Continued Incarceration of Meir Ettinger, Immoral Administrative Orders in Israel against Jewish Hilltop Youths, Lobbying Rabbanim, Please Lobby the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah to get involved and not to be passive!

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The following was sent to many Rabbanim a few days ago right before the Moetzet meeting in the hope that this topic would generate  awareness and the subject be raised and discussed at the Moetzet meeting. 

Rabbi Mordechai Tendler writes letter on behalf of Meir Ettinger!!! Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah Meeting today 4 Nissan 5776. Rabbanim called upon to make a Statement to Free Meir Ettinger from Jail under immoral Administrative Detention Orders

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/04/rabbi-mordechai-tendler-writes-letter.html

Unfortunately, Rabbi Feldman did not bring the matter up at the Moetzet meeting. We don't know why not. 

We believe that when other Rabbanim and regular Baal Baatim lobby members of the MGH (Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah) it will encourage them to take a more active role rather than just allow events to unfold in a negative sense, with  the continued GOI (Government of Israel)  harassment against fellow Jews.  This harassment would never happen if there was a strong outcry of opposition. Protest would surely be a strong deterrent of these practices if  thousands of caring Jews would follow MGH's lead.

Lichvod HaRav, and Community Leader, amv"sh

If seeing our brothers incarcerated without charges and without a fair trial based on trumped up allegations by Shabak bothers you, please write a public letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu.  If you carry any influence among fellow Rabbi's  or among your congregants, please encourage public letters to Prime Minister Netanyahu to stop immoral Administrative detention orders.  This  has enabled the fabrication  of false charges by Shabak and gave the Israeli Judiciary the legal authority  to torture innocent Jews into forced confessions of the Duma arson (Elisha Odess and Amiram ben Oliel). Demand an open and fair investigation by an objective source other than the Defense and Judiciary investigating itself.  Administrative Detention and Orders violates basic human rights. Either Israel tries Meir Ettinger or frees him. The same with the others.  Let us collectively protest  Administrative Detention especially on Jewish Youth with absolutely no solid family history or evidence of terror activity.  Allegations by Shabak alone should not be sufficient to arrest them as it may be politically motivated. Arabs as well should have fair and due process of  the law.  In most situations there is clear documentation,video  etc. that replays the terror act that incriminates the suspect.   Suspects must have the right to an attorney  protecting their fundamental and basic civil rights and a fair trial.  

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Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Fwd: BH Lerner Drops Case Against Rachmuth Family - Legal Bullying to Silence Speech about Legitimate Concerns of anti-Semitic Tendencies Backfires! Our Next Battle?... How about Brooklyn Park Slope Food Coop !!!!

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Dear Fellow Activists....May we go MeChayil El Chayil. from Strength to Strength.

Thank you Richard Allen for keeping us in the loop. By our letter writing, sending out emails, using social media etc. we B"H were successful to help the Rachmuth Family face their bullies head on.  This gave them the inner strength to stand up for Israel and not cave into submission by those who punitively were out to discredit the Rachmuth's. The Rachmuth's were targeted because they exposed Lerner's anti Israel, pro BDS support that was embedded in their institution, their staff and curriculum.  Being that Lerner is a Jewish Institution they probably thought they could get away with it beyond reproach.  Sadly to say, as we see with Bernie Sanders and Simone Zimmerman his latest Jewish Liason, being Jewish does not necessarily translate into being Pro Israel and pro Jewish.  Sometimes Jews are useful idiots for our enemies with short term gains and long term betrayal to their people.  

May we continue to build on this victory to fight the next anti Israel BDS battle :
This leads us to a discussion to a current battle between Brooklyn Park Slope Food Coop and 4 of its long standing members recently suspended by the Park Slope DC (Disciplinary Committee) because they dared to disrupt a false, offensive, anti-semitic and anti-Zionist BDS presentation at the Park Slope General Meeting on April, 2015.

