Rabbi Pesach Lerner is Chairman of Eretz HaKodesh, a slate representing Torah Jewry in the World Zionist Congress, and serves on the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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The episode is not an isolated procedural lapse. It reflects a deeper assumption that runs through the National Institutions: that "Diaspora Jewry" holds one set of views, and that the institutions may speak in its name accordingly.
Our Sages tell us that the G-d doesn’t give someone a test he can’t endure. Jonathan is that someone, and he endured – 30 years in prison, seven of which were in solitary confinement.
Chief rabbi, Rav Dovid Lau, stated that the Torah community's turnout in the WZO election is vital.
J Street is like the kid in the schoolyard who makes the rules in his favor, but when he loses, claims it was unfair.


