Rabbi Yehoshua Levin, director and deputy judge of the Jerusalem Court of Magistrates, implicitly criticizes the Haredi leadership, which published proclamations against businessman Rabbi Zvi Białstocki when he appealed to the courts, but responded silently when "important people and community leaders acted according to his example.".
In a letter he sent to attorney Aviad HaCohen, he criticizes his book, which refers to permits in the Haredi sector to go to court. Between the lines, he attacks the conduct of the Ponevezh trial, and accuses that because of the silence in the Haredi public against the hawkish parties going to court, the issue became permissible, contrary to what was ruled in the Shulchan Aruch.
""What ultimately succeeded in the Białystokski affair did not succeed in the Ponivysh affair. For several years now, this yeshiva, considered the flagship of the Lithuanian yeshivas and one of the largest Torah centers in the world, has been tottering... Both sides tried to settle their dispute through arbitration... But when one of them did not like the result, he decided to take the investigation of the conflict 'outside the camp' and transfer it to the decisions of the civil-secular courts. Surprisingly, despite the 'blasphemy' involved, this move passed relatively silently among the Haredi public..."'
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He then criticizes a well-known court, which grants too many permits to go to court:
""Due to all of the above, it will be easily understood that the public permits to go to court in recent years that you have listed in your book as representing the Haredi public and its position, are very inaccurate, when they are all one witness! They were written, said and given by the judges of that 'Beit Din' and its innovative school of thought, only. Contrary to accepted halachic opinion.
""For several years now, public figures and administrators of institutions have been evading any lawsuit brought against them. They have proper connections in that 'court'..."'
