“Why not glorify our real heroes, the wonderful frum young men in the IDF? Why glorify secular atheists?”
Yasher koyach to my good friends Rabbi Moshe Hauer and Rabbi A. D. Motzen on so successfully walking on eggshells explaining the need to remind both parties’ leaders “of the growth of the Orthodox Jewish community and its increasing electoral strength.”
Why “eggshells”? Not for the goyim but for unzere. The overwhelming sentiment in the heimish community is pro-Trump. There are reasons for this, and at present, the Republicans are more outspoken in supporting Israel’s position. President Biden’s ahavas Yisrael is not fully appreciated by many. He is, however, a relic of a prior generation.
Perhaps many of you do not understand the venomous diatribes I and many others receive. A guest at our Yom Tov table said that any Jew who votes Democratic is a rodef. A friend of my wife’s wrote on a group chat that anyone supporting Kamala is a rodef. They did not invent this curse; they are repeating what many say.
I have not declared for whom I will vote for president. It is not in our interests to all be in one of the two major parties. To those who tell me that daas Torah demands allegiance to Trump, I recall that Agudah members of the Polish Sejm aligned with whichever party at that moment would be beneficial, or at least less injurious, to Jewish interests.
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