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Gafni Offers Explanations of Anti-chareidi Incitement Rabbi Gafni offered two explanations for the current anti-chareidi campaign. "One, because more and more segments of the population are drawing closer to the chareidi public, are observing mitzvas and Jewish traditions, more than ever before. The second reason is that we are building a coalition with the Right and with Netanyahu. The central session of the Fourth Chinuch Conference, which will bring together yeshiva mashgichim, principals and other educators at Nir Etzion Hotel next week, will address the impact of "chareidi" publications (known in Hebrew as "weeklies") that have a destructive effect on children, teens and even adult readers.
The unbridled attacks against the chareidi public, led by the media, a number of politicians and various other figures with vested interests, have not relented. This week a television news crew went to Beit Shemesh to provoke local residents and sully the chareidi image in the eyes of the general population.
The anti-chareidi incitement campaign currently being waged in Eretz Yisroel has left its mark in Bnei Brak as well.
Tel Aviv Police arrested a young man who sprayed graffiti on a bus stop in the center of the city. The youth allegedly went to Rechov Chazon Ish in the middle of the night and spray-painted messages that echo media reports against the chareidi public and Mehadrin bus lines.
Since the secret and foundation of the Torah world and the community of yerei'im is in a life of Torah and yir'oh al taharas hakodesh, including a complete separation from all the life and concepts of the chiloni world who reject the yoke of Torah, therefore it is necessary to protest and to warn against all sorts of attempts from the outside to damage the pure cruse of oil,...
Rabbenu HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv shlita issued pointed remarks this week against dangerous developments that threaten to lay a hand on the "jar of pure oil" by eroding the walls that separate the chareidi public from the general population and protect it from the deleterious effects of secular life and sinful culture.
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