Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  ALL CREDIT GOES TO Toras Avigdor   print Q: Can the Rav share with us his opinion regarding Rav Kook? A:   Rav Kook was certainly a frum Jew – only here we come to the mixing of the boundaries. The boundaries were overstepped. Rav Kook made a very big mistake because he prepared the way for the worse ones to come. Now, it took some time before the worst ones appeared on the scene, but the worst ones couldn’t have come if the good one hadn’t prepared the way. In those days there was no opportunity for the Va’ad Le’umi – that’s the National Council – to gain any control over religious affairs, because they were irreligious Jews. But money they had. So they were able to organize a religious council. But they needed some authority that would sanction – that would give them an entrance into Jewish religious affairs. Rabbi Kook, and I’m going to tell you now, maybe it was never published before but I heard it firsthand from the last Telzer Rav z”l – that’s the older brot...

  An amazing way for charedim to avoid being draft-dodgers Natan Slifkin Jun 08, 2026 You can’t make this stuff up. Well, you can, and actually I myself did make it up, two years ago, as an April Fool’s Day prank . And some people condemned me as being “vile,” stating that no such thing could ever happen. And now, lo and behold, it’s being professedly seriously proposed. Yaakov Grodko is one of the hosts at Kol Berama, a popular charedi radio station based in Bnei Brak. He discusses how charedim can avoid the pesky Zionists punishing them for refusing to enlist in the IDF. He raises a point that I have heard many charedim state - that it is unfair how they are expected to enlist, when Muslim Arabs are not. And he says that in the charedi community, there are those proposing a novel solution: they can become Muslim! Of course, this doesn’t mean that they should actually become Muslim. Rather, as he explains, the idea is that they should appear to convert to Islam, but only as a ruse...

  All credit goes to Reb Harry Maryles Harry Maryles Jun 04, 2026            Scott Pelley - late of 60 Minutes (WSJ) Scott Pelley seems like a truly nice guy. An honest reporter who doesn’t seem to inject his personal biases into his reporting. Biases that, I’m sure, tend heavily toward the left. I am sorry to see him go. Yesterday, the mainstream media reported that he was fired from his job at the mega-popular TV news magazine, 60 Minutes. What precipitated his departure was a heated confrontation at a staff meeting with 60 Minutes’ newly installed executive producer, Nick Bilton. Apparently, Pelley came into that meeting with ‘both guns blazing’! Upset about the departures of the show’s previous producer, Tanya Simon, and two of its regular correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. The issue at hand is the accusation that CBS’s new management has tried to interfere with the journalistic integrity and freedom of expression of its reporters by ...