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  FAKER EXPOSED: “Chareidi” in Yerushalayim Revealed as Christian Missionary, Wrote Tefillin, Officiated at Chasunos April 25, 2021 11:21 am all credit goes to Matzav.com 0 >>Follow Matzav On Whatsapp!<< There is shock in the chareidi community in the French Hill neighborhood in Yerushalayim, asa local  kohein  and  Sofer Stam  in the area has turned out to be a gentile, a Christian missionary. His children have been studying in local educational institutions and Bais Yaakov. The father identified himself as a  kohein , wrote  tefillin  and  mezuzos , conducted  pidyon habens,  and even served as  mesader kiddushin  at weddings. Now it turns out, this man is a gentile. After investigations by the Bechadrei Chareidim news outlet, it became clear that the family immigrated to Israel from the United States using forged documents. The family settled in the Yerushalayim neighborhood. Not long ago, the mother of the ...

  Jewish Intolerance and Sephardim by Jeremy Rosen ALL CREDIT GOES TO THE ALGEMENER JOURNEL and the Author. To confuse matters, when Hasidism, a European Ashkenazi movement, emerged in the 18th century, it adopted the mystical style of prayer attributed to Rebbi Yitzchak Luria — who lived in Safed — and called it Nusah Sefard, the Oriental style. Although there was nothing Oriental about those who used it. In 1948, there was a massive expulsion of Jews from Arab and other Muslim lands. Most ended up in Israel where they were described as Mizrahim — Easterners — which carried the reek of discrimination and condescension. They were treated as second-class citizens. Israel was poor at the time, struggling to survive. It had to absorb nearly a million refugees. Many were penniless and lacked the skills and language to adapt. Their conditions were rudimentary and their opportunities meager. The Jews who dominated government and society for the first 30 years of the state ...

 

Rav Feldman’s Selective Approach to Gedolim ALL Credit goes to Rabbi Harry Maryles who is the Author of this post. Rav Aharon Feldman ( Baltimore Jewish Life ) I was a fan of the current Ner Israel Rosh HaYeshiva. It was Rav Aharon Feldman who showed true compassion for - and understanding of gay individuals in a  letter he sent to a gay Baal Teshuva. Unlike the typical attitude expressed by so many Orthodox Jews that do not understand the Torah’s admonition in this regard, Rav Feldman said the following:  ‘Judaism looks negatively at homosexual activity, but not at the homosexual nature.’ It takes a man of great courage to express a view that at the outset might seem to go against the grain of the Charedi world he is a part of. A view that does not differentiate between the gay individual and the gay behavior.  Rav Feldman is right of course. I have expressed the same view many times when discussing the subject. I said ‘I was a fan’. I no longer am. It appears that ...

 All credit goes to Rabbi Yisrael Shapira and the Kikar Hashabbat Website.