The Jewish Guardian was an English-language anti-Zionist periodical that appeared during the 70s and 80s. It contained a rich treasury of articles by famous rabbis as well as historians and activists, detailing the Torah view on the issues of the time as well as analyses of the history of Zionism. It was mailed out to subscribers and reached a wide variety of Jews from all communities – fulfilling a similar function to True Torah Jews in the pre-internet age. We thank Hashem that this archive of Torah thought has now become available in pdf format, and we have made it accessible here.
Issue 1 April 1974
A Call From Jerusalem, by Rabbi Amrom Blau
Bout of Agony, by Emile Marmorstein
A Plea for Our Rights, by Rabbi Moshe Hirsch
Meah Shearim Centennial Hears Calls for Jerusalem Internationalization
Political Zionists and the State of Israel (Moral Issues) Part 1, by Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch
Neturei Karta Petition to the U.N. – 1949
Excerpts of Perfidy, by Ben Hecht
The Teheran Children
Issue 2 – July 30, 1974
Reb Amrom’s Last Request – A Letter to President Nixon
Reb Amrom’s Last Demonstration – Details of his Final Days, by Rabbi Moshe Hirsch
An Interview with Reb Amrom and Rabbi Moshe Hirsch
Letter to the Editor, by Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal
Political Zionists and the State of Israel (Moral Issues) Part 2, by Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch
The First Orthodox Jew Murdered by the Zionists (DeHaan), by Shlomo Israel
Who are the Real Terrorists, by Yosef Becher
Issue 3 – November 10, 1974
Statement to the UN Special Committee on Palestine, by Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky
Memorandum to King Hussein in 1924, by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonenfeld
Champion of Truth: Reb Amrom Blau, by Emile Marmorstein
Declaration Regarding the White Flag Demonstration, by Rabbi Amrom Blau
Aguda, Mizrachi and Zionism, by Moshe Schonfeld
Political Zionists and the State of Israel (Moral Issues) Part 3, by Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch
Letter by Moussa Kazzem Pasha el Husseini, mayor of Jerusalem, to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonenfeld regarding the murder of DeHaan
The Orthodox Exodus from the State of Israel, by Pinchus Eliyohu
Issue 4 – February 1975
Memorandum on Jerusalem to the United Nations (Nov. 1947), by Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky
Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl: J’accuse, by Sigmond Forst
Letter to the Times of London, by Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld
In Place of an Editorial: An Interview with Rabbi Moshe Hirsch on Arafat
Political Zionists and the State of Israel (Moral Issues) Part 4, by Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch
Russian Aliya, by Daniel David
Editorial: Gestapo Practices – the Seizure of Religious Girls for the Army
Issue 5 – June 1975
Moreinu Reb Amram, by I. Domb
Political Zionism and the State of Israel (Moral Issues) Part 5: Zionism in Soviet Russia, by Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch
Defiance, a poem by Emil Marmorstein
A Martyr’s Message: DeHaan, by Emil Marmorstein
Jewish Leadership: Ad in the NY Times
In Support of the Vaad Ha’ir Ashkenazi of Jerusalem, submitted by Agudath Israel to the Permanent Mandates Commission in 1925
The Millions that Could Have Been Saved: Part 1, by I. Domb
Call to Rescue the Beth Yehudis school from Menachem Porush
Issue 6 – Nov. 1, 1975
Truth and Peace, by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonenfeld
Principles and Definitions, by G. Neuberger
The Millions that Could Have Been Saved: Part 2, by I. Domb
The Holy Land Struggle, by Pinchas Eliyahu
A Review of “The Transformation” From Down Under, by Mark Braham
Political Zionism and the State of Israel (Moral Issues) Part 6: Zionist Propaganda, by Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch
A Martyr’s Message: DeHaan Part 2, by Emil Marmorstein
Letters to the Editor, by David U, Dr. M. Sifman, Y. Friedman, Hershel Finkelstein, Joseph Saidel, Mrs. Leah B., Mrs. N. Mandel, Zev C., Sam Osdoba, Morris F., Yair Svoray,
Issue 7 – May 30, 1976
Letter to Ambassador Guiringaud, President of the Security Council of the UN, regarding a slaughterhouse in Jerusalem, by Rabbi Uri Blau
Letter to Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the UN, regarding Zionist hoodlums treading on the Temple Mount
