Collection of Letters from Rabbi Menachem Porush, Letters Regarding Drafting Girls. 1952-1953

Collection of Letters from Rabbi Menachem Porush, Letters Regarding Drafting Girls. 1952-1953

37 letters signed by the President of Agudat Yisrael and MK on behalf of Yahadut HaTorah [1916-2010]. The letters are all stencil prints that were signed by Rabbi Porush between 1952-3. 

Letters on various issues that were contentious during the first years of the State of Israel: Three important letters regarding drafting girls, dated Tammuz-Av 1953. [In one, the rabbi addresses the Agudat Yisrael branches and states, "At our least meeting, we decided to recruit all the branches of the movements and its participants to a campaign to explain matters regarding the decree of drafting the girls ... Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul has been designated as a day of prayer and inspiration. Please do as much as you can to increase the attention and inspiration." In addition to other letters regarding the form used by religious girls to declare their intentions]; establishing institutions; reasons for leaving the coalition [letter from the 12th of Tishrei, 1953: 'We have joined the government as long as we could attain the minimum in the merit of our values that have been holy from generation to generation, and given this minimum has been negated - we have left it']; other letters on this subject; the makeup of the religious council; observing shmittah and more.

Rabbi Menachem Porush [1916-2010] served as MK for a number of parties: Yahadut HaTorah, Agudat Yisrael and the Chazit Datit Toratit, between 1959-1994 (besides for a break between November 1975 and May 1977). He battled the draft for girls, the mixed swimming pool in Jerusalem and the establishment of a stadium near Har Chotzvim. In 1999, he organized a Charedi protest against the Israeli Supreme Court.

These letters are all written on the stationery of Merkaz Agudat Yisrael B'Eretz Yisrael." Most measure 22x13 cm. Overall fine condition.