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We Did Our Part. The Results Are Up to Hashem.

The polls are closing as I write this. In a few minutes the screens will light up with exit polls and everyone will start talking at once. So before all that noise begins, I want to say a few things quietly.

Who Is More Dangerous for Israel: Bennett, Lapid, and Lieberman — or Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran?

Natan Slifkin is "reeling" at a WhatsApp status from a Charedi rabbi who urged religious Jews to put their disagreements aside and vote as the Gedolim direct, because politicians like Bennett, Lapid, Lieberman, and Golan are "against Judaism."

הציבור החרדי נחשף

הכסף שמאחורי "הציבור החרדי" מגיע מאנשים שרוצים לשנות את העולם החרדי מבחוץ. הקמפיין שלה הלך למקומות שבהם אין חרדים.

Hatzibur Hacharedi Exposed

The money behind "The Charedi Public" comes from men who want the Charedi world changed from outside. Its campaign went where Charedim are not. Its leader turned down the best offer a Charedi politician has ever received.

"להד"ם": בית מרן הגר"א וייס מסיר את שמו מ"הציבור החרדי" — מפלגתו של תלמידו, הרב יהושע פפר

שלושה ימים לפני הבחירות פורסם מכתב מביתו של מרן הגאון רבי אשר וייס שליט"א, בעל ה"מנחת אשר" — מגדולי הפוסקים שבדור.

Rav Asher Weiss's Home Pulls His Name From HaTzibbur HaCharedi, the Party of His Own Talmid, Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer

The rumor is false in its entirety, the letter states; the false publication itself caused the Rav "pain and great hurt"; such involvement "was never his way"; and good awaits "those who heed daas Torah.

"חלקי עמם בזה ובבא": זקן הפוסקים הגאון רבי אביגדר נבנצל מעמיד את חלקו לעולם הבא על ההצבעה ביום שלישי

ארבעה ימים לפני הבחירות יצא מכתב בכתב ידו מן העיר

"Their Portion With Me in This World and the World to Come": Rav Nebenzahl Stakes His Own Olam Haba on Tuesday's Vote

He describes the persecution of bnei Torah by the authorities, instructs every Jew with yiras Shamayim to vote this Tuesday solely for the list the Gedolei HaDor have endorsed.

"Do Not Support Parties That Do Not Follow the Chachamim": The Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, Five Days Before the Election

One who lends support to parties that do not act according to the guidance of the Chachamim, who are emissaries of the Sitra Achra [the forces of evil] and undermine the continued existence of Torah, is included among those who cause the masses to sin, and there is no remedy for his wrongdoing.

הרבנים של הציבור החרד

מפלגתו של מוטי לייטנר פרסמה את שמותיהם של עשרה רבנים המלווים אותה. אף לא אחד מהם עומד בראש ישיבה, קהילה או בית דין מן המרכז החרדי.

The Rabbis of Hatzibur Hacharedi

Ten rabbis zero mainstream institutions · MD Ten Rabbis, Zero Mainstream Institutions: The Committee Behind "The Charedi Public"

האידיוטים השימושיים של "הציבור החרדי"

מפלגה חדשה משתמשת בשם שלנו, בקולות שלנו ובבנים שלנו. מי שמריע הכי חזק הם אלה שרצו לשבור את עולם התורה כבר שבעים שנה. ואת הסרט הזה כבר ראינו.

The Gedolim Have Spoken

The Gedolim do not waste words, and they do not sign things lightly. When Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch puts his name at the top of a page, and Rav Yeruchem Olshin and Rav Elya Brudny and the Gateshead Rosh Yeshiva put theirs beneath it, that page is not a suggestion. It is a psak about hishtadlus.

The Useful Idiots of Hatzibur Hacharedi

A new party is using our name, our votes, and our sons. The people cheering loudest are the ones who have wanted the Torah world broken for seventy years. And we have seen this all before.

With Friends Like These: The International Edition

Twelve Western nations — Britain, France, Canada, and nine others — announced this week that they will ban goods and sanction commerce from Jewish communities in Yehudah and Shomron.

Fact Check: Lapid's "1,700 Shekels a Month" Is a 2,400% Lie

Yair Lapid tells the country that every working family pays 1,700 shekels a month for Charedi "draft-dodging." A national fact-checking column examined the claim and stamped it "True." - It's all a lie!

Betrayed... Again!

They did everything the state asked of them. They enlisted voluntarily, into the army's own Charedi track — some severing ties with their parents, knowing their shidduch prospects might never recover.

"Not by Might, Nor by Force" — Signed, the Rabbis of Religious Zionism

The senior rabbinic leadership of the Religious Zionist world — headed by its elder posek, Rav Yaakov Ariel, and including the Rosh Yeshiva of Merkaz HaRav itself — has published a letter firmly rejecting the arrests of yeshiva students.

Not Even for a Minute

At the hearing on its fate, nine justices sat before a courtroom in which — remarkably — no one at all defended the law: the government sent nobody, and the Knesset's own legal adviser argued to strike it down.

"There Is No Greater Lie"

They are the words of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich — leader of the Religious Zionist party, standing at the Katif Conference and saying it aloud: "There is no greater lie than saying that the burden on those serving depends on drafting Chareidim."

We Were Just Following Orders

Outside Prison 10 this week, before thousands of Sanzer chassidim gathered in tefillah, the Rebbe shared something the askanim had heard from the police officers themselves

White Paper: Sharing The Burden - How Israel's Most Powerful Slogan Was Built to Break the Torah World

Sharing the Burden is a complete, sourced, honest answer to the accusation — assembled in one place, so it can be read, forwarded, and relied upon.

אנחנו חייבים לך תשובה, ח"כ דוידסון

סרטון דוהר ברשתות: ח"כ סימון דוידסון מ"יש עתיד" עומד בכנסת ומתפרץ על שורת בחורי ישיבה ביציע — "שמעתם על דבר כזה להתגייס?

We'll Give You an Answer, MK Davidson

A video is racing across the networks: MK Simon Davidson of Yesh Atid, standing in the Knesset, erupting at a row of yeshiva bochurim in the gallery — "Have you heard of this thing called enlisting?

Afraid of a Pair of Tefillin

For three days, a Jewish boy sat in a Jewish state's prison, unable to fulfill the mitzvah of tefillin — while, in the civilian prisons a few kilometers away, the religious rights of convicted terrorists are protected by law.

The Fire Didn't Start With the Law — How the Torah is really being burned today in the daily slander of those who learn it.

I've seen so many laments over the burning of the Torah by Apostomus on the 17th of Tammuz, and the tying of that event to current affairs and to the Basic Law on Torah study that was passed in the Knesset.

One Law for the Yeshiva, Another for Everyone Else

The campaign marching under the banner of "equal burden" is neither equal, nor about the burden.

Asked and Answered, Rabbi Dunner

Rabbi Dunner has published a lengthy response to his critics. He writes that his letter to the Prime Minister sparked a firestorm, that his challengers keep missing the point, and that almost no one has engaged what he calls the central question of the entire debate.

With Friends Like These - A response to Rabbi Pini Dunner's letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu

Rabbi Pini Dunner has published an open letter to Prime

יישר כוח, הרב לוינשטיין

מדי פעם, בעיצומו של מאבק מר ומתיש, עולה קול ממקום בלתי צפוי ופשוט אומר את האמת. השבוע היה זה קולו של ראש מכינה מן הציונות־הדתית — והעולם החרדי חב לו הכרת הטוב ויישר כוח גדול, ללא בושה.