Ahead of Wednesday’s “Day of Disruption,” Slonim Hasidim are expected to join a major car protest against government measures targeting the Torah world, which is set to begin at 4:00 p.m. from 19 locations across Israel. The broader mobilization is part of a hard-line campaign against what organizers describe as threats to religious study.
The Slonim court is one of the prominent groups taking an active part. Its rebbe has long opposed any involvement by state institutions in religious life, and in recent years he founded a special yeshiva for his followers in Beit Shemesh that operates without government funding or support.
The timing is complicated by a family celebration. That evening, the rebbe’s grandson is to be married at Heichal Malchut hall in Bnei Brak, with hundreds of Hasidim, rabbis and rebbes expected to attend. Because of the wedding, the rebbe’s personal aide, Rabbi Asher Weinberger, sent a special message to the community on Monday night.
In that message, he said it was very important to the rebbe that the Hasidim take part in the protest convoy, but that drivers should at some point make a U-turn halfway along the route and head back so they can join the wedding. The news site said it would continue covering the nationwide protest with reports and photo galleries.
