A large crowd paid tribute to the Agudah at the 2014 Agudah Dinner at the New York Hilton. The Novominsker Rebbi Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, and President of the Agudath Israel of America called the Reform and Open Orthodoxy movements steeped in apikoros, heretics and a danger for Judaism. Watch video below The Torah must be guarded from the secular forces that seek to corrupt its values and the lives of, from intruders who sometimes in the name of Judaism completely subvert and destroy the eternal values of our people.
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Philadelphia Rosh yeshiva, announced a new Agudath Israel program to encourage young boys to study the Mishnah, Called “One Mishnah, Together,” Watch Video HERE . The pirchei Siyum hamishnayos will take place June 8 2014.
Mayor de Blasio (Video and speech below) paid tribute on Tuesday night to some of his strongest backers since his time as a Brooklyn councilman, blasting anti-Semitism
and defending Israel in front of ultra-Orthodox group Agudath Israel. Reb Shlomo Werdiger, Chairman of Agudath Israel of America introduced NYC mayor Bill de Blasio.
from Agudath Israel on Vimeo.
De Blasio spoke at the group's 92nd annual dinner, which honored Brooklyn resident and wealthy real estate investor and landlord Rubin Schron.
Hizzoner touched on recent anti-Semitic attacks in Kansas, where three people were fatally shot outside of a Jewish community center, and in Belgium, where four people were killed near the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
"The danger of anti-Semitism lurks always...it lurks all over the world," he said. "You always would've thought that our friends in Europe would've learned something, but all over Western Europe, anti-Semitism is too alive and well."
He also mentioned anti-Semitic graffiti in Brooklyn, which "reminds us that people have to be taught tolerance, they have to be taught understanding. And when that's not good enough, our law enforcement personnel will do their job."
De Blasio lauded Commissioner Bratton and the NYPD for keeping New Yorkers safe against the threat of anti-Semitism and other bias attacks.
"Whenever they sense even the possibility of violence against the Jewish community, they swing into action," he said.
He painted himself as a staunch defender of Israel.
"The state of Israel does not have enough defenders in the world," he said. "I am honored to count myself among the number of those who will always rise to defend Israel."
De Blasio came under fire for giving a speech in January to right-leaning pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee, getting into trouble with liberal Jewish groups that supported him. The secret meeting, which was not listed on his public schedule, caused liberal Jews to get angry at de Blasio for aligning himself with the hardline group. source HERE
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