However, in this ongoing legal battle, with G-d's help, may they stand strong, unapologetic, just like the Rachmuth's in spite of their suspension and in spite of those who benefit from the Coop applying all kinds of personal and public pressure. This will not silence their speech and their voice that expresses outrage and legitimate concerns of an anti-Semitic bias of the Park Slope Food Coop.  This bias against Israel is clearly evident in the Park Slope Newspaper publication Lineswaiter and in the Park Slope Food Coop Reading Series, Wordsprouts. Has Lineswaiter ever featured Judea and Samaria products or spoke of Judea and Samaria Organic Farming?  Has Wordsprouts ever featured a series on the Shemittah, Sabbatical year, once in 7 years when the Land of Israel, Judea and Samaria inclusive within Israel's Biblical borders, is let to lie fallow? This is a clear demonstration that the entire Land belongs to G-d (not to Palestinians and not even to the Jewish Farmer).  Worsprouts Reading Series have featured a pro Islamic Bias.  Those that decide the Agenda of the Coop have taken over the will of its membership infiltrated by BDS  rather than the Agenda of the original members and the majority  of the Coop members which is a love for Organic Food and a healthy lifestyle much more in line with the values of the Jewish Settlers living in Judea and Samaria than the hate filled agenda and education of the Palestinians out for the destruction of Israel. . 

Being thrown out of Park Slope Food Coop - BDS vs BSD http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/11/being-thrown-out-of-park-slope-food.html

Brooklyn Park Slope Food Coop in the News Again! ! 4 Long Standing Pro Israel Members of Park Slope Food Coop get suspended for protesting BDS Agenda Item. Time to Sue the Park Slope Food Coop for defamation, slander libel, lies and falsehoods. Time to represent Organic Farmers and Business in Judea and Samaria!!! Time and stand up to Anti-Israel BDS Agendas

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/04/brooklyn-park-slope-food-coop-in-news.html

Martin Ettlinger. An Insider Perspective of The Park Slope Fascist Coop. http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/04/martin-ettlinger-insider-perspective-of.html

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From: Richard Allen <rallen@acbi.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:40 PM
Subject: Fwd: Lerner Drops Case - ADMITS DEFEAT!!
To:

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From: Sloan Rachmuth
Date: April 14, 2016 at 1:22:10 PM
Subject: Lerner Drops Case - ADMITS DEFEAT!!
Reply-To: Sloan Rachmuth

We are pleased that public pressure has finally forced the Lerner school's hand in dismissing their meritless lawsuit against our family. After we found, to our astonishment and horror, that the only Jewish school in a 50 mile radius employed professional and prolific anti-Israel BDS activists as teachers and administrators, the school initiated what amounts to legal bullying as part of a larger coordinated attempt to silence our speech about legitimate concerns of anti-Semitic tendencies of Lerner school teachers and administrators.

While they'll try to claim otherwise, the countless internal documents from the school and supporters clearly state their intent to harm our family, legally and otherwise.

Over the past 638 days (or 21 months) we were subjected to a clear attempt to intimidate, smear, and stifle our ability to express legitimate concerns about anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic activities by people associated with the school.  The allegations and the strategy behind bringing the suit were carefully calibrated to defame and harass our family into submission. School administrators and their supporters repeated slanderous claims that we were liars, bigots, and scofflaws in every forum on a continuous basis.  As such, we have been incorrectly portrayed as villains who want to destroy an innocent school and have become object of scorn in the community where we run a business and raise our children.

The strategy failed to silence us and crush our spirit has failed.

We have leaned on our families and friends in the broader global Jewish community who have ardently stood by our side against during this attack.  We were not silenced into submission, and we are not finished defending our family against the  anti-semitic and defamatory tactics of this BDS movement here in Durham, North Carolina. 

Please see court filing attached.

Best regards,

J. Sloan Rachmuth

jsholder@post.harvard.edu

mobile: 704-299-9071

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Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Israel's Slippery Slope to Political Wimpishness by Sarah Lehmann

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Israel's Slippery Slope To Politically Correct Wimpishness

By: Sara Lehmann

Published: April 14th, 2016

A few weeks ago an IDF soldier shot and killed a neutralized Palestinian terrorist who had just stabbed and wounded an IDF officer in Hebron. The soldier claimed he shot the terrorist due to his fear that the terrorist had an explosives belt hidden under the suspiciously heavy coat he was wearing (it was a mild day).

After a partial video of the event was released by the left-wing NGO B'Tselem, the soldier was promptly pounced upon by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ya'alon, and just about every leftist in Israel euphoric at the opportunity to nail a soldier with sanction from the higher ups.

Without waiting for an investigation, Netanyahu and Ya'alon figuratively shot one of their own soldiers in a preemptive attempt to placate critics of Israel who look for every excuse to blast Israel for the use of "excessive" force against terrorists.

"Whatever happened in Hebron doesn't represent the values of the IDF," Netanyahu said. "The IDF expects its soldiers to behave level-headedly and in accordance with the rules of engagement." Ya'alon said the soldier's apparent actions were "in utter breach of IDF values and of our code of ethics in combat."

