Jerusalem – Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews from a radical sect are again blocking roads in Jerusalem bringing traffic to a standstill and scuffling with police and passers-by.
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Monday’s protest was the latest by the Peleg Yerushalmi group after some of its members were arrested when they did not go through procedures for draft exemptions granted to the ultra-Orthodox community.
Men in black hats and side locks mobbed intersections, preventing public buses and cars from moving.
Israeli TV showed footage of some men spitting and pushing a woman while yelling obscenities at her at a recent protest.
Police used a water cannon to disperse protesters and arrested 12 people.
Exemptions have long caused friction in Israeli society as most Jews are drafted after high school for three years.
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All in the name of Torah????
A BIG Hilul Hashem !
Throw that bum ‘gaon’Aurbach in jail ,he’s calling these zombies to riot . This isn’t the way of torah .They should be sitting in yeshiva and learning mussar .
Two questions: 1) is their devotion of Yiddishkeit so fragile that being in the army would cause them to become secular? Given their ehrlich quality, I would think that there is more of a chance that they would cause the secular to become Frum. 2) they claim that their learning does more to protect the nation than would their presence in the army. So why do they have to protest? They should be in their yeshivas learning and Hashem will take care of the fate of the men who have been arrested. By protesting they are actually abandoning their comrades. It is as if they do not have perfect emunah in Hashem.
Korach also had followers and they all descended into hell.
to # 5
one cannot talk that way against a older person who is a gaon in torah
while i hate and deplore peleg
the real question is who said that rav aurbach sanctions what is going on
have we heard a speech from him
have we seen a signed letter from him
just because the peleg leaders (reshaim ) say that they get their hadracha from him doesnt necc mean it is so
Many american shuls have joined adopt a kollel. i believe it is incumbent on adopt a kollel to issue a 100% guarantee that not one penny is going to a mosad that goes against the decree of our gedolim that these hooligans need to stop protesting. I am contacting my shul representative to temporarily stop all payments from our shul till we see this is writing.
This can not represent what rollout Jews are really all about. And if what is happening in these pictures, is really in keeping with actual daas Torah and what our gedolom want to actually happen, it makes me ashamed to be a frum person. Daas Torah or not the does not represent me. And as these are thoughts from a frum Jew, imagine what someone not yet frum must be thinking.
These people are just like BLM and the Antifa movement.
I am just crying.
If they do not want to serve (even finding frum alternatives, many of which exist) then maybe they should not ask for state money for support!
Or is it all about wanting to escape serving and escape working and having someone else support for self (and family)? Is that what the learning is about?
So to fight the Arabs we don’t need an army, we only need Bnei Yeshiva, cause learning does the fighting.
But to fight other Jews, then sitting and learning doesn’t work, you need to be Mevatal Torah and go out and fight. Somethin aint adding up. According to their own argument they should be in the Bais Medrash and be doing nothing else.
I believe the ultra-orthodox IDF soldiers, who stated that they were forced to wrestle with female soldiers; I also believe that female soldiers undressed in front of them to harass them. The U.S. Army did the same thing in reverse to Muslim terrorist prisoners. It engaged female soldiers to touch the private parts of those Muslims, as well as do other things to them, which were against their religion. I have no doubt that the Hareidim in the IDF (other than the special unit for Hareidim), were harassed for being religious.That being said, the commander of the IDF soldiers, who were trying to extricate the Hareidim protesters, had no business having female IDF soldiers physically grab them. It was stupid, and it seems that it was done to intentionally harass them.
Also, I believe the story about the Russian IDF goy, who placed pork in the food of the Ultra-Orthodox IDF soldier. I read of a similar story, whereby civilians near Mea Shearim,would purpose cook pork outside, and make sure that the smoke from the barbeque, would intentionally drift into an area of very frum residents.
Secular Israelis can be just as anti-semitic, as the worst anti-semite. It is sad, but
true.
Editor – if you are posting lots of photos, you really don’t need the same five lines of text accompanying each photo as it just takes more time to scroll down and first add anything.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox community, attacked the Jerusalem Faction over the battle its members have been waging against the draft law in recent days, calling them an “empty and reckless flock without a shepherd.”
nothing to worry about, our Sages promise:
כל תורה שאין עימה מלאכה סופה בטלה
and may I add my prayer
במהרה בימינו
They shouldn’t be inconveniencing the whole city by blocking traffic. I had to walk over a mile and back to get to and from an appointment because my bus couldn’t get through, and on another day I had to get off a bus far from my stop to get home last week. They may be rightful to protest but shouldn’t tie up the whole city. It isn’t fair to all the people who can’t get where they want to or need to go.
To #41 - The incident about a secular Israeli family cooking pork on a barbeque, and causing the smell from the flames to drift towards the home of frum familes, actually appeared in The Jewish Press, about twelve years ago. The Jewish Press has reported factual stories from EY for decades. Abramovitch hit the nail on the head,as the IDF for decades has promoted a biased anti-religious culture. The same holds true for the Israeli police.
Anyway, what ever we believe, i think it is a terrible travesty to go against anyone demonstrating against the forced draft of yeshiva students. This was what lapid and bennett and the knesset signed up for, and this is what they must now get.
It may be a ruthless basttle but we must win in the end. (I’m not saying “Peleg”, i don’t know what that is, but it sounds like the its the right cause. I mean reb Shmuel Aurbach the godol hador, as well as most of the massive chutz laaretz like satmar and all the chasidim (who are against voting for knesset and are therefore not bound by it). They should come out in their millions and put the israeli government to shame until they cancel the draft.
If not, it will soon get worse for bnei torah.
Reb steinman is responsible for all this missunderstanding as is a fake godol hador ( thousands believe so).
Anyway, who can not understand that a 100+ year old rabbi is too old for all this?