NEW YORK – In a nearly two-hour unfiltered interview on the ninth episode of “Teef Teef” (Yiddish for “Deep Deep”), Ami Magazine’s Senior White House Correspondent, Shloime Zionce pressed lobbyist Ezra Friedlander on his controversial political relationships, including meetings with anti-Israel politicians.
Friedlander, often criticized for meeting with anti-Israel politicians, defended his approach: “One can never know how this might help in the future. We are currently in golus, and we have to deal with everyone.” He added that while he does not work on behalf of Klal Yisrael directly, engaging with politicians can sometimes influence them to view Jewish interests more positively.
The discussion tackled Friedlander’s meetings with Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib at a 2023 Washington Iftar event, which drew sharp criticism from the Jewish community. Zionce pressed even harder, asking provocative questions, including whether Friedlander would have met Hitler, prompting a measured and thoughtful response.
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Friedlander also addressed criticism from Democrats over his meetings with President Donald Trump and hosting Congressman Paul Gosar, emphasizing that his approach has been consistent across the political spectrum.
“Teef Teef” was launched to give the Yiddish-speaking world a platform for raw, unfiltered conversations. “Hasidic men were coming to me, saying they were listening to Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate, because nothing available in Yiddish was speaking to them. I figured I’d give it a shot, and with G‑D’s help, it looks like we’re starting to succeed,” Zionce told VIN News.
I’m begging you. Instead of reading the comments today please learn a Mishnah for Menucha Chaya bas Amichai who left this world at 28 years of age after a life of suffering. She had no children and so it’s up to the Klal to help raise her neshama. Please. Close the site for just a few minutes and learn a Mishnah. If you can’t, please say a kepitel Tehillim. Thank you.
Ezra’s selling out of his own people for a buck would make cheap crack prostitutes embarrassed.
He deserves zero respect.
Ezra goes where the money is. Plain and simple.
Obviously he does not know any lines, the first and the only Jew I’ve ever heard having no issue meeting with Hitler, he says it out straight he will do anything for money nothing will hold him back.
And he must be very in right and low IQ that he still has no idea why people think so negative about lobbyists.
Exactly as shloimy tells him that it is a very dirty job he will do anything for a buck.
Friedlander, often criticized for meeting with anti-Israel politicians, defended his approach: “One can never know how this might help in the future. We are currently in golus, and we have to deal with everyone.
He is correct in this statement but making an absolute false application. Yes, if some rabid anti-semite lawmaker extended an invitation to askonim for a private conversation to discuss issues of concern to the frum community I would say GRAB IT!!! But that is NOT what anti-semites meet with Ezra Friedlander for. They meet with him because he is a propaganda prop for them. His picture with them is used a hechser and to clear themselves of charges of anti-semitism to make themselves even more free to engage in it.
I’ve never heard Freidlander even try to claim that he actively lobbies the antisemites he meets on behalf of Klal Yisroel.
So golus means to embrace anti semites genius, why is he given a platform
This guy is his own posek, judge, and jury. Answers to nobody
FRUM MEN ARE LISTENING TO ANDREW TATE?!
This stupid person must be thoroughly checked for alliiances and how he makes a living
How do the Askanim hold?
He isn’t the brightest person. But he knows his line of work
Didn’t know Rogan and Tate had Yiddish podcasts.
Umm, I believe he is a lobbyist which means this is how he earns his living. He is not there to help the Jewish nation, he is there to pay his bills. that’s why he had a hard time answering the question of Helfen Yiddin. If he is such a huge BP Askan I must be living under a rock because I first heard his name by reading this article.
really the same thing with Mamdani – of course we shouldn’t vote for him, but need a plan in case he wins chas v’shalom
Why is Ezra Friedlander criticized for meeting anti-Israel politicians when President Trump meets radicals and even states that funded Oct. 7? Yes, it’s messy, but Trump is securing peace deals and engaging Syria’s new leader with a 10M bounty on his head. Why the double standard?
Don’t like him. Don’t love him. But in his defense, you have to be friends with your enemies…
reb ezra is the scion of hasidic rebbes, and a major askan in boro park and hasidic circles. you cannont question him. so what he works for erdogan and qatar and posts tlaib and omar pics. he is a major boro park powerbroker