Netanyahu and Ya'alon quickly backtracked after an outpouring of Israeli public sentiment in support of the soldier. But the damage was done. And those on the right side of the political divide were swift to point that out. Education Minister Naftali Bennet accused the two of rushing to "dance to B'Tselem's fiddle." Yisrael Beiteinu chair Avigdor Lieberman demanded the impeachment of Ya'alon and called the prime minister "spineless."

No one disputes the need for cases like this to be tried in a fair and equitable manner. But the prime minister's political calculation, which took the side of a terrorist over a soldier before any of the facts were in, misfired. Not only did it do little to assuage the false claims of anti-Semites against the "oppressive" Israeli army, it further impeded the fight against terror.

Soldiers need to know their backs are covered – or they'll be less inclined to cover the backs of innocent civilians. If they are forced to quash split-second decisions in their favor as they battle an insidious enemy, they end up betraying both themselves and the people they are protecting. A soldier who dies due to an absurd overabundance of caution for terrorists is a tragic loss of life and a symbol of his army's diminished will to fight. A terrorist who dies has simply accomplished his goal.

Terrorists do not abide by rules of engagement. And any fool who tries to accommodate them is not only foolish; he becomes complicit in those acts of terrorism himself.

In an era when every Israeli move is scrutinized and demonized, Israel's leaders need to be especially stalwart defenders of their army. With every knife in the back of a Jew, Israel should defy its critics by doubling efforts to crush the enemy rather than cave to it.

Back in February, Netanyahu slammed Swedish Foreign Minster Margot Wallstrom for accusing Israeli forces of conducting "extrajudicial executions" of Palestinians during the recent wave of violence. Netanyahu would have been wise to maintain a consistent defense a few weeks later in Hebron, because it seems to make no difference to Sweden whether Israeli soldiers are justified or not.

Sweden and other countries hostile to Israel have long pointed fingers at the Jewish state. Whether goaded by outright anti-Semitism or fear of their overwhelming and growing Muslim populations, they seem to believe that every terrorist's life is worth saving and every Jew's life is worth endangering.

Likewise, Netanyahu's protestations against U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy's recent indictment of Israel rings feeble and false when the prime minister maintains an inconsistent front. Leahy, a longtime critic of Israel, and ten House members sent a letter to Secretary of State Kerry asking the State Department to investigate claims of "gross violations of human rights" by both Israel and Egypt. It's a move that could potentially threaten U.S. military assistance to Israel.

Netanyahu responded that the IDF protects civilians from "bloodthirsty terrorists who come to murder them." But those civilians would feel more confident if their leader had demanded investigations into "bloodthirsty terrorists" in Hebron and their accomplices like B'Tselem rather than an Israeli soldier concerned for his safety and the safety of his colleagues.

As a combatant on the front lines of the fight against terrorism, Israel has a moral imperative to powerfully confront the enemy in a battle that goes far beyond its own borders. With Islamist terrorism sweeping the world, Netanyahu's political posturing in a local Hebron skirmish has regional and even global ramifications.

Netanyahu should be exposing rather than obscuring the suicidal realities of leftist policies. American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan long complained of having to fight with their hands tied behind their backs. They too were and are simultaneously fighting a real and figurative enemy. And it would be easier for them to take their cue from Israel as a vanquishing fighter rather than a vacillating wimp.

There are real and tragic consequences to America's self-imposed constraints on the battlefield. As Islamist terrorism continues to expand, so will the death toll of American fighters who have to consult lawyers before combating the enemy. It has morphed into a military farce of ask questions first, maybe shoot later.

With pushback from common-sense Israelis and, hopefully, from a new U.S. administration come next January, there may yet be hope for sanity to prevail on the military battlefield. But that sanity has to prevail on the political battlefield first.

About the Author: Sara Lehmann, a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, was formerly an editor at a major New York publishing house. For more articles please visit http://saralehmann.com.

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Update: Meeting of Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. Inyanei DeYoma Sheilos

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Unfortunately, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky told Shmuel Koenig that Rabbi Feldman did not raise the issue of Meir Ettinger at today's meeting with Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah.  

We understand that Rabbi Aharon Feldman is going to Eretz Yisroel for Pesach.

