The entire chareidi community, particularly the Torah world,
is shocked by continued attempts by the organizational
leadership of the Eida Chareidis to hush demands from the
Torah and yeshiva world to put an end to the campaign of
defamation and incitement against maranan verabonon
gedolei Torah shlita. After the Eida Chareidis'
organizational leadership persuaded a number of rabbonim to
sign a letter backing the attacks on the leadership of the
Torah and yeshiva world, a position statement filled with
lies and false charges was disseminated and even printed in
the Eida Chareidis official publication.
Notably some Eida Chareidis rabbonim refrained from signing
the letter and some of those who did sign told Yated
Ne'eman that the organizational leadership of the Eida
Chareidis had informed them refusal to sign would affect
their standing.
According to reliable sources in the Eida Chareidis the
organizational leadership has been waging a prolonged war
against the yeshiva world, and at internal meetings calls
have been issued to sever all ties between the Eida Chareidis
and the Torah and yeshiva world and its leaders, maranan
verabonon, despite the fact that some of the children of
Eida Chareidis heads attend yeshivas and other Torah
institutions under the leadership of maranan
verabonon.
A committee set up by leading rabbonim and activists to
handle the matter demanded a condemnation of recent acts of
hooliganism in Jerusalem and dishonorable conduct toward
Torah leaders. Several Eida Chareidis dayanim joined
the demand as well, voicing strong objections to the conduct
of a certain group of Eida Chareidis supporters in Jerusalem
as well as the conduct of organizers within the Eida
Chareidis itself. The committee was informed of the type of
pressure applied against the rabbonim who refused to comply
with the dictates of figures seeking to control the Eida
Chareidis.
In response to the demand members of the Eida Chareidis
Beis Din convened a meeting to discuss how to handle
and publicize the matter, but organizational leaders managed
to convince them to pass the decision onto the Eida Chareidis
Executive Committee. According to sources certain activists
at this meeting spoke impudently and disparagingly about
maranan verabonon and even against Eida Chareidis
rabbonim who sought to stop the campaign by a violent group
in Jerusalem.
During the meeting other figures hostile toward the Torah and
yeshiva world accused maranan verabonon, as well as
their organ Yated Ne'eman, of supporting the Education
Ministry's Core Curriculum Program, though both Maran HaRav
Yosef Sholom Eliashiv and HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman
have spoken out strongly against any such attempts to
interfere with matters of curriculum in chareidi
institutions.
At the end of the meeting members of the Eida Chareidis'
organizational leadership drafted libelous notices that were
posted in the streets, published in a recent edition of the
Eida Chareidis' official organ along with an editorial
supporting the publication of these libelous statements and
even placed prominently in foreign newspapers.
