Ami Doubles Down On It's Outragious Lie That the Israeli Government Wants to Close Down Rav Zamir Cohen's Yeshiva Because It is Doing Kiruv

 

On Dec 25 we reported the unmitigated lie that Yitzchok Frankfurter the publisher of Ami Magazine propagated. In that article Yitzy interviews Rav Zamir Cohen the rabbi of a Kiruv organization called "Hitabroot." An organization that gets funds from the Zionist State of Israel.

Rabbi Cohen had opened a "kiruv" Yeshiva in Ashdod and he was crying to Yitzy that the Israeli Government wants to shut down his school, because they are "afraid that this school would attract Chilonim and make them frum."

If you read the interview you would have learned that this new school is modeled after the Finnish School system, and is not a yeshiva at all and would not teach Torah but would have some tefillah and would have "Yahadut" as a subject in it's curriculum. 

We explained then that "Yahadut" is not related to Torah at all but is a code word for Jewish philosophy which includes Zionism.

So why would the Government want to close him down?

I don't know but what I do know is that  this explanation that Rav Cohen gave is a complete fabrication and a distortion of reality. 

The government like every government has rules and regulations that a school must follow in order to get their permit. Rabi Cohen probably decided that he was not going to follow the rules and so they yanked his license and so he ran to the fool, Frankfurter with his lies.

The Zionist government supports and allows kiruv schools to exist, schools such Ohr Samaich, Shuvu schools, Chinuch Atzmai schools, Rav Yitzchok Dovid Grossman's schools in Migadal Haemek etc. So why would they be afraid of Rabbi Cohen's schools that doesn't have Torah learning in their curriculum at all?

Ami must have gotten hundreds of Letters to the Editor expressing shock at these blatant lies, and some of those emails indicated to The Frank that they don't appreciate being made fools of, so Rabbi Cohen had no choice and sent his lap dog, Isaac Fried, the Chairman of the board of Hitabroot to write a letter to Ami to calm Ami readers (see above letter), down a bit.

But all this fool did was make matters worse, because he did admit in a small paragraph above the highlighted paragraph, that the government of Israel has no issues with the other Kiruv Schools that actually teach Torah as their main subject.

I highlighted the paragraph where he states unequivocally that the school follows the Finnish School system. It doesn't follow our holy mesorah at all.

So why is the government afraid of his secular school? Because they will mumble some brachos in the morning? My own wife teaches in a secular Zionist Public School, and all children have 15 minutes in the morning to pray.

But I do have to give credit when credit is do, in this week's issue he gives the Walder Story some space.