Everyone is Fighting a Different Battle in Beit Shemesh
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(This article appears in Wednesday's edition of The Jerusalem Post.) Everyone agrees that the Battle of Beit Shemesh – my hometown for over a decade – is about a group of hostile, hateful people trying to impose their ideology on a group of nice, normal Jews. But whereas the secular, national-religious and moderate haredim (ultra-Orthodox) think that the group of hostile, hateful people trying to impose their ideology on others are the haredi extremists, mainstream haredim think that the group of hostile, hateful people trying to impose their ideology on others are the secular.
Everyone is Fighting a Different Battle in Beit Shemesh
Everyone is Fighting a Different Battle in…
Everyone is Fighting a Different Battle in Beit Shemesh
(This article appears in Wednesday's edition of The Jerusalem Post.) Everyone agrees that the Battle of Beit Shemesh – my hometown for over a decade – is about a group of hostile, hateful people trying to impose their ideology on a group of nice, normal Jews. But whereas the secular, national-religious and moderate haredim (ultra-Orthodox) think that the group of hostile, hateful people trying to impose their ideology on others are the haredi extremists, mainstream haredim think that the group of hostile, hateful people trying to impose their ideology on others are the secular.