Reuven Lediansky, who is running for mayor of the city while waging war on Chareidim and Datiim, published a post last week slamming a Chabad chassid and dubbing him a missionary.
Lediansky is at the forefront of fighting against everything or anyone related to religion in the city of Tel Aviv, including a Yom Ha’atzmaut tefillah due to the use of mechitzos [despite allowing an Islamic prayer event with mechitzos] and the promised use of a building for Yeshivas Ma’ale Eliyahu.
Lediansky, who served as deputy mayor of Tel Aviv until he was fired from his position by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai earlier this month, reposted a video of a mother verbally attacking the Chabadnik and telling him to “get out of here.” He wrote: “Huldai is abandoning our children to Chabad missionaries!! It will end with me!! Our children are out of bounds for the missionaries! A Chabad agent showed up at the entrance to the Boy Scouts group in Ramat Aviv with the goal of putting tefillin on minors. Kol HaKavod to the mother lioness who stood up to him!”
Attorney Amir Shmeterling Halevi sent a letter to Lediansky on behalf of the Chabadnik demanding that he remove the post and threatening him with a libel lawsuit. Halevi wrote, among other things: “We were deeply shocked by the case in which a public representative allowed himself to attack a citizen without any restraint and publicly shame him while exploiting his power on the social network in a bullying manner and while calling and presenting him as a missionary and a member of a Messianic sect.
“Using these expressions has one purpose – to hurt and insult, and we will not agree to that. In the State of Israel, placing tefillin on Jews over the age of 13, without coercion, is not a criminal offense and certainly not defined as ‘missionary.'”
Lediansky not only didn’t remove the post but added two more posts since then with escalated rhetoric, calling Chabad chassidim “messianic and missionary agents.”
Speaking as if he was talking about a terrorist mingling among children, he wrote: “Threats of a lawsuit will not move me‼️ I will continue to protect our children from messianic and missionary elements! I received a warning letter prior to a lawsuit to the court from the lawyer of the same Chabad agent who was standing near the gate of the Ramat Aviv Scout tribe. ‼️Neither Chabad nor the Messianic bodies will control the public space. The fact that they got used to it because Huldai abandoned the streets of the city – this is about to end! I will not allow appeals to our children, there will be no separate events between men and women with mechitzot on the streets of the city, there will be no religionization in Tel Aviv-Yafo and certainly not religious coercion‼️”
“💪🏽 I will fight against all the extremists and messianics who want to damage the image of our city! Only under my leadership will Tel Aviv continue to be secular and liberal.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“Reuven Lediansky, who is running for mayor of the city…published a post last week slamming a Chabad chassid and dubbing him a missionary.
Lediansky is at the forefront of fighting against…religion in the city of Tel Aviv, including a due to the use of mechitzos [despite allowing an Islamic prayer event with mechitzos]…”
Lots to unpack there.
From this reporting, Lediansky seems to be a Jew hater and hater of G-d, par for the course for a loyal Zionist (idolater and heretic).
However, as terrible as is Zionist idolatry, that doesn’t negate other idolatry being idolatry. There is also some truth in referring to Chabad as “missionary”.
1. Some of Chabad theology is very problematic, as gedolim have written and otherwise publicly noted. For example, claiming (in their basi liGani sicha and in publicly available YouTube videos by their Rabbis) that their (deceased) leader is G-d incarnate, runs the world, etc. is, of course, ordinary Christian theology, which of course very much qualifies as “missionary”.
2. A “Yom Ha’atzmaut tefillah” is an affront to G-d and practically guaranteed to be composed of all sorts of (Zionist) heresy and idolatry.
I missed including “Yom Ha’atzmaut tefillah” in this quote:
“Lediansky is at the forefront of fighting against…religion in the city of Tel Aviv, including a due to the use of…”.
So, that should have been:
“Lediansky is at the forefront of fighting against…religion in the city of Tel Aviv, including a “Yom Ha’atzmaut tefillah” due to the use of…”.
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/local/article/14321416
If Frum Yiden can do this so what should we expect from not affiliated yiden.
HASHEM YIRACHEM!!
Chabad should double their efforts there.
@hakatan: who are you to call the Lubavitcher Rebbe Zatzal’s maamar “problematic”. See Rambam hilchos Talmud Torah 6:11 for the severity of what you just did by writing what you did. And that is not mentioning your Gaavah! Katan you call yourself???!!! Katan Shebaktanim you are!! Tachton shebatachtonim!!!! I am mishtomem at your chutzpah!!!!
We thank Hashem every year for giving us back Eretz Yisroel to his promised people.
That is the point of Judaism, hakoras hatov.
Why not thank Hashem on Yom Haatzmaut?
I hope the Chabad Chassidim double and triple their efforts in Tel Aviv, and win big in this libel case.
I hope that the Lubavitchers bring many more people to put on Tefilin with many more “minors” and this fool remains without a job.
Is HaKatan agreeing with the unhinged former public official while putting words in his mouth? Or is he/she just trying to rationalize unfounded hatred? Because I would’ve guessed the former public official is against all things Jewish (probably even public holidays) without reason. Notice I say Jewish, and not other religions, as those are likely ok.
Real Jews don’t missionize
@RoshYeshivasTaina . Look at yourself in the mirror before blasting somone else…
They are getting it confused and religion doesn’t always help
But chabads chance to show that Torah doesn’t make them weak