Thursday, August 04, 2005

Charedim and Disengagement

Marvin Schick asks Do the Charedim Care About the Dati Leumi?

Although my affiliation is essentially in the charedi sector, notably the yeshiva world, I have long regarded the Dati Leumi people with whom I have contact as individuals blessed with the highest ideals and values, people who exemplify true Torah modesty and who are extraordinarily sincere and careful in their devotion to mitzvos.

It seems to me that the charedi world, at least in Israel, is uncaring about the open wounds being experienced by many Dati Leumi. Is this deliberate? Or perhaps, it is simply that charedim have other interests and problems.


This is a very inportant question that needs to be answered by the Charedi community.

Update


Jonathan Rosenblum has written an article More on Disengagement about this as well.

Agudath Israel of America published last week “A Call to Share the Pain of Acheinu Bais Yisrael,” which called on all Jews “to pause and share in the pain of our Jewish brethren in Gaza.” The statement went on to describe those about to be evicted from Gaza as “idealistic, dedicated Jews, [who] are being forced by circumstances entirely beyond their control to give up their homes, their yeshivos, their shuls and their cemeteries, to be relocated abruptly to new surroundings.”
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But it must also be admitted that there is apathy as well. It is hard to imagine that there would not be more concern if a much smaller number of chareidi families were being evicted from their homes in a similar fashion.

A good friend visiting from the States last week confided to me that he “went ballistic” when one of his daughters complained that she did not know where she would now get bug-free vegetables. He asked her to imagine how she would feel if Lakewood decided to use its power of eminent domain (under the recent Supreme Court decision on the subject) to raze Lakewood Yeshiva and all the houses of yeshivaleit nearby, in order to build a huge shopping mall and upscale apartment buildings. Would her primary concern then be the quality of her lettuce?
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7 comments:

yaak said...

This should dispel the myth.

bluke said...

So why are they still in the government?

ADDeRabbi said...

here's a good example:
http://www.katifund.org/katifund/eng/pages/news.asp?newsCode=231

i believe it to be the exception, though, not the rule.

bluke said...

Interestingly enough it has been the Chassidic leaders who have been more supportive. The Tolna rebbe was quoted in Mishpacha as asking why is no one in the Charedi world upset about this and doing something about it

Jameel @ The Muqata said...

Bluke: My Belzer first cousins (I'm Litvak - theyre not) all have Orange streams on their bikes and cars in Kiryat Belz.

bluke said...

That is great but where is the leadership? Why are they still in the government? Actions speak louder then words, and their actions send the message that money is more important then being anti-disengagement

Litvshe said...

I was told that the Slonim yeshiva went to the protest in Ofakim and R' Ovadiyah has given his approval for his followers to go to hafganot.