The West Bank Riots, the Western Wall and the Riots of 1929, by Pinchas Eliyahu
The Confusion of a Former Zionist, by Daniel Ben David
Our Stand, by Yosef Becher
The Position of Religion in Eretz Israel Today, by Rav Moshe Sternbuch
In Thy Truth: Spotlight on The Jewish Press – Part 1, by Jacob Kohn
The Millions that Could Have Been Saved: Part 3, by I. Domb
The Jewish State and the State of the Jew, by Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch
Issue 8 – July 1976
An Appeal to Human Conscience: Write to the Israeli Ambassador to Protest the Closing of a Slaughterhouse
The Position of Religion in Eretz Israel Today: Part 2, by Rav Moshe Sternbuch
A Soviet Jew Speaks Out on Demonstrations: They are Counter-Productive
Reb Amram’s Charity: Reprinted from the Jewish Digest
In Thy Truth: Spotlight on The Jewish Press – Part 2, by Jacob Kohn
Announcement that Campers and Staff Must Not Go to Woodbourne on Motzaei Shabbos
The 24th, by Dr. Yaakov Yisroel DeHaan
Abortive Efforts, on the legalization of abortion in the Zionist state, by Ira Axelrod
Editorial: The Entebbe Raid Seen Through the Eyes of the Torah, Part 1
Issue 9 – September 1976
Letter Signed by Roshei Yeshiva Against Children Going to Town
The Pogrom in Bnei Brak: Secularists Battle Against Street Closures on Shabbos
The Equal Rights Amendment – an Affront to Tznius
Editorial: The Entebbe Raid Seen Through the Eyes of the Torah, Part 2
In Thy Truth: Spotlight on The Jewish Press – Part 3, by Jacob Kohn
Sacrifice: The Sinking of the Patria, by Emile Marmorstein
The Position of Religion in Eretz Israel Today: Part 3, by Rav Moshe Sternbuch
Hisachdus Harabbonim Speaks Out on the Confusion of Entebbe (Poster In Hebrew with English translation)
Issue 10 – January 1977
‘Let My People Go’ – to Where? by Shlomo Israel
The Equal Rights Amendment: A Reply to J. J. Fishbein, Editor of the Chicago Sentinel
Lucrative Occuptations: On the Role of Women in Judaism, by Reb Uriel Zimmer
In Thy Truth: Spotlight on The Jewish Press – Part 4, by Jacob Kohn
Portions of a Human Being – Autopsies at Hadassah
Issue 11 – April 1977
Rather than Transgress (Yehareg V’al Yaavor): Drafting Girls
Israeli Lobbyist I.L. Kenen: The Big Lie (a response to Neturei Karta’s ad in the Washington Star showing that American Zionist opposed admission of Jewish refugees during WWII – see end of next issue)
On Zionism and Zionists (Omer Ani Maasai Lamelech), by Rav Elchonon Wasserman
News in Brief: The Agudah Elections
Hadassah Hospital Revisited
Fight Intensifies Over Equal Rights Amendment, by Shlomo Israel
What Not to Do in Your Spare Time, by Reb Uriel Zimmer
What Legal Authorities Say About Rescission of support for the Equal Rights Amendment
Vaad Leharomas Keren Hatorah (against immoral magazines sold in Jewish stores)
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein’s Letter on conscription of girls
The Final Judgment – a girl who refused to serve in the army is sentenced to a year in prison
The Holocaust Victims Accuse: advertisement
Issue 12 – July 1977
A Call to the Jewish People Everywhere, in light of Agudah’s joining the Begin government, to ensure that yeshivos remain independent (English and Hebrew)
From Herzl to Jabotinsky to Begin: The Road to “Churban” by Yosef Becher
Agudas Israel Joining the Government: Permitted or Strictly Prohibited, by Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch (English and Hebrew)
On Zionism and Zionists (Omer Ani Maasai Lamelech), by Rav Elchonon Wasserman – Part 2
Likud “Concessions” and Agudah Lies
As I Was Saying: The Czar, Hitler and Amin, by Mark Braham
The Holocaust Victims Accuse, Reviewed by Shlomo Israel
In Thy Truth: Spotlight on The Jewish Press – Part 5, by Jacob Kohn
Letter to the Editor on the Equal Rights Amendment, by State Senator Karen Burstein
An Appeal to the World’s Conscience – ad in the Washington Star on Zionist obstruction of rescue efforts
Announcement that Campers and Staff Must Not Go to Woodbourne on Motzaei Shabbos
Issue 13 -September 1977
Call from Central Rabbinical Congress, against the Agudah’s joining the Begin government
Where Did We Get the Right to Give Honor to the Wicked? by the Chofetz Chaim
From Herzl to Jabotinsky to Begin: The Road to “Churban” by Yosef Becher
Some Skeletons in the Zionist Cupboard – A review of Desmond Stuart’s book Theodor Herzl, by Mark Braham
