Anarchist Women Crash International Tefillin Day in Tel Aviv
First of all, it is quite amazing to see so many Tefillin observant Jews in Tel Aviv. But why ‘celebrate’ publicly in Habima Square, the place of many protesting upheavals? And with a mayor of extreme leftist progressive woke agenda?
The 15 of Av has been declared International Tefillin Day, inviting Jewish men to congregate in open spaces and conduct the morning prayer with tefillin, which are provided for those without.
In Tel Aviv, Tefillin Day was scheduled for Wednesday morning at the plaza in front of the National Theater, Habima. Reuven Lediansky, leader of the “Green Seculars” faction in the Tel Aviv City Council, appealed to Mayor Ron Huldai to cancel the event, because it is held in a gender-segregated manner and the entertainment portion of the event did not include a female singer.
Lediansky has a long tradition of efforts to thwart events of religious Tel Aviv residents, especially events that generate communication and understanding between religious and secular Jews.
The event took place despite the objections, but a few women in the traditional red T-shirts of The Women’s Struggle group inserted themselves into the rows of men and insisted on staying there despite the obvious discomfort they caused the men. As you can see in the video, one woman insisted on standing surrounded by the men despite appeals from several police officers. She argued that she wasn’t hurting anyone, just standing, what do you want from me?
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| would this not invalidate their ‘praying’? |
Why are these men still living in TA?
Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/video-picks/anarchist-women-crash-international-tefillin-day-in-tel-aviv/2023/08/02/
2 comments:
"Why are these men still living in TA?"
Maybe because they moved there with their families/friends/fellow students/etc. with the intention of winning some of those Tel-Avivians over to their heritage? I saw articles years ago about this. People like this wouldn't give in because women are standing in their way. Stiff-necked Jews, they are! ;-)
To answer your question - why are these Jews living in TA? There are quite a few Tel Avivites that are from the 'original vatikim' that settled in Yafo in the 1870'80's and they were the very religious Jews as were most of the vatikim who settled in Yerushalayim and Tzfat. They remained in that area but, of course, became outnumbered by the seculars.
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