We are eagerly awaiting opinions, Psak, and/or letters from members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah regarding Inyanei DeYoma.  We would like to hear their positions on:

• Pidyon Shvuyim: Freeing Meir Ettinger from Adminsitrative Detention.  Freeing Jonathan Pollard from horrible Parole.  Freeing other hilltop youth from Administrative detention and putting a stop once and for all f disabling their ability to incarceration based on Illegal and immoral Orders. .

If they need a precedent, HaRav Moshe Feinstein  sent a Telegram on behalf of Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1980 asking that he be released from Administrative Detention.  Initially, the government of Israel seemed to say that their hands were tied but practically, a month later Rabbi Meir Kahane was released.

Exclusive to Jewish Press November 21 to November 27 1980:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjNm5WX2tGbkNPclVUOV9WZlhPenpXczhSaTdV/view?usp=sharing

Is Administrative Detention according to Halacha allowed in a Jewish Court of Law?  Rabbi Mordechai Tendler says that it is not.

Rabbi Mordechai Tendler's letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjdEJQck1aTmR1bzl1WE0yQzdQNzduSWh4NUxZ/view?usp=sharing  

A tremendous Yasher Koach to Rabbi Mordechai Tendler for writing this letter, and for sharing it publicly.  Rabbi Tendler holds that  Administrative imprisonment has no precedent in Jewish Ethical and Halachic Tradition.  "To delay is a violation of "Inui HaDin"

We need to have an outpouring of such letters to be effective!  Please 

How can we be silent when young Jewish Kids are locked up in jail, tortured and abused, or under house arrest or unable to go home or school because of these unethical and draconian Administrative orders?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210772#.Vw9jufkrJdi

Court rules: Jewish detainees to remain without lawyers. Four suspects to remain in Shin Bet custody; three to remain without legal counsel. 

Jonathan Pollard:   Editorial: A Most Chilling Notice of Action Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 9:02 pm http://hamodia.com/2016/04/12/chilling-notice-action/.  Yasher Koach for Hamodia for printing this article.  We need Rabbanim and more people to write letters on Jonathan Pollard's behalf,  to make an impact!

• Property Rights:  Double standard? PM saves illegal Arab home, but not synagogue

PM's office saves illegal Arab home from planned demolition on Tuesday, but leaves young Jewish couple homeless ahead of Pesach  holiday.  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210833#.Vw9jOvkrJdh

When there is no outpouring of  protest by Hamonei Am, the Government of Israel and the Defense Ministry have the allusion that they can do what they want, and that they can get away with it, and no one will stop them.  Of course all this is false because as believing Jews we know "Yesh Din VeYesh Dayan", we all have to answer to a Higher Authority. 

All of us who are silent as these miscarriages of Justice as they are happening under our eyes,  often not reported in mainstream Jewish Media, will have to answer to a heavenly court as per why we were complicit and didn't even try to stop these illegal orders, miscarriages of Justice from happening.  

In the News that you might have missed:

Terrorist Killer Who Ran Over Israeli (from Kiryat Arba) Not Charged with Murder

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/terrorist-killer-who-ran-over-israeli-not-charged-with-murder/2016/04/13/ 

(I wonder if the Jew murdered was from Tel Aviv, the courts would have decided differently. Robin)

Key testimony supports Hevron soldier who shot terrorist

Soldier's case strengthening: commander admits he would have shot too, comrade says were told terrorist had a bomb belt.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210563#.Vw9rSvkrJdg

Yet Israeli soldier who shot at still alive terrorist is to be tried on manslaughter?

From AFSI Newsletter: 