The Agudah Coverup on Women’s Conscription, by Shlomo Israel
Amending the Law of Return (Who is a Jew) – Is this the salvation of Jewry? by Reb Moshe Sternbuch
Do Not Go to College! an English translation of a speech by Reb Moshe Feinstein, sponsored by the Bnei Yeshivos
Yemenite Jewry’s Holocaust
The Murder of Rabbi Yackov Salim Grafi
Letters to the Editor: Mrs. E. P. Conolley, R. Francis Johnson, M. G. Jankowski, C. W. Owens, Mordechai Phillips, A. Duncan
Israel, Torah and I, by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
I am Solomon, by Rabbi Amram Blau
Issue 14 – January 1978
Peace, Peace but there is no Peace (on the Begin-Sadat peace process)
Begin’s Emissary to Cairo Exposed as Advocate of Anti-Semitism
Letter and Memorandum to President Carter
Verbatim Record of the UN meeting on July 16, 1947, at which Rabbi Dushinsky spoke
Minutes of the League of Nations, Oct. 1, 1924, at which the Ashkenazic Community of Jerusalem requested recognition as separate community from the Zionists
Call from Central Rabbinical Congress, against the Agudah’s joining the Begin government
Zion or Zionism, by Rav Simon Schwab
Leumi = National – the Connection Between Bank Leumi and Zionism, from the Jerusalem Post
The Agudah Bluff – the Agudah convention in Atlantic City and the Begin government
What about the religious promises? (Hebrew with English translation – Agudah complains that Begin is not keeping his word to them)
From Digleinu, on unkept election promises, by Moshe Schonfeld
Letter to Reb Moshe Feinstein on the drafting of girls for national service, by Rabbi Refoel Soloveitchik
Appeal for Neturei Karta
The RCA and the Chambermaids (exposing the unorthodox policies of RCA, OU and YU)
The “Terrorist” proclaimed as the “Messiah” exposed! A list of NY Times articles on Irgun terror
Reb Elchonon Wasserman: Omer Ani Maasai Lamelech
Volume 2, Number 2 – November 1978
Yechezkel Hanovi: And You Want To Inherit The Land?
Propaganda: A Review of Toras Reb Amrom and history of Neturei Karta, by Emile Marmorstein
Terror Out of Zion (on Begin and his Irgun), by J. Bowyer Bell, Reviewed by the Guardian
My Visit With King Faisel, by Dr. Yackov Yisroel DeHaan
Excerpts of a Statement by the Orthodox Community, Presented to the Anglo American Committee of Inquiry for Palestine, Jerusalem, March 1946
Some of My Best Friends are Nazis (on Zionist Nazi collaboration), by N. Glaser
Excerpts of an Address by Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois against abortions
Anti-abortion cartoon
Letter from Bnei Hayeshivos to Young Israel members to protest their honoring of Joseph Brovich as Man of the Year
NBC’s Holocaust, a critique of the television documentary, by Shlomo Israel
Volume 2, Number 3 – November 1979
Theology, by Emile Marmorstein
“Cool But Frum” – exposing Camp Bnos and other Agudah scandals, by Bnei Yeshivos
Shocking Brutality Against Two Yeshiva Students by Jerusalem Police on Ramot Road, by Tzvi Rosen
Letter by Pesach Levy against Rabbi Moshe Sherer of the Agudah
Jerusalem, by Stuart M. Plotkin, regional vice president of NCSY
In Thy Truth: Spotlight on The Jewish Press, by Jacob Kohn
The Real Danger to Judaism: The Reform Movement or Agudas Israel? by Shlomo Israel
Three Books are Opened 30 Years After the Victory Over the Nazis: The Last Escape, by Reb Moshe Schonfeld
Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Public Inquiry, Radio Station 3CR Melbourne, by Mark Braham
Excerpts from Vayoel Moshe, by the Satmar Rebbe
Poster Against an Eiruv in Brooklyn
Volume 2, Number 4 – March 1980
A Speech on Zionism by Rabbi Mordechai Gifter
Speech by Rabbi Elya Svei
On Zionist Nazi collaboration, by N. Glaser
Sherer is an Honorable Man, by Pinchus David
The Facts on Ramot and the Graves of Tannaim and Amoraim – from the Jewish Press and the Algemeiner Journal
Letter to President Carter against Elie Wiesel
The Chazon Ish on the Zionist State and the Zionists
A Chapter From a New Book: Genocide in the Holy Land, by Reb Moshe Schonfeld
Poster Against an Eiruv in Brooklyn
Volume 2, Number 5 – March 1982
Congressional Record, proceedings of the 97th Congress, reproduces a letter from Neturei Karta on religious persecution in Jerusalem
Review of Genocide in the Holy Land, by Reb Moshe Schonfeld
Who Has Destroyed More, The Arabs Or The Zionists? by Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman in 1929
