me as a kid in Montreal over 50 years ago. They were all survivors..all real Tzaddikim,,all real menchen who understood that 'Torah' should not stop kids from getting a secular education. Todays Rabbis are peddlers, schnorrers who yank children to not be educated but to be dependent on them and their influence. Like I said if they want to destroy their own kids, bemelah, however when they influence other naive parents to entrust them with their kids, thats where I must object. Thus my appeal to parents to be extremly careful. I know what I am talking about..I have seen the results close and upfront.

They are an invention. To say that the Rabbis of one branch is authentic and another a fraud is absurd. And speaking of Orthodox as a single branch is equally absurd.

"That is not my opinion, That is FACT." You wouldn't recognize a fact if it walked up to you and introduced itself.

The Hassidic Rabbis do not stop their Hassidim to learn a job after the Yeshiva years .They mostly are exellent in high tech and in business. You are right.Telling the parents to be careful is for sure a good advice.

I agree with you harry 100% but do you not understand the schism between Orthodox and secular is exactly what the government and zionists want? You and others with your emunah have been duped by them by trusting in their G-dless medinah.

The first Chief Rabbi of British Palestine was Rav Kook, and the Office of the Chief Rabbinate is modeled on Britain, although many other European countries also have a Chief Rabbi. The same as the Church of England is the official religion of the kingdom, so is Orthodox Judaism the recognised or 'established' religion of Israel. This is part of Israel's unwritten constitution and is part of the status quo agreement. The elected members of the Knesset have to now legislate to clarify the situation. Reform are welcome to build their temples and to follow the Reform Minhag Amerika of Isaac Mayer Wise, but not to be govt paid communal Rabbonim.

better to fund no rabbis at all than to support those who pervert torah

Moshe Rabbeinu had 70 Elders who assisted him. If you read the first chapter of Pirkei Avot/Ethics of the Fathers it traces the leadership of the Jewish People and the transmission of Torah through Elders, Judges, Prophets, Sages etc. Today we call the Talmidei Chachomin by the title 'Rabbi'. The Torah says you will follow the Sages of your own generation. Recent Sages would include the Chofetz Chaim, Dayan Abramsky, Reb Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv etc. America's Reform rabbis from Isaac Mayer Wise onwards are no match for these giants.

A recent study of the salaries of American pulpit clergy said that a senior Reform congregational rabbi could expect about a quarter of a million dollars in annual income. A senior Orthodox congregational rabbi in America could not dream of such a salary! Many world-famous Orthodox Rabbonim have lived in great modesty, even poverty, the exact opposite of the Reform edifice complex.

Of course spitting is subnormal and 100% unacceptable. Every large enough group will have a few 'misguided outcasts', to quote the Satmar Rov. On the Israeli secular side you have media/newspapers that spit on Torah,Yahadut and 'The Land' of Israel.