Washington – Over two thousand fervently Orthodox Jews protested outside the White House against the excavation of ancient graves in Israel.
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The protest, organized by True Torah Jews, the Central Rabbinical Congress, and Asra Kadisha, took place Tuesday to coincide with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit with President Obama.
According to Rabbi David Niederman, a representative for the Central Rabbinical Congress, the protest had three goals. In addition to raising awareness about what the groups view as the desecration of ancient gravesites in Ashkelon and Jaffa, event organizers wanted to draw a distinction between the state of Israel and the Jewish people. They also wanted to protest the Israeli government’s suppression of protesters in Israel who disapprove of the excavations.
“Free speech and religion must prevail,” Niederman said. “The state of Israel does not represent the Jewish people.”
Protesters delivered a petition to Israel’s embassy in Washington on Tuesday morning. According to Niederman, the embassy refused to accept the petition
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Rabbi Moshe Dovid Niderman President of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg Speaks at the front of the state department
great demonstration. Tell the goyim that Jews are not Israeli’s and vice versa. Sorry, the world doesn’t see it that way. Chilul Hashem doesn’t begin to describe this demonstartion. They should all be……..
Apparently the JTA couldn’t ignore such a massive demonstration, but they also coulnt take themselves to write the real number which was estimated by police as close to 5,000 protesters. In this weather, and whch meant atleast 8 hours of travel (both ways).
these people are not orthodox they are chassidic btw no matter how much they deny it they are neturei karta and hate Israel
when the misnachlim and chabad protested against rabin and sharon, nobody complaint its a chilul hashem. I remember thay even had big posters “nazi traitor” in front of the sheraton when sharon visited after gush katif soon u will see all “ma yufisniks” complaining against satmar. hipocrits
what a kidish h”shem
Wow!! Such a huge oilum standing in oven like temperatures, unbelievable!
Impressed!
Thanks to our dear holy brothers in America, for standing to our side in protecting the holy grave sites through out Eretz Yisroel.
I look at the photos here and on other sites and I’m so amazed.
Im not Chasidish but tears are coming to my eyes to see such Mesiraas Nefesh for Yideshkiet!! What a Kiddush Hashem!! May Hashem be with them!! I wish I would have the great fortune to be a part of them!!!!
Its a shreklicha chilul hashem…..”v’hu rachim ychaper uvoin”
They made complete fools out of themselves.
These are the true enemies of Yiddishkeit.
embarrassing.
#4 , right on the button.
Nobody in the rest of the world takes them seriously. They got ZERO coverage in the mainstream media. They should have been studying Torah instead of doing this groisa averah.
One things for sure they weren’t beaten with clubs and run down with horses and throw in jail like they do in Israel. Just something to think about!
Kudos to Satmar and CRC for doing what the Torah requires and demands from you, not looking at what the seculars, Zionists and torah haters have to say or blog about it.
Keep up the great work, it will bring us closer to moshiach.
The leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah are smiling.
This was really a huge kuddish hasham to see so many people demonstrating on a hot day like yesterday. Let’s just hope that the digging of our fathers graves will come to a complete end.
what makes them fervently orthodox?
if somebody would report an abuser to the DA they are labeled a moser
please explain to me, how this is not the biggest possible mesira
“Do as I say,not as I Do”
meshiach will come the day that same people join a demonstration for LIVE jews
Lets focus on Gilad Shalit to start
Wow………… beautiful…………….
Reply to #24 , Hamas may be smiling, but they ares till not giggling as they did when the misnachalim and pro zionists through out the world came protesting against Israel and Sharon with signs “Nazi traitor”..
As I see here from the secular and Jew hater comments all I can say is, “yesterdays protest hit them where it hurts!”, the faker Zuionists faces are being unmasked, their ongoing police brutality is being announced to the world, their lack of respect for deceased and ancient graves is being protested on the streets of US, until those Israeli thugs will start behaving “atleast” like the umos ho’oilum.
The people protesting look jewish I.e wearing yarmulke and tzitzis keep shabos.keep tahars hamishpacha. eat kosher put on tefilin every day and learn gods torah they are protesting against people who don’t look jewish I.e. Not wearing a yarmulka and tzitzis. not keeping shabos.not keeping taharas hamishpacha.not eating kosher.not puting on tefilin every day.and not learning gods torah.so who represents judaisem and who’s not. We report you decide
In order to free Gilad Shalit you don’t have to abandon Torah and mitzvos, you don’t have to dig up graves 2,000 years old and up, and you don’t have to crack heads of demonstrators.
You can protest against the evil Israeli government, and work and pray for the release of Shalit.
a demonstration is needed to tell the world that these protesters do not represent true Torah Judaism far from it and most Jews think they are a cult loosely based on Judaism.
when they start protesting against child molesters people who commit fraud even to help KJ protest against those people and say they are not what a Jewish person should do maybe I will have some respect for them until then they are a embarrassment
CHILLUL HASHEM DURING THE 3 WEEKS!
we need eretz yisroel and we need america to see we are altogether beachdus!
if they were right there would be all frum yidden
While I am certainly in emotional turmoil over how the world perceives yesterday’s demonstration, I can only say that it was the right thing to do. As an orphan who has buried both parents a’h, I cringe when I think of bulldozers ch’v ripping up their graves and scattering their bones all over the place! For all those who are pontificating, just stop and reflect what you would feel like if these were the kevarim of YOUR very close relatives. And you know what? Those graves in Eretz Yisroel ARE the graves of your and my very close relatives, that is, if you consider yourself Jewish.
