Many locations in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, populated by Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidim, were plastered Sunday with signs in support of the Ichud Haleumi party.
It’s an initiative of former Israelis living here, an anonymous email told to COLlive. “We wanted to create awareness and interest for the party,” it read.
A Friday opinion poll gave former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s Likud party 28 of the 120 parliamentary seats, which could lead a 65-mandate right wing bloc.
The ruling Kadima party of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni would obtain 23 seats, as compared to the 28 mandates it currently holds.
The far-right Israel Beiteinou party led by MP Avigdor Lieberman would get 16 mandates, while Defence Minister Ehud Barak‘s Labour party would obtain 17.
The people behind the posters, hung up also on Lubavitch World Headquarters, added: “This is not just a regular vote, but an important vote that is needed to stop the plans of the new administration in America.”
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Avi
Dear Chabad Brothers,
Maybe you dont understand or agree with this event but like the election of Obama marked the end of Noah’s curse over Cham, your support of the only party that stands without lie for the jews as Abraham’s descent may end the 2000 years old separation between the Torah and the land.
annavi@netvision.net.il
agreed 100%
it fits right in with a yichi on the poroches in 770.
Ma kesher????????
why new york? israelis 1414 u say???
i aint think theyre voting mr 6, with all due respect, of course.
u are right number 11 and that includes not putting up posters in 770 the place of the rebbes dollars
yes when will the day come when i will bring respectable yidden to a respectable situation
talmidei chachamim binachas nishma’im
it should be taken down immediatly
besides netanyahu is not making a coalition with u soo put up all the posters u want ure irrelevant and goto kenya they might want u to vote there
I found this to be pretty humorous!
What goes on in Israel is every Jew’s business!
that the rebbe would never allow this. Funny how the people screaming Yechi etc are the ones doing the very things that the rebbe would never tolerate. Shame on you. Please go and destroy someone else’s work not my Rebbe’s.
For that you need a rebbe. There are many parties that advocate those ideals. If Liubavitch starts endorsing political campaigns, we will be no different then Degel Hatora or Shas.
The Rebbe did that one time during the entire nesius. He has many times where he could have made the same argument as you propose.
It can be very dangerous when you start playing Rebbe.
very well said. also people who are bashing others it’s because they can’t admit to themselves that they’re doing not enough in their lives so they have to put others down to lift them selves up
For everybody’s information, the Rebbe personally campaigned for Yitzchak Shamir to win the 1987 election. The Rebbe said that he does not endorse political parties. However, if there is someone who proves himself to be the only one that can stand up and be strong and follow the Torah’s command about not giving away an inch of Eretz Yisroel and certainly not at the expense of pikuach nefesh, then it is a mitzvah to vote for him and to campaign for him. Shamir won because of the Rebbe’s support and his government acknowledged that after the election. We all know… Read more »
the people that clock the most hours in 770 and 1414 are israeli – makes sense to put posters there…
ok so if you want to hang up signs, do so! its a free country. but don’t do on a holy place like 770!!!
A hefker velt
There is a party in Eretz Yisroel that lubavitcher chadidem can feel comfortable voteing for i know it might not very populer to go ant vote for such a party but the times calls for it this a chance for the chabad leadership tp do a kappara for messing up by Gush Katif
what is so bad
770 is a makom hakodesh not a circus! the signs dont belong there. these signs belong in israel where the election is!