Document: Rabbinic Appeal As Pollard Approaches Year 20 In Prison

Media Release - November 9, 2004
Source: The Committee to Bring Jonathan Pollard Home

[Translated from Hebrew and formatted in English by Justice4JP]

On November 21, 2004 (8 Kislev 5765) Jonathan Pollard will begin his 20th year of a life sentence in an American prison for his activities on behalf of Israel.

We the undersigned rabbis call upon all teachers, educators and rabbis, in the days leading up to November 21st, to deliver lectures and special classes on the subjects of pidyan shvuyim and Jewish responsibility for one and other, and to dedicate these shiurim to the merit of Jonathan Pollard (Yehonatan ben Malka) for a speedy redemption.

We call upon all pulpit rabbis on Shabbat /Parashat Vayetze, which precedes the November 21st anniversary by one day (11/20/04) to devote their Shabbat sermons to these subjects, dedicated to the merit of Jonathan Pollard.

Signed:

HaRav Mordecai Eliyahu, shlita
HaRishon L'Tzion, HaMekubal, HaGaon; HaRav HaRashi l'sheh'evar

HaRav Avraham Elkana Shapira, shlita
Rosh Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav; HaRav HaRashi l'sheh'evar

HaRav Shlomo Amar, shlita

HaRishon L'Tzion, HaRav HaRashi L'Yisrael

HaRav Shlomo Aviner

: Rav HaYishuv Bet El; v'Rosh Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim

HaRav Shlomo Ishon

: Rannana

HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu

: Rav HaIr Tsfat

HaRav Yisrael Ariel

: Machon HaMikdash

HaRav Yaacov Ariel

: Rav HaIr Ramat Gan

Harav Shalom Arosh:

Rosh Mosdot Chot Shel Chessed

HaRav Chananel Etrog

: Yeshivat Shavei Chevron

HaRav Yaron Ben-David

HaRav Yoel Bin-Nun

: Rosh Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati

HaRav Nir Ben-Artzi

: Talmei Geulat Am Yisrael

HaRav Michoel Baram

: Rosh Yeshivat HaHesder Shilo

HaRav Binyahu Broner

: Rosh Yeshivat HaHesder Tsfat

HaRav Rami Rachamim Barchihu

: Rav HaYishuv Talmon

HaRav Dovid Gavriel

: Yeshivat Neve Dekalim

HaRav Mordecai Greenberg

: Rosh Yeshivat HaHesder Kerem B'Yavne

HaRav David Greenvald

: Rav HaYishuv Nachalim

HaRav Tzafania Drori

: Rav HaIr Kyriat Shemona, v'Rosh Yeshivat Kyriat Shemona

HaRav Dovid Chai HaCohen

: Rav v' Rosh HaYeshiva D'Kehillat Orat HaTorah, Bat Yam

HaRav Micha HaLevi

: Rosh Yeshivat Nachalat Yitzchak

HaRav Shmuel Hershler

: R"M B'Mechina Baali

HaRav Yerachmiel Weiss

: Rosh Yeshivat Yerusalayim L'Tze'irim

HaRav Elisha Vishltzik

: Rosh Tenuat El Ami

HaRav Noach Vijinsky

: Rav HaYishuv Katif

HaRav Moshe Tzvi Wexler

: Rosh HaYeshiva HaTechnonit, Bnai Brak

HaRav Uri Cohen

: Rosh Kollel Mertz, Mivasserret

HaRav Eliyakim Levanon

: Rav HaYishuv Elon Moreh, v'Rosh Yeshivat Elon Moreh

HaRav Moshe Levi

: Hechal Shlomo, Tel Aviv

HaRav Dov Leor

: Rav HaIr Kyriat Arba

HaRav Yosef Mendelovitch

: R"M B'Machon Meir, v' Rosh Tenuat HaOlami Shivat Tzion; (Assir Tzion l'sheh'evar)

HaRav Ze'ev Mendelsohn

: Rosh Yeshivat Hatechionit Halichot Olam

HaRav Yaacov Margolit

: Pardes Chana

HaRav Chanan Porat

: Rosh Tenuat Orot

HaRav Fagenboim

: Mikdatz Keshet

HaRav Shai Piron

: Rosh Ulpanit Yeshurun

HaRav Gabi Kadosh

: Ganei Tal

HaRav Amos Kliger

: Rosh HaYeshiva Hatechionit Torah U'Mada

HaRav Amihod Klenheim

: Ramat Gan

HaRav Aiyal Karim

: Rosh Mikdatz Keshet l'sheh'evar

HaRav Yeshiyahu Rubinstein

: Rosh HaYeshiva Hatechionit Mada'it, Rishon LeTzion

HaRav Yehuda Rosenberg

: Rosh Ulpana Amana, Kfar Saba

HaRav Avi Ronski

: Rosh HaYeshiva HaG'voha B'Itmar

HaRav Chaim Steiner

: R"M B'Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav

HaRav Daniel Shilo

: Rav HaYishuv Kedomim

HaRav Yehoshua Shapira

: Rosh Yeshivat HaHesder Ramat Gan

HaRav Ehud Shapira

: Mohilber, Bnai Brak

HaRav Yoel Sharlo

: Rosh Yeshivat Petach Tikvah

HaRav Uri Sharki

: R"M B'Machon Meir, Yerushalayim

And others...

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