You say that they aren’t even Jewish graves? All the more the kiddush Hashem. Israel has to know that this goes beyond religion; this is a moral obligation of a civilized government to preserve the graves of the deceased, even if they are non-Jewish. They are doing what perhaps one would do to dog’s bones (I hope we don’t have any PETA chevra on this forum).
what gilad shalit polrad shalit in polrad shouldn’t be a protest because polrad was a spy shalit is a p.o.w. if you want go davan for them but when the zionists are digging graves we got to protest and scream on top of our lungs stop digging kavrim let’s see what you will say when they will digg your fathers grave
One of the most beautiful things we witnessed at the protest was, when Bibi’s motorcade was en route to the white house, it passed by the ebtire mass of demonstrators with slow speed, he passed blocks and blocks of protesters and saw exactly what he didn’t wish to see, including all his “welcome” signs and banners.
And that was indeed a great kiddush hashem!
alevai the fanatics in israel would behave in a civilized manner such as the people yesterday did
alevai the fanatics in israel would treat israeli police in a human way such as the way they did yesterday
yeah
stop dreaming
Chilul Hashem Is what the Zionists make day and night by fighting with all nation and by persecuting orthodox jews in Israel and by digging graves and acting with utmost pilice brutality against charedim.
Kiddush Hashem is when yidden go out to protest their evil activity.
i was brought up religious, and theres no doubt that what is happening in israel with the graves site, is agiants the torah and jewish law, but question, why arent we postive people ? when israel does something bad, you guys are in washington protesting, what happends when they do something good? when buliding with goverment money yeshiva’s or mikva’s and shuls, or that fact that most of the chardie in israel live off the goverment! if your going to be criticall – wheres the positivity?
you cant only look at the negativity! besides the fact, what benefit do you bring israel ? have you ever helped the country to be so criticall? yes its wrong whats happening a 100 percent! but you dont show any support when the country does something to your benefit ? wheres the ahavas yisroel ? we are jewish and we are a group that no matter if your satmer or bubov or chabad or litvish or morden orthodox or not religious at all , there has to be ahaves yisroel show support in the good times also , when the israeli goverment gave a whole huge block in yerushalayim to a yeshive, there was no protest to honor or thank the goverment?
we have to be postive and have more ahaves yisroel !
read thier sign its not about the graves its about showing the non jews are dis unity
I am starting a Boycott of Crc prodcts and Kj meat let all the people that care about Israel show satmar they have to stop there hatred of Israel
To #11 #12 and all small headers, if you said thad this was a chilul hashem, then I have a good advise for you people, you should buy, a grave place in this city’s like askelon or jaffa, its no problem for you anyway, that your bones will be thrown arrond! Will it bother you? No! This zionist are holly people!! Ah! But yuor grand grand father with the long berd was fanatic! Ha? What do you think? Was it realy a chilul hashem? If you’l say, yes! Then you should know, that every second you live you are making a chilul hashem!!!!
Do a search on google or Lexis/Nexis and see if any major news organization gave this so-called “demonstration” any coverage other than the jewish press….maybe if Satmer ever did somthing constructive for EY they might get some attention. Otherwise, they will be ignored
to all you guys who love to bash the israeli police force there are two sides in every story i have personaly been by protests(hafguneh) in israel and you should see how the protesters act towards the police in such a horrible manor i would love to see you guys act the same way over here in the us try to cross a line which the police dont let you cross why didnt some of you guys it yesterday with the secret service and you would be saying that the israeli police act normally and are more lenient to the protesters if you dont believe me just ask your sons who learn in israel they will tell you all about it “its so much fun to fight with the police” tell em to say the truth ask them if they were there instead of learning
This week’s Torah parsha states a MITZVAH D’ORAISA in BAMIDBAR 33:53 of “Take possession of the land and settle there”. See Ramban to BAMIDBAR 33:53 & Pischei Tshuva 75:6, Shulchan Aruch Evan HaEzer.
Amazingly, “KANOYIM” in CHUTZ L’ARETZ protested against Jews who have been MOSER NEFESH to settle Eretz Yisrael ! In truth the KANOYIM deny any Jewish right to Eretz Yisrael, and they deny any MITZVAH to settle the land, while screaming “Tsiyonim Apikorsim”. These protests encourage Obama to further oppress the Jews of Eretz Yisrael !
In Sanhedrin 102b we learn: “Why did Omri merit kingship (in Eretz Yisrael)? Because he added on a city to Eretz Yisrael.” Omri was one of the most wicked kings, far worse than the so-called “Tsiyonim”. By fulfilling the MITZVAH of YISHUV ERETZ YISRAEL, Omri merited to rule over Eretz Yisrael.
