Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

A leading candidate for Prime Minister of Israel sounds a lot like you know who. "Listen, this is national suicide in slow motion.  We are simply committing suicide and the next term is our last window of opportunity to save the State of Israel. This is it. Now or never. Because if we don't dismantle the anti-Zionist Haredi state we will lose the Zionist state."  Listen for yourself: Incredible that he thinks the biggest problem Israel faces is Haredim, not economic woes, not crime, not immorality, not health, not the environment, not the budget, not security concerns, not corruption. No, Haredim.  At least he's admitting that the goal of military conscription is to destroy Haredi life.  Bennett is not fringe. He's in second place among the opposition candidates. Of course, the front runner among the opposition is a military man because militarism is the religion of the state of israel. Gadi Eisenkot (Yashar!) — The breakout story. A former IDF chief of staff and...

  Is that where you want to bring your children?

 If you are Yeshivish or Chassidish do you want to come to a country where leading candidates for office base their entire platform on undermining Charedi life? If they are leading candidates that means they have popular support. That means the country is against you. That doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. And it's been like this for decades. So how can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yisrael Reismann of Torah v'daas say that the future is in Israel? How can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yitzchok Berkowitz of Aish tell Yeshivish people that they have no excuse for not moving to Israel since there are Anglo communities. (It's a stretch to call them that by the way.) How can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yitzchok Breitowitz of Ohr Somayach tell Jews to move to Israel, that they need a good excuse not to move when they majority of the country is literally out to get them. The answer is that they are not really Yeshivish. They have become Zionists. But more tha...

  Israel is 5th least peaceful. Is that where you want to bring your children?

  This is what happens when you make a religion out of an obsession with anti-Semitism which is precisely what they do in Israel. Herzl wanted to convert Jews to Catholicism if that would stop antisemitism. How nebach this guy was. He was so ignorant about Judaism, and such a nut. And he's the only person shown on the wall of the Knesset, a big picture of him, this sad lost soul who died young.  Every day in the Israeli press, antisemitism is a major topic The Times of Israel has 8 articles about antisemitism on its home page on Oct 12, 2026. They are so ignorant and so faithless. Why is there antisemitism? I'll tell them because they are the child at the seder who does not know how to ask. It's because of sin. It is a reminder to come back to Torah Judaism. Rather than try to stamp out antisemitism from 7 billion gentiles, change yourself. They have learned nothing over the decades and still spew the same shallow foolishness as Herzl. 

"Returning to Aliyah today: All those who make Aliyah for the sake of uplifting themselves spiritually, for the sake of fulfilling a Mitzvah, for the sake of being part of Jewish history, and for the sake of living in the land of Kedushah, have no problem with facing the challenges of Aliyah, and certainly have no intention of leaving Eretz Yisrael." The above passage is from the book the Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Vol. VII. The editor Aharon Ziegler does not give a source for this statement. And that's a problem because the statement contradicts verifiable statements from Rabbi Soloveitchik on the subject. Rabbi Soloveitchik: "It is ridiculous to tell a young man, who does a good job, or has prepared or trained himself to do a good job [here in the U.S., that he must instead go to ארצ ישראל]. "Good job" means to spread Torah, or to lead an exemplary life which serves as an example to others through personal contact - there are many...

In Volume VIII of his A Study of History (published in 1954), British historian Arnold Toynbee wrote that "the Israeli has become an entirely 'new man' because he has divested himself of his Jewish past." Context: Toynbee was making an argument about Zionism and Jewish identity. His view was that: The Israeli represented a complete break from Diaspora Jewish history and tradition By creating a secular, nationalist, territorial state, Israelis had transformed themselves into something fundamentally different from "the Jew" of the preceding 2,000 years He described Israelis as "half American farmer-technician, half Nazi sicarius" ( sicarius meaning assassin) I can affirm that this is true. Can you deal with it?