Against Yated Ne'eman

Posters, known as pashkvils, against the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Ne'eman attack the paper's senior staff for hypocrisy.

 

Pashkivils against Yated Ne'eman's senior staff and management were posted recently in Jerusalem.

The gist of the accusations against Yated – which is controlled by a rabbinic board of leading non-hasidic ultra-Orthodox rabbis – is hypocrisy.

According to Rafi G:

The pashkevil calls out the Yated management for driving fancy new cars while preaching to everyone else about living a life of poverty, Torah and separation from materialism. It shows pictures of the brand new million shekel Mercedes of the CEO Yaakov Levin, and it shows pictures of the brand new Cadillac of the sales manager of the newspaper Tzippi Rotlevi.

How galling it must be for rank and file haredim to see these men drive expensive new cars and display other luxury items while the rank and file struggles to feed their families.

Comments

[netflix]

well that's what happens when you have a real job.

[james]

the same is true for the US Yated.

[Seymour]

and this is news why?

this happens all the time look at the car the skver rebbie has

[Garnel Ironheart]

This is appalling. Is Tzippi Rotlevi a woman? And she's allowed to drive?

[yatedshakran]

They talk about toyrah in the yated but they realy mean money!

[jancsipista]

yatedshakran:isnt everybody like that ?

[A Yid]

Actually the Yated senior staff and management wanted to buy Rolls Royce and Bentley , but overcame their yetzer horah and bought cheaper Mercedes and Cadillac while donating the difference in price to starving avrechim in Bnei Brak.
:-)

[Elie]

And what kind of car do you drive Shmarya and what are your other benefits?

[yatedshakran]

shmarya dosent profess to be the spokesman for toyrah.

[BMY]

This is fueled by jealousy. 1- These guys are "Management," not the writers who preach, "living a life of poverty," (a statement in itself debatable). 2- If a person works hard, makes a salary, and decides to treat their self to a luxury like a nice car, it should remain their own business and not illicit protests. If someone really has a problem with it, let them not read the newspaper!

[Max]

This is based on jealousy.
The management at the Yated should be commended for actually working for a living, and using their well deserved income to buy whatever they want for themselves.

All Chareidim should be encouraged to follow suit.

Those who protest are either jealous (like liberals tend to be jealous of success), or they are Yated's compatition using this populist pashkivil as an attempt to defame their competition.

[ah-pee-chorus]

BMY and Max -

you guys (or guy) are so right. hypocrisy should be rewarded. "do as i say , not as i do" is such a beautiful maxim that we should all live by it.
on second thought, I should live by it but you should just do as i say. that works better for me. would you like to contribute to my bentley fund? it'll feel so good.

[Danny]

Obviously these people can afford these luxuries because they work.

But... the Yated was founded as a voice for the Kollel-Litvish-poverty crowd, and if there's spare cash lying around it should not be going to exorbitant salaries, but rather to lower the price of the newspaper so that its target audience can afford it.

[Alex]

I don't understand. If hassidic rebbes are allowed to wear ten-thousand dollar fur hats, be driven around in expensive cars and live in palaces with domestic staffs to take care of their every need while their poor hassidim struggle for every penny, why can't the misnagdim do the same? Are you some kind of a misnagdophobe?