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Students hurled tables and book holders on Wednesday at Bnei Brak's flagship Lithuanian-haredi Ponevezh Yeshiva as part of a long-running feud between two rival factions.
The brawl raged on throughout the morning and only ended when police detained the main instigators after being called to the scene. Three students were injured after being sprayed by tear gas
The quarrel was part of a longstanding dispute between the two factions over control of the yeshiva and the division of its territory. The supporters of Rabbi Shmuel Markovitz on the one hand, nicknamed the "haters," and Rabbi Eliezer Kahaneman's rival camp, called the "terrorists" have long been at loggerheads and tensions frequently lead to violence.
The flagship Yeshiva of Lithuanian haredi Judaism has been roiled by the power struggle between the two for over twenty years, and both sides observe an uneasy status quo, in which campus space in Bnei Brak is evenly divided between the two factions.
Ponovezh head Rabbi Berel Povarsky pleaded for calm after the violence and said that the students should concentrate on studying Torah. "The evil inclination wants to interrupt our learning of Torah during the month of Elul in the most important yeshiva in the world, our yeshiva," he said.
A similar brawl took place a year ago after one faction
appropriated a new classroom for themselves, upsetting the delicate status quo. Students from the other faction subsequently defaced the classroom with derogatory graffiti.
The brawl broke out in the Yeshiva dining hall soon after, when a student from the "haters" faction shoved a supporter of the "terrorist" faction. The fight quickly spread to other parts of the campus, as students hurled furniture, deployed tear gas, and set off fire extinguishers.
Ponovezh is one of the top institutions in the haredi world, and the ongoing internal strife has been a black eye for the community.
4 comments:
I love the beginning of the first video, where one idiot pushes another idiot but makes sure his Yarmulka doesn't fall off, because walking daled amos without a Yarmulka is ossur. Everything else is ok. I wonder where the older idiots are, the ones with the white beards who could be guiding the little idiots. Maybe with prostitutes or little children.
Satmaritis is a disease ...
Some are tinged by it ...
Some are afflicted with it ...
Scary to think or believe that they are NOT taking drugs if this is their typical reaction to anything or anyone they resent!
these ignorant savage animals need to have their military deferments revoked immediately,and inducted into ZAHAL, and sent to fight the Arab enemy instead of their fellow Jew
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