Jerusalem buried its dead on Monday after the Ramot Junction massacre.
The first hard fact?
A Charedi soldier — yes, an actual black-kippah combatant with a rifle —helped stop the terrorists!
He didn’t ask for a donor dinner, a musical kumzitz, or a luxury suite. He just ran toward gunfire.
Meanwhile, one hour south, another kind of "running" was taking place:
Running to Mitzpeh Rimon to Beresheet a Five Star Hotel were the patrons of Keren Olam HaTorah (KOH) who were enjoying their annual retreat — with a heady mix of Torah giants, like Rabbi Asher Weiss, Chief Rabbi David Yosef, and former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau plus five-star catering, and a musical lineup that could headline Madison Square Garden.
He didn’t ask for a donor dinner, a musical kumzitz, or a luxury suite. He just ran toward gunfire.
Meanwhile, one hour south, another kind of "running" was taking place:
Running to Mitzpeh Rimon to Beresheet a Five Star Hotel were the patrons of Keren Olam HaTorah (KOH) who were enjoying their annual retreat — with a heady mix of Torah giants, like Rabbi Asher Weiss, Chief Rabbi David Yosef, and former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau plus five-star catering, and a musical lineup that could headline Madison Square Garden.
Ishay Ribo! Yonatan Razel! Shulem Lemmer! Zanvil Weinberger!
All live, all on the same stage.
The program was simple:
Convince billionaires that funding yeshiva stipends is more urgent than, say, armor for IDF jeeps.
The irony writes itself:
In Jerusalem: Charedi soldier, kippah on head, rifle in hand, saving Jewish lives.
In Mitzpe Ramon: Charedi donors, hats off, wallets open, saving the all-you-can-eat dessert buffet.
Documents show KOH now operates as the unofficial welfare ministry for draft-age yeshiva students.
Forget the old envelope under the table; now it’s Excel sheets, signed declarations, and direct bank transfers. It’s not a charity — it’s PayPal for non-service.
And who’s bankrolling it?
The Karfunkels, Rubie Schron, Mirilashvili, Safra, Louie Scheiner, Khezrie, Isaac Rokowsky, Wolfson — titans of finance and real estate. Men who can build skyscrapers, run banks, and buy media channels…
but apparently can’t buy a clue that maybe, just maybe, soldiers also need support.
Of course, defenders of the system argue that “Torah protects.” Fine. No one disputes the spiritual power of Torah. But at Ramot Junction, A Charedi soldier tackled the terrorist in uniform, with a gun on a Monday.
And here’s the cosmic joke:
The IDF already provides Charedi tracks — kosher food, modesty rules, rabbis on call.
And Lo and Behold, the soldier who fought in Jerusalem didn’t lose his Yiddishkeit. He became the living definition of Ahavat Yisrael.
Meanwhile, donors sipping wine in Mitzpe Ramon toast “Torah protection” while mothers in Jerusalem toast their sons with bitter tears.
The choice for these philanthropists is simple:
Keep bankrolling permanent draft-dodging,
or
redirect that largesse toward frameworks that unify rather than divide.
Fund Torah and service.
Convince billionaires that funding yeshiva stipends is more urgent than, say, armor for IDF jeeps.
The irony writes itself:
In Jerusalem: Charedi soldier, kippah on head, rifle in hand, saving Jewish lives.
In Mitzpe Ramon: Charedi donors, hats off, wallets open, saving the all-you-can-eat dessert buffet.
Documents show KOH now operates as the unofficial welfare ministry for draft-age yeshiva students.
Forget the old envelope under the table; now it’s Excel sheets, signed declarations, and direct bank transfers. It’s not a charity — it’s PayPal for non-service.
And who’s bankrolling it?
The Karfunkels, Rubie Schron, Mirilashvili, Safra, Louie Scheiner, Khezrie, Isaac Rokowsky, Wolfson — titans of finance and real estate. Men who can build skyscrapers, run banks, and buy media channels…
but apparently can’t buy a clue that maybe, just maybe, soldiers also need support.
Of course, defenders of the system argue that “Torah protects.” Fine. No one disputes the spiritual power of Torah. But at Ramot Junction, A Charedi soldier tackled the terrorist in uniform, with a gun on a Monday.
And here’s the cosmic joke:
The IDF already provides Charedi tracks — kosher food, modesty rules, rabbis on call.
And Lo and Behold, the soldier who fought in Jerusalem didn’t lose his Yiddishkeit. He became the living definition of Ahavat Yisrael.
Meanwhile, donors sipping wine in Mitzpe Ramon toast “Torah protection” while mothers in Jerusalem toast their sons with bitter tears.
The choice for these philanthropists is simple:
Keep bankrolling permanent draft-dodging,
or
redirect that largesse toward frameworks that unify rather than divide.
Fund Torah and service.
Fund stipends for reservists’ families.
Fund therapy for traumatized kids. Fund actual love of Israel.
Because Jerusalem already showed us the image that matters:
a Charedi soldier, running toward bullets, not buffets.
Because Jerusalem already showed us the image that matters:
a Charedi soldier, running toward bullets, not buffets.
18 comments:
Meanwhile Chareidi new sources report that it was an avreich that stopped the terrorists, but he was assisted by an off duty soldier.
הנני מוחה מחאה נמרצת על כך ששמו של ברוך Jeremias הושמט מרשימת הזוללים וסובאים. הוא אחד מן החבורה ממש.
Boruch Hashem, there are people who care about Torah. If you care about soldiers , why don't you make a fundraising extravaganza for them?
4:55
Everyone cares about Torah, but few Torah Learners care about the Soldiers!
And they should all be drafted and you are a liar, because you are not a female, even though I see that you identify as one now, and you are not a mother because a male has no uterus! No mother of a soldier would write the utter nonsense that you just wrote!