Netanyahu, a “Tsiyoni” Jew, was MOSER NEFESH for Eretz Yisrael, and therefore merits to rule over it. The screaming anti-Zionists will remain in their beloved CHUTZ LA’ARETZ, having accomplished nothing from their protests, while Netanyahu will return to Eretz Yisrael to rule over it.
(For an authentic Torah view, Google the SEFER “Eim HaBanim Smeicha”)
I am ashamed …..
I am ashamed that i did not join these yidden in washington! (and NO, i am NOT satmar)
I am ashamed that while evil israelis are digging up the graves of our nations ancestors …. i have done nothing!
Raboisay! …. in 100 years from now or 500 yrs from now would you like ur graves dug up by ruthless “jewish”!? people??? … i mean would you want you’re grandchildren to atleast stick up for your respect?
anybody who claims this was a chilul hashem has it all wrong! …. so called “jewish” people digging up JEWISH graves is a “Chilul Hashem”
and for all of you who would like to stick up for the israeli regime ….. i’d like to ask you … who’s daas torah do they follow? … if none, then why stick up for them? what makes that state jewish?
#36 torah truth, the gedolim of the previous generation were well aware of what you’re saying, and they still ordered many protests open to the outside world, and todays gedolim and tzadikim that ordered yesterdays protest are also well aware of your concern, thus they still ordered this highly successful protest.
One good idea to avoid such shame and pain for Israel in he future is, they should cease their ugly activities including digging up one cemetery after another, and persecuting frum jews in general. They are the ones bringing this shame upon themselves.
To all zionist defenders; don’t be mixed up with the term “jews”, a jew is one who keeps torah umitzvos, one who doesn’t keep torah may be of “jewish decent”, but can’t call himself jew, and can’t claim to represent jews.
keep it up goooood work!
Surprised on such a beautiful turnout, even 500 people would’ve been considered a lot taking in consideration the weather and travel distance, but looking at the clips I’m just amazed looking at the thousands of attendees, what a great real kidish hashem.
don’t these folks have jobs???
These people are not even Satmar!
Here’s what the Satmar Rav wrote:
השי”ת ירחם שיתעקר מלכות הזדון במהרה ע”י אליהו ומלך המשיח , ולא ע”י האומות ח”ו דאם ניתן רשות למשחית אינו מבחין
1) Now these fools are implicitly calling for the demise of the State. They are not however making the distinction that the Satmar Rebbe made. Thus, they are not Satmar.
2) Most onlookers see this demonstration as a wholesale attack on the State, not on one particular policy of the State. Such demonstrations give fodder for שונאי ישראל. Right now, the Jews in Israel (and elsewhere) are in peril. But these people don’t care- they’re priority is alleged grave desecration. They don’t care about the troubles of their fellow Jews, and they don’t participate in their pain or campaigns to improve their lot. All this while their fellow Jews work tirelessly to defend the image of their brothers in Israel. And what does the Halacha have to say about people who abandon their brothers in time of need?
משנה תורה: הלכות תשובה, ג:כ
הפורש מדרכי ציבור: אף על פי שלא עבר עבירות, אלא נבדל מעדת ישראל ואינו עושה מצוות בכללן ולא נכנס בצרתן ולא מתענה בתעניתן … וכאילו אינו מהן–אין לו חלק לעולם הבא
Ok satmar so no Jewish state means Hamas state try to think about making any protest against them they’ll behead you all .
“when they protest they try to point out to the world that the state was created against the torah and they don’t represtent frum yidden”
And they’d be morons. Because not one onlooker would understand that distinction. Indeed, even though you have corrected cited the Satmar Rav’s shitta, I doubt many in the crowd know it. The Satmar Rav only called for prayer (which itself may be a violation against the שלוש שבועות) – he said there’s nothing else that can be done against Zionism. Such protests are not in line with the SR’s position. But of course, these are extremists who conveniently ignore any moderating elements in the SR’s hashkafa.
Such venomous public protests are open violations of halacha. See the Rambam on the halachos of rebuke, and see the Chazon Ish (I think YD 2:28) on how one goes about rebuking today.
(I know very little. But I’m not impressed with any of these comments which are full of hot air and contain not one word of Torah. And then they claim to speak for Torah!)
Someone better explain to these Neanderthals that, through their actions, they are ensuring a far greater number of Jewish graves in Israel than existed till now.
Satmar does not represent Judaism. Yachid Verabim Halacha Kerabim. It’s one shita, and their are plenty of talmidei Chachamim who disagree with the Shita – Beis Shammai didnt protest because the general population held of Beis Hillel and Satmar is in the minority. This government does not represent Torah Jews, but it can if you moved there and voted. I am against the government in many cases, but its a democracy – and quite frankly, galus in Germany and not moving to Israel despite the Zionists – at least was a haven for Yidden.
Last I checked, Rebbi Akiva thought the NON frum Bar Cochba was Moshiach – he was a Yid even though he didnt keep all the mitzvos. Dont be “holier than thou” – plenty of Frum erliche yidden DONT WEAR A SHTRIEMEL! and are in the army! and keep mitzvos! Hashem loves us because were yidden NOT because we do mitzvos.