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Efraim's avatar

A group of 'self-appointed rabbis and halachic decisors' who were never elected to any rabbinical position in any community and are therefore forbidden to issue halachic rulings, are dividing the Jewish people and "issuing rulings" on matters of life and death. They "rule" even for those who are not students of their yeshivas and for every observant Jew! Who do they think they are??? They do this without investigating the reality on which they are "ruling" and without providing any halachic source for their "rulings."

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Charles Hall's avatar

Note the relatively small number of conscientious objectors the US had during WW2 compared to the size of the military then.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/conscientious-objectors-civilian-public-service

Even with nearly total conscription of those eligible, the US still had to import hundreds of thousands of guest workers from Mexico, mostly for agricultural work, as the farm workers almost all either volunteered or were drafted into the US military. (Mexico was an actual ally -- it declared war on Germany, Italy, and Japan in May 1942 -- but did not impose conscription and only one Mexican air squadron actually saw combat. My late father in law was one of the US volunteers from a farm family, enlisting in the Marines the week after Pearl Harbor. Interestingly his two daughters would both be born in Mexico.)

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