Current Events
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Anti-Semitism or Anti-Zionism?
The Hebrew edition of Achakeh Lo (p. 224) describes a tactic by which the today’s Jewish media makes Jews into Zionists, without making a single argument about the subject itself (the question of whether Zionism violates the oaths of exile). There are many non-Jews who oppose Zionism for their own reasons: their support for Palestinian…
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The full story behind Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s supposed support for voting in the WZO election
By Rabbi Sholom Kamenetsky, son of Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky Rabbi Lerner approached my father and asked him to support voting in the WZO. My father refused. But he said that he would think about it, since it seemed to be a very serious matter. Rabbi Lerner sent another delegation to my father to pressure him…
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The WZO Election
Five years ago, Pesach Lerner started a party called Eretz Hakodesh within the World Zionist Organization, and set about convincing chareidi Jews to vote for it. In a way, we have to thank him for bringing the issue of Zionism to the fore so that gedolim around the world had the opportunity to come forward…
I Will Await Him 