More Rioting In Poneviz Yeshiva
The nearly decade-long succession battle for control of the Israel’s second largest non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi yeshiva got even more heated tonight.
More Rioting In Poneviz Yeshiva
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The nearly decade-long succession battle for control of the Israel’s second largest non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi yeshiva got even more heated tonight.
Riots broke out in Poneviz (Ponevitch) Yeshiva in Bnei Brak again today with students from one of the yeshiva’s warring factions spraying pepper spray and tear gas during ma’ariv (evening prayers), Behadrei Haredim reported.
Paramedics responded and evacuated three wounded haredim part to Tel Hashomer Hospital and ma’ariv was cancelled.
“Loud shouting was heard in the meeting hall and then the pepper gas was sprayed,” one witness reportedly said.
Last night, between 2:00 am and 3:00 am Thursday morning, police swooped down on the yeshiva and detained 30 students. Four were formally arrested and were released this morning under restrictive conditions by a magistrate. Teh others were questioned and released by police. The magistrate thought the arrests were unnecessary to make in the middle of the night and reportedly told police they could have conducted their investigation without making them. But tonight’s fresh violence may prove the magistrate wrong.
Today at a noon meeting, one of the “terrorist” faction’s rabbis called on his disciples to ignore the police and the arrests.
“We’re not afraid of the police,” he reportedly told his students. “Never give up!”
In 2008, one of the faction’s was allegedly responsible for leaving a live pipe bomb on the door step of the rival faction’s top rabbi, and over the past decade their have been large riots between the two the factions along with several stabbings and beatings.
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Well clearly the arrests did not diffuse the situation. Wonder what these people are doing all day. Certainly not the practical aspects of Torah observance.
Posted by: noname | January 29, 2015 at 06:30 PM
lets let assemblyhood silver figures this out now that hes got some time
Posted by: frank lopez | January 29, 2015 at 06:31 PM
this is the cream of the cream of yeashiva students at the Harvard of yeshivas. What would Rebbe Akiva have said. Is thsi why 24,000 of students were lost?? Oy Vey, Oy Vey !!!!
Posted by: Disappointed !!! | January 29, 2015 at 06:33 PM
SHOW THEM THE MONEY!!!!!!!! alle chazzars!
Posted by: frank lopez | January 29, 2015 at 06:59 PM
Don't these fools realize that Israel could be at war at any time? I think the Haredi are the best thing that ever happened for the Palestinian cause. The holy rollers are draining the country of resources and rioting as well.
Posted by: Rocky | January 29, 2015 at 07:57 PM
It's like watching through a window - I amost typed "vindow" - into a parallel universe filled with the descendants of the Wise Men of Chelm. Unreal. This is what the world thinks a Jew is.
Posted by: S M L | January 29, 2015 at 08:26 PM
When frumma attack frumma! Now on Fox!
Posted by: WoolSilkCotton; I must be seen to be believed | January 29, 2015 at 08:29 PM
This is a Discrace I agree with F.M. These are a buntch of fanatcs with nothing to do all day they should go to the army
Posted by: mb | January 29, 2015 at 08:52 PM
I davened maariv in Ponevezh once. All they did was daven. I feel cheated.
Posted by: Garnel Ironheart | January 29, 2015 at 08:55 PM
What on earth are they fighting about? Do the really care that much who runs the Yeshiva? Won’t it be the same boring routine every day anyway?
I’d saying what they’re really fighting is boredom of yeshiva life. No entertainment, no TV , no internet, no video games, no sports. no hobbies, no secular books, newspapers or magazines. Most importantly - no girls!
I've never attended yeshiva but it seems to be basically a Jewish monastery - and very few people are cut out for that kind of life of boring routine and prayer - day after day after day…
Posted by: Allan | January 29, 2015 at 09:17 PM
Anything goes for the sake of daas torah.. Any means necessary to follow the true masorah..
Gedolim should be replaced with computers - they would do a better job.
Posted by: SucceededMesiah | January 29, 2015 at 09:29 PM
Shut them down.
Sent them to the IDF
Posted by: put a square into a hole | January 29, 2015 at 09:50 PM
Clearly a machloket leshem shamayim. Either that or greed, money, and power, but it's one of the two, for sure.
Posted by: Elliot | January 29, 2015 at 10:18 PM
Savages. Just Savages.
I have said it before, and I will say it again- is this was thousands of Jews gave their lives for in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973?
Disgraceful. Nothing short of disgraceful.
Posted by: Robert J. Barron, Attorney-at-Law | January 30, 2015 at 12:09 AM
They're probably suffering from advanced chronic horniness. The real tragedy is that they probably don't even know it .
Posted by: Office of the Chief Rabbi | January 30, 2015 at 06:16 AM
And you think that only aron and Zalmen leib Teitelbaum are fighting , the difference is Satmar is fighting for money and ponevizh for kovod , bottom line is both are chara
Posted by: Moses Kestenbaum ODA | January 30, 2015 at 04:48 PM
no wonder moshiach has not come.
Posted by: Esther Ross | January 31, 2015 at 02:46 PM