Mea Shearim – Thousands of Charedim protested in Jerusalem Thursday evening to express their displeasure with summer events planned by the local municipality.
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According to the organizers, the summer events held in the capital are inappropriate for a holy city, and in some cases even lead to Shabbat desecration. The protest was planned by the ultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit faction.
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great! There’ll be more room at next weeks Beer Festival!
while i don’t subscribe to this sect of judaism, I would like to extend my appreciation for this sort of peaceful protest.
respectable. i don’t really get it, but fully support their right to practice their faith as they see fit, and to have their children and community see them standing up for their own morals and values. thank you, rabbis for not rounding up your followers on facebook to burn and loot shops all over israel to make your point. show this in tottenham.
They don’t own the city and they can’t rule the city. For sure the events are not taking place in Meah Sharim. Let them stay in their neiborhoods and mind their own business.
I hope they accomplish something, but I’m not optimistic.
as long as they are in a situation to tell others what to do with their lifes they are right why shouldnt they they are free to dictate of course no one has to listen to them but as soon as they act upon their dictates with violence then they should be stoped
Ah…What a Kiddush Hashem! אז עס טוט וויי שרייט מען
the only influence we have on secular jews is by leaving our lives in way that can respect us. i don’t think that a protest is going to change their minds
I didn’t see a single woman protesting…..
If these protesters would all vote on election day, they would have more influence on the goings-on in the holy city.
misery loves company…i think that these Mea Shearim people are very depressed..I’ve spent and continue to spend considerable time in Mea Shearim on a regular basis, and have come to the conclusion that although there are certain niceties within this community, such as soup kitchens etc., i believe that people here are very depressed, and also i believe that their happiness comes from playing the victim role, us against the world mentality.. .. If you would put them in a perfect world they would invent themselves into victims in order to feel alive…
If someone is mechallel Shabbos in public and we don’t protest then maybe we’ll be held accountable. I think this protest is a very commendable thing. Who cares if they all wear black? What is scary about it? I am frum and Yeshivish, not Chasidish, yet I would also attend this protest if I lived in Eretz Yisroel. (By the way being a Yerushalmi and dressing that way doesn’t necessarily make them Chassidish.It is the mode of dress that the Yerushalmim wear)
It has been reported elsewhere in the charedi-oriented media that on Tuesday of this week, on Tisha B’av, Neturei Karta condemned Israeli charedi leader Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman shlita, because of Rabbi Steinman’s support for the formation of a charedi Israeli army unit. As they did so, they called out ‘yemach shemo’, may his name be blotted out, an insult reserved for great enemies of the Jewish people like Adolph Hitler.
Saying ‘yemach shemo’ about a living person means that you have in essence put a target on his back and called for people to kill him or God to take him away.
These are the abject depths of immorality and lack of ‘musar’ to which Neturei Karta have sunk. Not in my name!
I guess if ui don’t work, not allowed to play ball and r bored stiff, u gotta have some outlet, hence….
Firstly, Frum people protest against things that are against the Torah to show hashem that they hate things that he hates. If it actually helps or not is not the point of the protest. It is to show Hashem that while people are bringing the beach and all it’s immodesty to the holy city of Yerushalaim, we are not just sitting idle and doing nothing.
The fact that people have leaders and follow them is the way of the Jewish nation from Moshe Rabbainu and down and when they didn’t listen is when there was trouble.
There are goups that don’t have leaders now and that is why they are doing things that are causing a Chilul Hashem – won’t name names.
This is what you call “a protest of hundred men”? It seems that they are instead some thousands.
Yasher Koach for the protest. Unfortunately, by reading the above comments, most yidden seem not to care anymore about the kedusho of Ir HaKodesh!
The crowds in the pictures look really impressive! Wish I was there.