The Battle between Yad Le'Achim and Kibbutz Ramat Rachel

B"H

It has been going on for a few weeks now. The Israeli anti - missionary organization Yad Le'Achim is running ads against the Jerusalem Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Yad Le'Achim accuses the Kibbutz of hosting different Christian missionary groups as well as messianic Jews. The Kibbutz, on the other hand, claims that they do not investigate clients who want to book the facilities of the Kibbutz.

Fact is, that Ramat Rachel has been hosting such events for the past few years and I do not understand why Yad Le'Achim is only reacting now after Sukkot. It is well - known that those missionary groups hold lectures where they announce that all the rabbis in Mea Shearim should be converted to Christianity.

Well, this must be a kind of a joke because no rabbi let alone Admor in Mea Shearim would ever do such a thing. No Torah educated Jew would ever take such a thought into consideration and only arrogant and ignorant Christian missionaries are able to believe their own words and imaginations.

Yad Le'Achim put a ban on Ramat Rachel. No Jew should book the facilities and celebrate a Bar Mitzwa or a wedding there. But it does not look like the Kibbutz is showing any regret. What they care about is the profit they make from all kinds of people using the facilities. It does not matter who it is and what is proclaimed. The main thing is that the rent is being paid on time.