Dayenu! Enough is Enough! Illegal Arab house (Arutz Sheva) We are a little over a week away from Passover. However, leading into the Holiday of Freedom, it is just another day and another disturbing article in Arutz Sheva about double standards and discrimination in Israel. Is there a double standard? Yes! Against whom? Against Israeli Jews! Double standard? PM saves illegal Arab home, but not synagogue   http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210833#.Vw9jOvkrJdh On Tuesday the city of Jerusalem, supported by the Israeli police, were about to demolish an illegal Arab home built in the middle of a national park, when a call from the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered police to stand down. A government official claimed the decision was necessary to lower tensions. The article continues: The Prime Minister's intervention on behalf of the Arab Tutunji family, didn't stop the demolition of a Jewish home, carried out early Wednesday morning - in the Jewish town of Beit El. At around 3 a.m. Civil Administration enforcement units, supported by Israeli police, arrived at the home of Inbal and Uri Aloni. Within minutes the house was destroyed, leaving the couple - who are expecting their first child - homeless ahead of the Pesach holiday. Nor did the Prime Minister's Office intervene on behalf of a Carmei Tzur synagogue, dedicated to the memory of the murdered Gilad, Naftali and Eyal, which had been desecrated by Arab arson in February, and destroyed. How can this be? And why are we seeing this time and again? Why is it if a Jew in Yehuda/Shomron adds an extension to a home or builds a bathroom, orders for their destruction are given and acted on as rapidly as possible. In the meantime, there arethousands of illegal Arab buildings throughout Yehuda, Shomron, Jerusalem, the Negev and the Galil still standing, totally ignored by the Israeli authorities. Why is lip service being paid to this egregious inequality? When will the Israeli government order and act to tear down the incredible amount of illegal Arab building? When will justice be enacted equally?  But the settlers are rebuilding!  אתמול הרסו בית בחוות גלעד היום בונים אותו מחדש!!! נא להפיץ, נשמח לעזרתכם בנק מזרחי טפחות מס' סניף 483 מס חשבון 325646 על שם גמ'ח ידידי חוות גלעד.  שכל מעשינו יהיו לשם שמים! חג שמח! אילנה Back to Top

And while we are on the topic of freedom... Arutz Sheva: Court rules: Jewish detainees to remain without lawyers  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210772#.Vw6tbdQrK2x A District Court judge rejected a series of appeals on behalf of four Jewish Israelis being detained as part of a Shin Bet investigation Tuesday, despite public protest over the case.  The judge rejected four appeals against the extension of the suspects' detention, and reject three out of four appeals against the decision to prevent the suspects from meeting with attorneys.  The cause for the crackdown remains unknown, as circumstances of the case remain under gag order.  As with the double standard applied to Jewish and Arab building, there is something wrong with this picture - Jewish teens being held in prison without being charged and with no recourse to legal counsel. WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT AFRAID OF? We would like to know.

If the government of Israel is committing evil acts against a segment of the population, and we are complicit, then according to the rules of Grama,  what does it say about ourselves and our accountability in a Heavenly Court? 

If you are in contact with any of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah please let them know that you are very concerned about the welfare of these young Jewish kids who have been framed and libeled in the news as "Jewish Terrorists". This then turns into a full grown blood libel on all Jews,  by the likes of the New York Times and International Media, the UN, EU etc.  What started out as graffitti by Jewish Settler kids, in response to provocations of those who destroyed their homes, turns into Arson charges,and charges of murdering a Palestinian baby with his parents in Duma.  How is this different than Blood Libels in the past except that this blood libel  is fueled by unsuspecting Jews who condemn their fellow Jews without evidence or a fair trial other than believing false reports by Shabak?

Since then

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Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Rabbi Mordechai Tendler writes letter on behalf of Meir Ettinger!!! Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah Meeting today 4 Nissan 5776. Rabbanim called upon to make a Statement to Free Meir Ettinger from Jail under immoral Administrative Detention Orders

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Rabbi Mordechai Tendler's letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjdEJQck1aTmR1bzl1WE0yQzdQNzduSWh4NUxZ/view?usp=sharing

We hope and pray that HaRav Feldman will bring up the plight of Meir Ettinger in todays meeting with the members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. We understand that due to our lobbying efforts, Rabbi Aharon Feldman has also written to PM Netanyahu on behalf of the incarcerated Meir Ettinger.

Both Rabbi Mordechai Tendler and Rabbi Feldman chose to follow in the footsteps with Gadol Hador HaRav Moshe Feinstein ZT"L  who in 1980 sent a telegram on behalf of the Late Rabbi Meir Kahane, Meir Ettinger's grandfather ob"m yh"d,  on humanitarian grounds who also was sitting in Administrative detention.  

We hope and pray that HaRav Feldman will be Matzliach in raising the consciousness of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah with the goal to make a public appeal from the Prime Minister to release Meir Ettinger,

fyi Background information

• Letter to Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, Rabbi Reuvein Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe Tendler, Rabbi Mordechai Tendler re: writing a letter to free Meir Ettinger to Netanyahu as did Rabbi Moshe Feinstein zt"l  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/04/letter-to-rabbi-dovid-feinstein-rabbi.html
•  Please read up on the terrible travesty of justice, Meir Ettinger has had to endure!  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/search?q=meir+ettinger
• An overly zealous guard didn't even allow Meir Ettinger to speak with his wife on the day of his son's Brit. http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/kahanes-jailed-grandson-prison-guard-abusing-me/2016/04/07/
• Tizku LeMitzvoth! We can merit so many Mitzvoth by writing one simple letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/02/re-tizku-lemitzvoth-either-have-open.html

