I am as far from Shas as you can imagine but the way Yesh Atid has been behaving and Dov Lipman's defense of this party is a total enigma to me.

I am just sad Dov didn't join the lets bash Bennet's party. I was actually hoping to hear what he has to say when Yair Lapid says to Chilonim that Naftali is tricking them and the real home for Chilonim is Yesh atid.

from the JPost article by Haim Amsalem from 2011:

"Rabbi Tzadok Hacohen Rabinowitz of 19th-century Lublin, Poland, explains that Isaiah referred to zera Yisrael when he described the “lost ones” who would rejoin the Jewish people through conversion upon our return to our homeland."

from Times of Israel article by Dov Lipman:

"Rabbi Tzadok Hacohen Rabinowitz of 19th-century Lublin, Poland, explains that Isaiah referred to these “zera Yisrael” when he described the “lost ones” who would rejoin the Jewish people through conversion upon our return to our homeland."

Amsalem

The greatest of rabbis never demanded this. The Talmud clearly requires only that we teach conversion candidates “some lenient and some strict commandments.”.

Lipman:

"The Talmudic sages never demanded this. The Talmud clearly requires only that we teach conversion candidates “some lenient and some strict commandments” prior to accepting them for conversion."

Amsalem

"The candidates in question agree to fast on Yom Kippur, to refrain from eating leavened bread on Pessah, to recite the Kiddush prayer and light the candles on Shabbat night, and for those in the IDF, to risk their lives to protect the Jewish state (what greater mitzva can there be?). The classic texts are replete with sources permitting the conversions of these zera Yisrael immigrants based on their intention to observe these basic commandments, especially in light of the fact that we should be proactively seeking them out for conversion."

Lipman

These immigrants from the former Soviet Union who want to convert agree to fast on Yom Kippur, to refrain from eating leavened bread on Passover, to recite the Kiddush prayer and light the candles on Shabbat night, and for those in the IDF, to risk their lives to protect the Jewish state (what greater mitzvah can there be?). The classic texts are replete with sources permitting the conversions of these zera Yisrael immigrants based on their intention to observe these basic commandments.

(these are literally word for word).

Amsalem:

One additional issue demands that we convert these immigrants immediately. If we don’t allow them to convert, these immigrants are going to marry our children anyway. They grow up together, go to grade school together, serve in the army together, study in university together, and thousands will inevitably choose to spend their lives together. And then, in the coming decades, Israel will be ripped apart with disputes regarding which citizens are Jews and which are not. Non-Jewish children will be raised as Jews, but will not be recognized as Jews by the rabbinate or the state.

Lipman

One additional issue demands that we convert these immigrants immediately (and flies in the face of Shas, who blame everyone but themselves for intermarriage and assimilation in Israel.) If we don’t allow them to convert, these immigrants are going to marry our children anyway. They grow up together, attend grade school together, serve in the army together, study in university together, and tens of thousands will inevitably choose to spend their lives together. And then, in the coming decades, Israel will be ripped apart with disputes regarding which citizens are Jews and which are not. Non-Jewish children will be raised as Jews, but will not be recognized as Jews by the rabbinate or the state.

Amsalem

True leadership demands that a problem be solved before it even arises, and in our current circumstance, that means relying on those valid and lenient opinions to convert these hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Lipman

Leadership demands that a problem be solved before it even arises, and in our current circumstance, that means relying on those valid and lenient opinions to convert these hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=231281

Racist, anti-semitic eugenicists do not want for Jewish people (according to halakha, whether born or converted leshem shemayim) to marry one another. They want for Jewish people to marry "Aryan" people who are not Jewish halakhically, as they view Jews as genetically and intellectually inferior, and children born of mixed marriages with "Aryan" people who are not Jewish halakhically genetically and intellectually superior.

This could mean that your son, or your daughter, may have a very, very difficult time finding a Jewish suitor, because there are forces at work which are actively trying to prevent them from marrying a fellow Jew…especially a fellow Jew who does not "look white" or "look European/Asian"…

Jewish people, and especially Jewish people of color, are finding it more and more difficult to marry another Jewish person today, so that they may have children, and continue on their family lines into the next generation in a Jewish home, according to Torah, so that Jewish tradition may be preserved…Some are not marrying, are not having children, which is, effectively, sterilization ~ a tool used by eugenicists throughout history to destroy those whom they deem to be genetically and intellectually inferior.

The Jewish birthrate in every country around the world, with the exception of Israel (B"H!), is negative today…That is a fact. No exaggeration.

Racist, anti-semitic eugenicists do not want for Jewish people (according to halakha, whether born or converted leshem shemayim) to marry one another. They want for Jewish people to marry "Aryan" people who are not Jewish halakhically, as they view Jews as genetically and intellectually inferior, and children born of mixed marriages with "Aryan" people who are not Jewish halakhically genetically and intellectually superior.

This could mean that your son, or your daughter, may have a very, very difficult time finding a Jewish suitor, because there are forces at work which are actively trying to prevent them from marrying a fellow Jew…especially a fellow Jew who does not "look white" or "look European/Asian"…

Jewish people, and especially Jewish people of color, are finding it more and more difficult to marry another Jewish person today, so that they may have children, and continue on their family lines into the next generation in a Jewish home, according to Torah, so that Jewish tradition may be preserved…Some are not marrying, are not having children, which is, effectively, sterilization ~ a tool used by eugenicists throughout history to destroy those whom they deem to be genetically and intellectually inferior.

The Jewish birthrate in every country around the world, with the exception of Israel (B"H!), is negative today…That is a fact. No exaggeration.

If you are truly "embarrassed" by your country, Dov, than you do us a great disservice and ignore the amazing things done. One stupid ad embarrasses you? Why can't you just say things like "what idiot thought this would garner them votes?" You have no right, in the name of Orthodox Jews (or Israelis) to suggest that this ad speaks for anyone except one party (at most) and more likely, one less than intelligent person who thinks he knows how to communicate and a photographer. I notice also, that you have changed the title from yesterday. I'm glad you did – if there is shame to be had, it is not your right to put it on "us."