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About the war on Torah rhetoric, I agree with Plonis that it's aimed at the Supreme Court and other secularists who are not responsible for supporting yeshivos in the first place, but are responsible for the threat to draft yeshiva students and upheaval of the yeshiva world. Unfortunately, much of the non-chareidi religious have been recruited in support of the secularist cause, and although their intentions cannot be said to be anti-Torah, they are nevertheless unwittingly supporting the anti-Torah side. I am inclined to think it was probably a mistake for yeshivos to take government money in the first place, any money comes with strings attached, and now they have dug themselves into a hole that they will struggle to climb out from.

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I don't think being anti-welfare is a regular Torah value. Maybe a middas chassidus, like שונא מתנות יחיה. Nobody ever suggested that one is not allowed to accept gifts, and that's not what almost anybody does. It's a middas chassidus. I agree that practically speaking, it's not a good idea for our yeshivos to rely on secular government funding, as the Satmar Rebbe astutely observed (although it's a mystery to me why that only applies to the Zionists. As we see, it applies to New York State just as much).

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