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Rav Shteinman has previously been opposed to public protests. He disapproved of the June 2013 protest held in Manhattan’s Federal Square. Rav Shteinman’s immediate response to the Shaked Committee’s approval of criminal sanctions was that the atzeres is now required as a justified reaction to what he describes as a horrific chillul Hashem. He is said to be uninterested in how the event will play in the media.

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Rabbi Raphael Fuchs
Rabbi Fuchs learned in Yeshivas Toras Moshe, where he became a close talmid of Rav Michel Shurkin, shlit”a. While he was there he received semicha from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, shlit”a. He then learned in Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and became a close talmid of Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, zt”l. Rabbi Fuchs received semicha from the Mirrer Yeshiva as well. After Rav Shmuel’s petira Rabbi Fuchs learned in Bais Hatalmud Kollel for six years. He is currently a Shoel Umaishiv in Yeshivas Beis Meir in Lakewood, and a Torah editor and weekly columnist at The Jewish Press.