Is Aryeh Deri the Best we can Do?
This is a difficult article to write. I'm not particularly eager to take a position that is unpopular in the orthodox community. Still, when I see a Chilul Hashem happening and no one saying anything about it, I feel I must raise my voice and protest. I don't know what, if any, effect it will have, but I hope my readers have some way to influence that something positive can come from this matter. In an article published just a week ago (at the time of this writing), I expressed my concerns despite the new Israeli government's wonderful opportunity for positive developments for the cause of Torah in Israel. I worried that corruption might rear its ugly head and cause a Chillul Hashem. Unfortunately, I didn't have to wait too long. As I write on Motzaei Shabbat, over 100,000 people are demonstrating in Tel Aviv (and thousands more in other locations) against the new government. That alone would not trouble me in the slightest; it was very predicta...