Video: The Interview Haredim Tried To Stop

Rabbi Daniel Korobkin of BAYT in Toronto brought MK Rabbi Dov Lipman of Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid Party to Toronto to speak in March. Haredi leaders in the city tried to stop Korobkin from bringing in Lipman and went as far, so say, as to threaten Korobkin with excommunication if he gave a platform to Lipman, who was being vilified by haredi gedolim (leading senior rabbis) worldwide for his positions on the haredi draft and on secular education in haredi schools.

MK Rabbi Dov Lipman

Rabbi Daniel Korobkin of BAYT in Toronto brought MK Rabbi Dov Lipman of Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid Party to Toronto to speak in March. Haredi leaders in the city tried to stop Korobkin from bringing in Lipman and went as far, so say, as to threaten Korobkin with excommunication if he gave a platform to Lipman, who was being vilified by haredi gedolim (leading senior rabbis) worldwide for his positions on the haredi draft and on secular education in haredi schools. (In America, that vilification was led by Ner Israel's Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Aharon Feldman. Both Lipman and Korobkin are graduates of Ner Israel.)

Korobkin did not give in. Lipman spoke.

Here is video of Korobkin's extended conversation/interview with Lipman:

[Hat Tip: Sholom Eisenstat.]

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