Rabbi Uri Blau in Prison
The Intent of “Heaven at Bay” by Emile Marmorstein
Letter to the President of the UN Security Council Asking that Jerusalem be Internationalized, by Rabbi Uri Blau
Letter Against Driving Cars, by the Satmar Rebbe
In Reply to a Rosh Yeshiva about “Sherer is an Honorable Man” by Pinchus David
Protest Poster Against the Jewish Press and the Algemeiner Journal for insulting a Gadol Hador, by Bnei Hayeshivos (Hebrew)
Is Elie Wiesel’s “Unconquerable Spirit” Artscroll’s Mesorah? by Shlomo Israel
Better any Devil Than Yassir Arafat (History of Begin and Shamir in the Irgun and Stern Gang) by L. Glazer
As I Was Saying, by Mark Braham
Press Release Demanding the Return of the Occupied Terroritories, by Rabbi C. H. Roth
Address Against Zionism, by Rabbi Leo Breslauer of Cong. Kehillas Yaakov of Washington Heights
Israel and the Olympic Games, by Mark Braham
Letter to Reb Moshe Feinstein, asking for his help fighting Touro College, signed by 19 roshei yeshivos
Volume 2, Number 6 – Fall 1982
“Let Us Go Out and Surrender to Them”: It’s Time to Call it Quits
The Lubavitcher Rebbe Rebbe Sholem Ber zt”l on the Zionists, Zionism and the State
Degradation: Words of Truth from Harav Hagaon Rabbi Refoel Halevi Soloveitchik Shlita, son of the Gaon and Chasid the Brisker Rov zt”l (Against Agudas Yisroel)
Editorial from the Kol Yisroel in 1931 on Soccer Games on Shabbos and Asking the Mufti’s Help in Stopping Them (English and Hebrew)
PLO’s Future, by Danny Rubinstein (NY Times)
Averting Their Eyes (Begin claims not to be responsible for the massacre in Lebanon) by Anthony Lewis, NY Times
Why Must Jewish and Arab Blood Be Shed? (NY Times ad, with piece by Reb Amram Blau)
A Protest (against Rabbi Meir Schlesinger, Rosh Yeshiva of Shalavim and the Poalei Agudas Yisroel), by Rav Chaim Shaul Karelitz, nephew of the Chazon Ish
A Protest (against an article in Digleinu praising Zionism), by Rav Chaim Shaul Karelitz, nephew of the Chazon Ish
Memo Submitted to the UN by the Jordanian Ambassador, asking the Secretary General to pay attention to Neturei Karta’s complaint against the brutal police repression of their community
Letter to Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the UN, by Rabbi Uri Blau
Letter to King Hussein of Jordan, by Rabbi Uri Blau
The Criminal Face of Menachem Porush of Agudah and of their hero Sharon, from the book “Meyer Lansky”
Letter signed by Palestinian mayors of West Bank towns, distinguishing between Judaism and Zionism, written after a visit to their homes by a Neturei Karta delegation
Because you have defiled the land, it will spew you forth (NY Times ad)
Call from Central Rabbinical Congress of the US and Canada against Zionism, Agudah and the Begin government
Statement of Principles (NY Times Ad by Central Rabbinical Congress 9/30/82)
Political Plan of Orthodox Jewry to Construct a Mutual Understanding with the Arab World (in 1924)
Volume 2, Number 7 – Summer 1983
And You Think You Will Inherit The Land? on the prophecies of Yechezkel and Yirmeyahu
The Fifth of Iyar is a Yahrzeit, by Rabbi David Cohen at the Torah Umesorah convention of 1983
Zionism and the Holocaust, by Mark Braham
Rabbi Weissmandl’s letters to Nathan Schwalb of Hechalutz (Zionist office in Geneva)
Political Plan of Orthodox Jewry to Construct a Mutual Understanding with the Arab World (in 1924) – Part 2
Drasha on Parshas Pinchas, by Rabbi Yitzchok Dov Koppelman, rosh yeshiva of Lucerne
To Clarify Our Views, by Rabbi Chaim Shaul Karelitz
Might Makes Wrong, by Anthony Lewis (NY Times, on the Lebanon War)
Divert Aid for Israel to Rebuild Lebanon, by George W. Ball (NY Times)
French ad by Neturei Karta in Le Monde
Patience With Israel is Running Out, by Christopher H. Phillips
“In the Name of G-d, Go!” by Anthony Lewis
Volume 2 Number 8 – Spring 1984
Warsaw Ghetto Revolt True or Fiction? The Torah View
May Jews Wage War or Battles in Our TIme, by the Satmerer Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of blessed memory (excerpted from Al Hageulah V’al Hatmuroh)
Torah Comments During the Zionist War in Lebanon, by Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, from a speech given at the yahrtzeit of his uncle, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum
Three Questions and Answers on Zionism and the Zionists, by the Lubavitcher Rebbe Reb Sholom Ber Scheersohn of Blessed Memory
Eretz Yisroel or Torah: What has Priority?
