traveling at their age on a long tiring trip
Using the same thumb twisting logic to instruct us to vote for a Anti-Trump, LGBTQ Mushchos demonrat, they could have just as well figured out a hetter to vote for EH and gain funding for the yeshivos without degrading the Kavod of the Ziknei Rosh Yeshivos of EY
@ Happy New Year
If you would just the slightest bit educate yourself before you spew, you wouldn’t have to come off sounding like such a fool. The WZO elections are ONLY open to USA (and perhaps some other countries as well) voters. Israeli citizens CANNOT vote in these elections
@ Hakatan
And according to the Satmar Rebbe, the entire Metzius of a Medinah is just as prohibited, yet, Millions of Charedi Jews live in the Treifene Medina, speak its Treife Language and rely on chilonim and apikorsim to sustain them. No one is forcing you to vote for WZO, but your Posek who told you not to vote isn’t the only Psak Halacha
And regarding the rest of your babble blaming the current oppressions on EH is Shtussim Vhavolim and not worthy of a response