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THE JEWISH PRESS

Friday, March 5, 2010

Feiglin Vows Victory At Dinner By Elliot Resnick Jewish Press Staff Reporter

“The most elementary form of kiddush Hashem would be to have a medinah that stands for emunah baShem,â€? says Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz, one of the general editors of ArtScroll’s popular Shas, on a video shown at the dinner. “That’s what Avraham Avinu was, and that’s what klal Yisrael is supposed to be.â€? Frustrated with the failed campaign to stop thenPrime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement plan in 2005, Rabbi Malinowitz said he realized at the time that “everything’s a waste of time‌. Moshe [Feiglin] is right. All the energies have to be focused to the quiet revolution‌of ruling the country and bringing Jewish values into Eretz Yisrael.â€? Six Israelis on the video – ranging from a haredi rabbi to a former left-wing activist who sat in prison for seven months for illegally meeting with PLO leader Yasir Arafat – recount their discovery and embrace of Manhigut Yehudit’s philosophy. “There isn’t a group in Israel today except Manhigut Yehudit... that can make [this] video‌, a video that unites every single kind of Jew together,â€? said Shmuel Sackett, Manhigut Yehudit’s international director. Although Feiglin largely spoke about ideological issues, he did not neglect the practical. Israel’s economy is currently strong and relatively few Jews have been killed recently, but Feiglin said the calm is misleading. “It reminds me of a joke. It’s like somebody fall[ing] from the Empire State Building and at the 20th 7KH <RP 7HĂ€OODK RI 7DOPLGHL &KDFKDPLP Hamesugal floor, somebody opens a Le'Yeshuos Ve'Hatzlachos ZLOO WDNH SODFH RQ (UHY 5RVK &KRGHVK 1LVVDQ window and asks him, ‘How is it going?’ and the LQ DOO WKH EUDQFKHV RI $WHUHW 6KORPR .ROOHOLP DOO DFURVV ,VUDHO guy that’s falling says, ‘Well, so far everything is okay.’ â€? Only in the last few years, Feiglin reminded the crowd, have Israeli ministers grown scared to travel abroad lest they be arrested and tried as international criminals. Only recently has it become fashionable to question Israel’s very legitimacy as an independent nation-state. According to Feiglin, as long as Israel hides from its true destiny and attempts to become an ordinary, normal nation, H H M M n Rav Rav Maran Ha’Gaon hlita Miche a’Gaon Ha’Gadol Shlita Rav S a’Gaon Ha’Gadol hlita Aharon aran Ha’Gao man Shlita Rav Yo aran Ha’Gaon v Shlita its situation will deteriChaim Kanievsky S l Yehuda Lefkovitz hmuel Auerbach S sef Shalom Elyashi Yehuda Leib Stein orate. In contrast to the aspirations of Israel’s ruling elite, Feiglin declared Manhigut Yehudit’s goal to be the creation of “a Jewish state that is a light to the nations.â€? Said Nahum Gordon, the dinner’s guest of honor, in comments to The Jewish Press: “Israel is sorely in need of [ManHa’Mekubal The Admor Rav Ha’Gaon ha’Gadol hlita Rav M Ha’Gaon higut Yehudit’s] influa R t a i t a l i l G v Zundel Kroizer Sh of Modzitz Shlita ershon Edelstein S ordechai Gross Sh ence and control‌. Since 1948, we have not had a Call today and donate $180 to support the largest chain of Torah institutes in Israel, Jewish government that conducts a medinah for led by Maran Ha'Gaon Rav Aharon Yehuda Leib Steinman Shlita, Jews as Jews. We’re alincluding Talmudei Torah, Yeshivas and Kollelim with more than 3500 students ways looking to curry favor with the nations of the world, and the truth of the matter is they will hate us no matter what we do.â€? Gordon, an attorney from Woodmere, Long 60

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Despite setbacks last year in his bid for a Knesset seat, Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Manhigut Yehudit movement, told The Jewish Press on Monday that his group will ultimately achieve victory. “We don’t know how long it’s going to take. It can take a few months, it can take a few years, but we’re going to win.� Approximately 400 supporters gathered at the Legends Suite Club in the new Yankee Stadium Monday evening for Manhigut Yehudit’s eighth annual dinner. Manhigut Yehudit, the largest faction within the Likud party’s central committee, aims to lead Israel and – as their motto states – transform “the State of the Jews into the Jewish State.� Feiglin told the Yankee Stadium crowd that Israel must abandon its desire to be “the Singapore of the Middle East� (President Shimon Peres) or “a state of all its citizens� (Aharon Barak, former president of Israel’s Supreme Court) and aspire instead to be a state that, in the words of the Aleinu prayer, “perfects the world in the kingdom of the Almighty.�

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