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Title: | GOOD LUCK TO MR. WOLFSON!! | |||
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| Name: | sad but true | | |||
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| GOOD LUCK TO MR. WOLFSON!! About 4 or so years ago, there were individual frum people who single handedly convinced the tzyoynist ?Birthright? to have FRUM, Torahdike, and SEPARATE (boys & girls) tours. And the tours were targeting yeshiveshe boucrim and bais yakkov girls, with special alternative itineraries i.e. NOT going to certain ?mandatory? Zionist places, and INCLUDING going to makomos hakedoshim etc, which were all CONTRARY to the ?RULES` of Birthright. There were even learning sedorim set up for the boys trips!! In fact, EACH participant was interviewed and ?checked into? by these frum volenteers, to make sure the trips have a good toradike chevrah. Many frum teens whose parents could have never afforded sending their kids to EY, got a FREE chance to live out their dreams!! It was gevaldik!! An entire Eretz Yisroel unforgettable summer experience was free!! Unfortunately, due to pure Motzi shem ra (spreading of malicious lies) about some girls from the trip posing in pictures with Chayalim (Israeli solders) ? some Rabonnim hearing this, went and AS?SURED these trips! They even went as far as taking out full page ads in the Yated and Hamodia, condemning the trips and their organizers! When the tzyoynist ?Birthright? found out that CHARIDI rabbis are banning the ?charidi? versions of their trips they were so insulted, and offended, especially because they considered that they bent over backwards to accommodate ALL of the requests ? (including budgeting more money for their alternative itinerary, and providing BADAT?Z ONLY meals etc. ? the list goes on?..) they put an end to Charidi trips!! A very sad ending, and crushing so many frum teens dreams!! So I say, Good luck Mr. Wolfson, I hope your version wont be banned!! |
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