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MEET: The Davidic Dynasty

Quoting the organization’s About page:

The Davidic Dynasty is dedicated to honoring the history, lineage and heritage of the royal line of King David, the king who united twelve tribes into the nation of Israel. Virtually every royal house in Europe, including the Windsor’s of England, traces itself as descendants of the House of David.

Jewish liturgy and Christian sources are replete with references about the rebuilding of the House of David. The Davidic Dynasty envisions itself as an essential conduit and facilitator in the rebuilding of the House of David and the reunification of descendants of this royal line.

Founded in 2000 by Susan J. Roth, the Davidic Dynasty is a project of the Eshet Chayil Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Today, the Davidic Dynasty is guided by a core group of dedicated professionals and Davidic descendants. Susan has impressive credentials in the Jewish nonprofit world including leadership positions in the Central New Jersey Holocaust Committee, the Central New Jersey YM-YWHA, and the Central New Jersey Jewish Federation. Both an author and a publisher, Susan Roth has dedicated her life to honoring the memory and legacy of King David and to documenting his genealogy.

First, They Came for the Charedim. And I Did Not Speak Out. Because I Was Not Charedi.

An excerpt from YWN (but not Arutz Sheva):

 Rabbi David Fendel, the Rosh Yeshivah of the Hesder Yeshiva in Sderot, explained his decision to take part in the Chareidi protest against the arrests of bnei yeshivos in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.

“I see it as a great zechus to join the mass tefillah,” Rabbi Fendel said. “Hakadosh Baruch Hu doesn’t reject the tefillah of many.”

Rabbi Fendel slammed “the military-legal system for trying to chase down and arrest yeshivah bochurim without finding a solution, without understanding or working with the public, without seeking the right path within the IDF for those who are not learning, and without developing alternative programs.”

“We know this is an attempt to bring down the right-wing government—an attempt to divide and fracture the religious and faith-based public,” Rabbi Fendel added.

“This is a protest against arrests that serve no purpose other than to help the left win elections and deepen the divisions within our people.”

Rabbi Fendel also warned that if, chalilah, a government were to be formed without Torah representation or without an understanding of the importance of limmud Torah, the next to be targeted would be the Hesder yeshivos.

“It won’t help to remind anyone of the pure korbanos—the many fallen soldiers who came from our own Batei Medrash, including ours,” he emphasized. “They will only seek to harm the rebirth of kedushah, this neis of so many people learning Torah.”

My summary of the opposite logic:

  • First, they came for the Charedim.
  • And I did not speak out.
  • Because I was not Charedi.
  • Then they came for Hesder.
  • And there was no one left.
  • To speak out for me.

(And we mentioned this rabbi before here.)