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Ezra Brand's avatar

Great line, very true: "necessity is the mother of hashkafic reinvention"

EJV's avatar

Great piece. I’ve been saying this for years, cut off the money. It’s completely hypocritical of these shirkers to take free money from a state they so despise. Enough is enough. Glad people are waking up. A list needs to be circulated of the Rabbis who come to the U.S. begging for money for their anti-Israel Yeshivas.

David Ilan's avatar

Every broken marriage of the reservists due to the stress of non stop service can be laid at the door of those gedolim….

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/knesset-panel-told-of-widespread-marital-financial-strain-among-reservists-families/

Daniel Yehudah Ben Avraham's avatar

The young men holding up the poster may, God forbid, be correct. But not in the way they look at it.

If they and their fellow Charedim are unwilling to be drafted, the time may come when they, and many others, die, if Israel cannot defend itself…

Charles Hall: Were Avraham Avinu to descend from Heaven on a chariot comprised of Clouds of Glory, and attempt to pull any number of learners out of the yeshivot, he would be put into cherem and driven out of town.

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Daniel Yehudah Ben Avraham's avatar

What does he know?!? Did Avraham ever wear a black hat?