Agudath Israel have you no shame
Shame No excuse that for honor and claims of trying to influence policy you were at the convention of their democrats who openly called for embargo’s on arms to defend Israel
ZACHOR-REMEMBER
A short time before the first world war, a noted Torah scholar Rabbi Meir. Simcha Hacohen of Divinsk, an acknowledged leader and author of the Meshech Chochmah, on the Torah, forewarned of an impending calamity in Europe. Unfortunately, his prediction was correct.
History has an uncanny ability to repeat itself. A famous Orthodox politician announced in the Knesset, just prior to the Six-Day War, “The world says man learns from history, and history shows us again and again that man has learned nothing from history”. Today it appears that we are among those who have learned nothing from history.
Here in this beautiful country, we are seeing see images of the same predicament faced in pre-Holocaust Europe.
Here are a few examples of what all of American Jewry is facing today.
A major increase in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attacks on individuals and institutions in cities across the USA. Houses of worship and individuals are being targeted.
Jew free zones are being set up on campuses.
Anti-Jewish hatred is being spewed out by college “educators” and administrators.
There is no punishment or consequence for participants in anti-Jewish or anti-Israel riots in colleges and cities.
Jewish students are being closed out of some areas on campuses. Jewish and Israeli organizations and individuals are being banned from participation in national and international events.
Israeli sports teams are being ostracized or banned from events.
Our educational system is being blasted with ideas and actions that the Torah specifically abhors. Forced teachings in primary school classes, even in yeshivas, of topics that our sages taught should have been spoken about privately, or at age-appropriate levels.
Communities abroad are challenged by new regulations banning Schitah and Brit-Milah.
Democrats are running for the two highest offices in the land, have a known history of cozying up to, and supporting anti-Semites and Jew haters.
The leader of the Senate, in an unprecedented outrageous announcement, made a call to get rid of Israel’s prime minister.
In our cities, murderers and rapists are allowed to roam the streets with impunity, bail free, after committing horrendous crimes.
Public bathrooms are no longer set according to the sex of an individual.
Items are placed in public bathrooms that are totally inappropriate for young children.
We are seeing a plan advocated by liberals to actively destroy the very moral fiber of American society.
Are we to be sad angry or frustrated, when we see Jewish leaders kissing up the individuals promoting all of the above at the convention. Their ridiculous hope is to be close to leadership,and drink from the trough of government programs, grants and handouts. These are the so-called leaders who stand in line to cow-tail to the politicians who are actively destroying the moral fabric of our country, and in doing so, of the Jewish people. Among them avowed and outspoken antisemites.
Shame on Agudath Israel and other organizations who sent their leaders to the Democrat Party Convention to stand and show support to antisemites and self-hating Jews. Do they not have any pride in their Jewish souls? Watching the leaders of Agudath Israel, grinning in staged pictures with individuals who would cut off American aid, so vital to Israel’s survival, makes one cringe.Do they have to hold an event at the convention that has policies that call for the destruction of Jewish values? Same sex marriages, sex changes and letting full term pregnancies end with allowing the infant to be aborted. Are they the representatives of the Jewish people? It makes one ask if they are on the side of the future of World Jewry, or are they guided by financial gains and personal grandeur?
For more than two centuries, Jews have come to these shores to escape the hatred they faced in Europe. Shame on the individuals because of their ill gained wealth, who stand side-by-side with self-hating Jews, and those who are overtly against the war being waged for the survival of Israel.
Is painful to watch rabbis and so-called lay leaders who stand smiling with politicians who announce that they find a so-called moral equivalency between the war being waged by our numerous enemies against Israel and the difficult battle fought by our brethren to survive. More than 1200 of our fellow Jews were murdered, raped, butchered, burned, shot and kidnapped on October 7. Do not forget. Perhaps we should read up on our history, including the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the brutal murder of the city of Beitar. Or the pogroms and the expulsion of Jews from so many countries, during the past 20 centuries around the world.
Is this leadership upon which we rely? Is there not a single Rabbi or adult, able to stand up and be counted? Is there not a single lay leader among them?
One can understand the sadness and frustration so many of our people feel towards the rabbinate and lay leadership of our communities across the USA when they see the blatant hypocrisy bysome of the so called representatives of Jewry
These so called leaders are for the most part the same people who fight for the wrong items. And some of their rabbis are known to give haven to those unwilling to give a get.
Aguda Help change the law so a get is not a bargaining chip
These so-called leaders are for the most part the same people who do not stand up for the rights of single mothers. and give haven to those unwilling to give a Get.
We were living today in a time when one has to wonder if they should cover their head in public with a baseball cap rather than a Kippa, out of fear.
Even if you do not particularly like the alternative, I believe after reading the above, that it is incumbent upon everyone not to vote nor support those who by their words and actions, and indeed show by their history that they are not pro-Israel and not pro-Jewish. They are fighting a subtle battle against the values that we as Jews hold to be the basis of a Torah true life.
Unfortunately, none of the above facts can be refuted.
Wake up American Jewry. History has taught us that we all carry the title of Jew. The children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. No matter how much we try and blend in to society, and no matter how much effort is expended to achieve this unattainable goal, and no matter how much a Jew practices or does not practice, 1933 to 1944 taught us a lesson we must not forget. There was not a single Nazi who questioned the religiousness of a Jew, as he carried out his inhuman and inhumane mission.
It is my humble prayer that G-d should radiate His kindness on all of us and keep all of our brethren safe, where ever they may be.
Please, reach out to Agudath Israel,the rabbis and the lay leadership and asked them why they behave the way they do.
ZACHOR-REMEMBER
Ben Israel
August 2024
Menachem Av 5784