We believe that an appeal by the MGH on behalf of Meir Ettinger by members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah will bring much needed unity among Am Yisroel especially between Dati Leumi community and Chareidim and this will  have a tremendous rippling effect on the side of Zechus for Am Yisroel!  Shuva Elai VaAshuma Aleichem. Hashem tells us we need to take the first step. (As heard from an amazing Chazaq Torah Lecture by Rabbi Paysach Krohn https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChazaqOrganizationUSA/posts/UeQREfDnkYc?cfem=1 ).  Such a preemptive action on the part of our Gedoilim BaTorah will surely trigger great upheaval in the heavenly court now in the process of judging Am Yisroel. 

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky expressed his reservations that this proposal would be received with open arms among the members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah.  Shmuel Koenig asked him why not? but did not receive a clear answer.  

We can only guess that there are differences of opinion among the members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. We have tried to contact each of the Rabbanim individually who seemed amenable to lobby on Meir Ettinger's behalf.  It is our impression that HaRav Perlow tends to lean toward a more Satmer, Neturei Karta like position and we did not approach him but it is entirely possible that our judgement call was not accurate.  Satmer and Neturei Karta holds that the time is not ripe for Israel to have its own independent Sovereign State and we must wait for Moshiach. Neturei Karta has gone so far as to demonstrate with Palestinians chanting "Free Free Palestine" and is considered by many Jews as being traitorous. The Satmer community puts much emphasis on insulation and Kedusha and is at odds for the gov't of Israel for being secular and for not representing a Torah perspective. . In fact, given the way the gov't has been treating the hilltop youth, hilltop youth have good reason to have grievances against the  State of Israel as well.  

However, notwithstanding the position of many members of the MGH like HaRav Sternbuch in EY, regarding their opposition in ascending Har HaBayit bizmaneinu, which differs from Rabbi Moshe Tendler, see below, holding someone in jail without charges or due process such as habeas corpus seems like it is a travesty of justice according to Jewish and secular law.  Rabbi Tendler is of this opinion.

Members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah are:

          Rabbi Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld

·         Rabbi Dovid Feinstein

·         Rabbi Aharon Feldman

·         Rabbi Yosef Frankel

·         Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful

·         Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky

·         Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler

·         Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Levin

·         Rabbi Yaakov Perlow

·         Rabbi Aaron Schechter

Shmuel Koenig a  dedicated and persistent activist for Eretz Yisroel has been calling the Gedolim on a daily basis.  Shmuel is a very Temimisdic (sincere and idealistic with a touch of innocence and Emunah Peshuta)  person who yearns for the return of the Sanhedrin and for Moshiach to come now in our days. Perhaps it is for this reason, many of the Rabbanim have been amazingly gracious and have been taking his calls in spite of their very hectic schedules.  Shmuel Koenig is persistent in calling upon Members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah to speak up in a forthright manner against a 2 State Solution and for our entitlement of Yehudah and the Shomron based on the Torah and the Covenant Hashem Promised to our Forefathers Avraham Yitzchok and Yaakov.  

His efforts have been reaping positive results.  HaRav Mordechai Tendler and HaRav Feldman agreed to write a letter to PM Netanyahu on Meir Ettinger's behalf.  We of course would love if HaRav Feldman would publicize his letter. 

If any of you receiving this post can lobby these prestigious Rabbanim on Meir Ettinger's behalf it would be greatly appreciated!  

Meir Ettinger and the hilltop youth sincerely yearn for a government in Israel based on Torah.  It seems to me that this yearning is consistent with the Marienbad Resolution of Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah in 1937 

Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah re: Jewish State, Oct. 1937   http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2008/02/moetzes-gedolei-hatorah-re-jewish-state.html

fyi:

Rabbi Mordechai Tendler is Rabbi Moshe Feinstein grandson. His father is Rabbi Moshe Tendler the son in law of Rav Moshe Feinstein.  

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/20793/rabbi-moshe-tendler-visits-temple-mount.html

Jerusalem - Rabbi Tendler Ascends Har HaBayit (video) http://www.vosizneias.com/29171/2009/03/20/jerusalem-rabbi-tendler-ascends-har-habayit-video/

Rabbi Tendler Ascends Temple Mount https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk9jkrzKb9k

Kol Tuv!

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

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