Aharon Feldman

[1] He has dual citizenship to both Israel and America, and is in line for a position as MK in the Israeli parliament in the Degal HaTorah party.

In 1961 Rabbi Feldman and his wife Leah made aliyah with their family to Israel in order to raise their eight children in a more religious environment.

Before returning to the United States he consulted with Rabbis Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and with Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman who both counseled him to take the position in America.

He ruled that it is forbidden to associate with elokists under any circumstances due to their heresy and that they cannot be counted for a minyan, stating that most Chabad adherents do not fall under that category.

Among many criticisms, he writes, "Specifically, the work is marred by an extraordinary number of inaccuracies stemming primarily from misreadings of the sources; it fails to explain those difficult passages which the reader would expect it to explain; and it confuses him with notes which are often irrelevant, incomprehensible, and contradictory."

He argues that "The basis of Orthodox Judaism is a belief in the Divine origin of both the Oral and Written Torah.

In a letter to R. Aharon Lichtenstein, he quoted their mutual Rebbe, Rav Yitzhok Hutner as saying that Zionism is "pure apikorsus.

"[15] He also quoted Rav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik (R. Lichtenstein's father in law) as saying Leumius (Zionism) is Apikorsus.