Political Plan of Orthodox Jewry to Construct a Mutual Understanding with the Arab World (in 1924) – Part 3
Artscroll’s Perfidy – Against “Guardian of Jerusalem,” the pro-Zionist biography of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
Letter by Reb Elchonon Wasserman
Letter by Reb Amram Blau
Volume 2 Number 9 – Fall 1985
Letter to George Schultz, secretary of state
Terrorism: Is Counter Violence the Answer? The True Torah Approach – An Open Letter to the United States Government (Including a Detailed Explanation of the Law “If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first”)
The Israeli Air Raid Cannot Be Condoned, By Lloyd N. Cutler (NY Times)
Millions for Mengele, but nothing for the Jews of Europe (Min Hameitzar, by Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl, Part 1)
Jewish Life in the Arab and Islamic World: Past, Present and Future – Part 1 (page 18 missing)
Israel Bites into Bacon (The Guardian of London)
On the Israeli Pork Industry, from the London Times
The Kidnapping and Sale of Yemenite Children: Excerpts from Genocide in the Holy Land
Volume 2 Number 10 – Winter 1986
Who are the real terrorists?
The Temple Mount (ad published in NY Times in 1978; quote from Rabbi Sonenfeld
Letter from the Central Rabbinical Congress (against Rabbi Meir Kahane and the settlers)
Jewish Life in the Arab and Islamic World: Past, Present and Future – Part 2
The Holocaust Victims Accuse the Joint, the UJA, the American and World Jewish Congress, the Histadrut, and the entire so called Jewish-Zionist establishment
Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl’s personal story (Min Hameitzar) – Part 2
The Mourning That Never Ends, for 500 “Disappeared” in Israel (NY Times Ad about the Yemenite children)
The Kidnapping and Sale of Yemenite Children (Excerpts from Genocide in the Holy Land)
Letter to the editor of the Jewish week, protesting the editorial against Neturei Karta, by Lawrence Reisman
Volume 2 Number 11 – Summer 1986
In Israel a Synagogue Burns Too
Israel Versus the Jewish Woman (on the rise of rape and immodesty in the Zionist state), by Pinchus David
A History of the Israeli Army: Sex and Social Life in the IDF by Zeev Schiff
Murder in Israel
Poster Against Registering for the Army (23 Nissan 5708 – 1948), signed by Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (Hebrew and English)
What Makes a Jewish Organization Jewish? (on Marvin Hier and the Simon Wiesenthal Center) by Morton Rabinowitz
Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl’s personal story (Min Hameitzar) – Part 3
Jewish Life in the Arab and Islamic World: Past, Present and Future – Part 3
Volume 3 Number 1 – Spring 1987
A Slave Who Becomes King, A Maid Who Inherits Her Mistress (against Rabbi Menashe Klein for flattering Elie Wiesel)
Against a Kinah for the Holocaust (Hebrew)
The Iraqi Jews
Agudath Israel (Denies Statement Attributed to them by Neturei Karta)
The Agudah and Me-Too
Advertisement for the book “Genocide in the Holy Land” including quote from the Agudah that “the Zionists are the most dangerous enemies of the Jewish people”
The [NY] Times Refuses to Record Fact Its Ad [Paid for by Neturei Karta] Misquoted Agudas Israel against Israel, from the Jewish Week
The Rise and Fall of the Jews of Djerba and Tunis (Part 4)
Our Master Reb Amram, by I. Domb – reprinted from the Jewish Guardian volume 1, issue 5
The Pollard Affair
Volume 3 Number 2 – Summer 1987
Declaration by Agudath Yisroel to the Moslem Congress in Eretz Yisroel (1931)
The Rise and Fall of the Jews of Djerba and Tunis (Part 5)
Poster Against Concerts, by Bnei Hayeshivos (Yiddish)
Poster Against Heretical Textbooks (English)
Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl’s personal story (Min Hameitzar) – Part 4
Agudath Israel
Americans Vow to Locate Missing Yemenite Children (from the Jerusalem Post)
$5000 Reward for the person who arranges an interview with any man or woman of the Yemenite “Disappeared” (NY Times Ad)