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Ask JTF For February 25 Broadcast
Yoel:
Dear Chaim,
Are you familiar with Rabbi Marc Angel of the Spanish-Portugese Synagogue in NYC; he is also the editor of Tradition magazine. Your thoughts on him?
ChaimJr.:
Chaim: You and the JDL were instrumental in freeing Soviet Jews in the 1970's and 80's. I wish you hadn't. I lived in Rego Park for 10 years and can honestly and sadly say that I wish you hadn't. Although they make "good Jews" by and large, they treat their fellow non-Russian-speaking Jews like dreck. Especially if they get into a managerial position in a business like Medicine and healthcare in which I am affiliated, they are deliberately mean and Judenrat/Capo-like toward non-Russian -speaking Jews. Just like Indians and Pakistanis, they swarm in and behave like real Judenrat/capos and have no understanding of fellow Jewish comradery. You should have left them in the gulags where they deserved to remain. They all behave toward me like Anatoly Scharansky did toward you when you asked for his help to make your aliyah. You got what you deserved. I can say, sadly, as a Jew, I can't stand Russian Jews. It is not bigotry; it is once burned, twice burned, three times I don't go near the flame. Why didn't you leave well enough alone?
Yacov Menashe adds that many Russian Jews in Israel act like Russian goyim and think of themselves as Russians but they don't realize that they are the victims of Communism yet they follow the culture that they learned as a result of Communism.
Sarah:
Shalom Chaim :),
Earlier today I was thinking about life. What use are we on this earth? When I was younger I used to ask this question and people used to tell me that life is just test from G-d and if you’re good and pass it then your reward will be heaven. But why does it just stop there. Were we just created in order to spend our lives working and spending, procreating etc. I know you may say that religion is what life is all about but to put it bluntly, I think G-d could pretty well do without us. He afterall is the Greatest so why did he need to create us, watch over us and actually bother sending down revalations.
I wanted to ask you what you make of the world that we live in today, forget about religions, culture and ethnicity. What do you see in todays people, the world, its advancement in technology…how we as people have reached a peak of civilisation?
- Also what do you think of Hasidic Judaism and its overwhelming amount of Hasidic worship; their untraditional ascriptions of infallibility and their idea that their leaders worked miracles. This in comparasion to the jewish reform or so called enlightment that took place in the late 18th century. Why are there so many sects?
Thank you and I wish you the best of health.
judeanoncapta:
Dear Chaim,
Why do you think Rabbi Kahane chose to get his Semicha from a Chareidi yeshiva like the Mir instead of a Dati Leumi Yeshiva? Did he ever tell you?
Ok second question.
You have said multiple times that we should build the Temple ourselves. Yet the RambaM says clearly in chapter 11 of hilchot melachim that the rebuilding of the Temple is one of the things that Moshiach must do. Is there another source that disagrees with the RambaM, please cite it and tell me also if Rav Kahane held the same shitah as you. I have never heard him articulate this idea.
Thank you Chaim all the best. Kol Tuv.
Christian Zionist:
Chaim,
In one old JTF website I read that your visited a Serbian Orthodox Church when that animal Clinton was bombing Yugoslavia to express solidarity. Can you tell us more about that? How did they receive you? What was their reaction?
Thanks!
Christian Zionist
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