DIN is even more dishonest than previously known! As DIN is aware, the Jerusalem shindig is heavily represented by many modern rich dudes whom he conveniently doesn’t name. They certainly throw funds in the direction of the soldiers but ALSO want to support FULL TIME LOMDEI TORAH. DIN’s perverse fantasy of shlepping the horrevers away from their Gemaras to the IMMODEST seviva in IDF is going to go up in big smoke that will make the Qatar villa atmosphere look like a little puff fin a tzigarettl. Today’s major event is also drowning out DIN’s anti-yeshivos propaganda blitz which must be making him stir crazy!
Kiryas Yoilie Uganda
I see that you didn't read the article! I mentioned all except for Jeremias!
I happen to know the donors very very well, one I learned with in Yeshiva with and one is a good friend of mine ..today ..hayoim! I attended all his simchos!
No one is "shlepping the horrevers away from their Gemaras " we are all learning, and the IDF has battalions that have great "sevivas "
Proof? is the guy who shot the Terrorists, he is an IDF soldier and a "Ben Torah"
All your "yeshiva reid" doesn't cover your half-truths and whole lies!
After today's successful Zionist event, we are going to put on our gartels and say "Hinenie Mezuman" to actively start drafting the "leidegeiers" and take away all their benefits!
How do you know that your 'dream donors' listed as: The Karfunkels, Rubie Schron, Mirilashvili, Safra, Louie Scheiner, Khezrie, Isaac Rokowsky, Wolfson, do not donate to the same millions to Tzaha'l causes ??
You see one side of the coin and you ignore the other side so you that can publish your 'EXTRA, EXTRA, EXTRA SCREAMING HEADLINES.
Keep up the 'good' work especially now two weeks before you hadin.
9:55
The "yom hadin" applies to you too, so stop with your half-truths and all lies!
instead of shooting off your mouth with dumb mouth go read the article that I so brilliantly wrote.
now lets read a final psak of the Rambam:
כל המשים על ליבו שיעסוק בתורה ולא יעשה מלאכה ויתפרנס מן הצדקה הרי זה חילול את השם וביזה את התורה וכיבה מאור הדת וגרם רעה לעצמו ונטל חייו מן עולם הבא
Uganda is in Africa actually as your icon Herzl knew teef teef.
You grunt about half truths which is ironic when all you’ve got is a little grain of truth drowning in a big hodgepodge of sheker vechozov. You still refuse to name the many Sfardim & other mega donors who the Keren picked up who are very Tzioni but still want to keep perpetuating the yeshiva models of R’ Chaim Volozhiner for the Litvisher (also since adopted by Sfardim) & Pressburg / Lublin that the Chassidishe adopted - all minus your sick meshugass of forcing them into the tumas avir of IDF. You refuse because you are terrified that anyone find out how the new greatly expanded group of billionaires blows a massive hole in your krumma shitos. And it’s absurd how you’re in denial that there were TWO heroes who took down yesterday’s terrorists - one of them LEARNING FULL TIME who refuses to enlist in IDF
Know it all
Most of your rant is a bunch of dribble from a child who should not be on the internet! You sound totally deranged, and no one knows what you are talking about!
as an example
You scribble
"still want to keep perpetuating the yeshiva models of R’ Chaim Volozhiner for the Litvisher (also since adopted by Sfardim) & Pressburg / Lublin that the Chassidishe adopted -"
This must be a joke,
"perpetuating" what?
The Volozhiner Yeshiva at its height had a maximum of 300 bochrim that's less than two grades in any girls school in Beit Shemesh!
BTW the bochur who helped take down the terrorist carried a gun and told Kan11 that he is planning on enlisting next month, so much for your lies!
Volozhin became the Avi Hayeshivos. And this choshuva movement aint about to be demolished by a nobody pipsqueak like you from his lonely blog perch
Volozhin collapsed because of internal family fights and then blamed it on the Russian government, uch and vei if this became the Avi Hayeshivos!
I am not trying to "demolish it" it was already demolished because of petty family quarrels! And I repeat, in its peak, it didn't have more talmidim than two grades in any girl school in Beit Shemesh!
You evade the whole point that Volozhin in its heyday became the model for all viable non-Chassidish yeshivos. It doesn’t matter that it eventually closed. You would be out of business if you didn’t evade every single one of the many shtark pirchos on your blabberei
9:31
I'm not "evading anything." Volozhin collapsed because of Kavod and family infighting, so the "heyday" Yeshiva was full of machlokas and they destroyed it themselves! The Netziv is turning in his grave!
DIN, how ignorant can you be? Volozhin was closed by the Czarist Russian government, everyone knows that. Cease and desist posting libels and untruths.
Shut up
"Everyone?"
"everyone knows?'
The facts are real and cannot be changed!
Volozon was closed up and collapsed like a wet cardboard box because of family infighting!
The "reid" that they "officially" put out was that they were closing up because the "Russians wanted them to institute secular studies."
Today they teach this lie to the naive cluless "yeshivaleit" but their own R"Y know the truth!
Chaim Grada a talmid of Novaredok wrote a book in Yiddish, called "The Yeshiva" in which he describes the internal war in Volozhin!
But you can believe the BS from your dumb naive yeshivaniks
To wake up
The Czarist Government did not shut it down; they shut it down themselves! Why they shut it down is a debate but it looks like that the Yeshiva was collapsing way before the Russian Edict of having secular studies taught in all schools!
Wake
This "Russian Government shutting down the school is actually a modern revision of history of the Volozhin Yeshivah! They shut it down themselves because they were against the R"Y that will go unnamed and they felt that someone more "rauh" should be R"y!
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