French Jewry, a new crisis? (Guest Post)

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Hirshel:

 I'm asking a question here, not necessarily jumping to conclusions. I'm not sure about this but it's my gut feeling that some new "issue" is starting to be created under our very noses. It's called chesed Kalev, for French Jews going to Israel. Now that חסד לאברהם - founded by the late Skulener Rebbe, zt"l, איז שוין עליו השלום, we're left with kind of a lull, or a void, in the business. People have time and nothing to do with it. Now I see a new consortium of charlatans are ringing a bell on France. That the French Jews who are making aliya are going to go frei because they're going to go to secular or Religious-lite schools in Israel. It also gets an anti Zionist flavor, which gets the zealots on board; that the Zionists will not let you go to frum mosdos in Israel. As if the Frenchies are semi invalids coming from a non developed African country with pea brains that can't make decisions regarding their kids' schooling.  I see R' Zalman Leib Teitelbaum from the more-extreme Satmar faction signed on to this, not his brother who hates this baloney, plus he has no love for Skulen. וד"ל.  The Hamodia quotes Reb Chaim Kanievsky who supposedly tells people to rather go to official secular mosdos than mamlachti Dati! What a statement!!  Going to secular vs. a place where you say Krias Shema and put on Tefillin! The old juvenile Bnei Berak talk. It must have been taken out of context. They claim that the Kalever Rebbe, may he have a רפו"ש, placed 4,000 kids in to Charedi mosdos. That's almost as big as the whole skverer chasidus!!

Are people so gullible ????

A strange interview with a French anti-Zionist from Aix-les-Bains (Yiddish)

Ya gotta feel for the Natruna people, those "Neturei Karta Lite" who would love for the State of Israel to go away, but they keep from publicly meeting with the Ahmedenijads of the world and waving Palestinian flags. So they have no real way of doing away with the State, היל"ת. So they put ads in papers "distancing" themselves from Israel and the IDF. nu, nu. They also have a telephone line where you can call in and hear speeches and interviews that speak of the evils of Israel and teach you VaYoel Moshe. In short it's a Satmar front group. Here they found a Jew in France who speaks Yiddish with a French accent and who tells people that it's all good in France. No cause for concern. There's even a spiritual renaissance going on among French Jews. France has a rich history of Jewish growth and will continue to be a haven for Jews. So no need to panic and make aliya. Besides, we all know that it's MORE dangerous there... Maybe he's a Novardikker and sees the good in everything. Or maybe his love for France is מעבירו על דעתו. I  wonder why he won't give his real/full name...

Listen here, if you dare, and if you can stomach the dripping KJ Yiddish...

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