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AddReply(443457,"army","Chaim K","Bnai Brak","05/31/09","Isn\'t there anyone out there old enough to remember or have read that even secular United States din not draft yehiva bochrim during world war II. Halvai that some of you could be aware that each person that sits and learns Torah backs up any number of jewish soldiers in combat.");
AddReply(442735,"I absolutely agree with Prof. Breiman","Batya","Tel Aviv","05/28/09","I absolutely agree with Prof. Breiman\'s excelent aricle.\nIt must be widely distributed.");
AddReply(442434,"Notice that my original comment","","","05/27/09","of yesterday (5/26) was not printed.  Don\'t know why.  As I wrote the Ramat Aviv area of T.A. is notorious for its leftist population. So what\'s new? They hate the Jews; not the Israelis (whatever that means).  Israel is automatically Jewish, whether these anti-semites like it or not!");
AddReply(442411,"#4: SOME serve","Azamin Ippish","galutnya","05/27/09","Far more chareidim avoid service, although the State hardly goes out of its way to make service palatable.  They aren\'t all geonim.\n\nWhile I agree that hasbara is important, indeed critical, Tzahal is probably the most important place to do it.\n\nTorah im derech eretz goes all the way back to Hillel haZaken.  What chutzpah, to spend an entire life in a chair!");
AddReply(442372,"Auto Anti Semitism in Ramat Aviv","David","Rehovot","05/27/09","Unfortunately the very left wing educated liberal anti religious are racists for the most part. Anti Jewish is just one example of this, how about discrimination against Sephardic Jews, or Ethiopian Jews? How about the racism against Jews in the lower socio economic class.\nThey claim to be enlightened, huh! In my book the rest of the world has become enlightened, while these people becoming more backwards every day. \nGo figure Americans have figured out how to elect a Black Muslim for President and they are still making differences between us based on ideology, ethnicity or religiosity.\n\nUnfortunately some of the Charedi Ashkenazim are the same\n\nThe term Ignorant bigots would easily apply here.\n");
AddReply(442347,"I insist: full IDF service","Dr. Ron Breiman","Tel Aviv","05/27/09","I insist: Serving in the IDF is a MUST. The Nachal Haredi is doing that, but most of the Haredim do not. Learning is not a substitute for 3 years of regular military service   miluim.");
AddReply(442278,"Culture shock","Paul S.","Toronto, Canada","05/27/09","In the England my parents grew up in, the small Jewish community lived cheek-by-jowl\nwith each other.  Religious, partially-observant and downright secular lived in the same neighbourhoods.  Needless to say, arguments erupted and \"broygas\" (anger, annoyance) was taken.\nAfter the war, many Jews came to Canada, and with more space, the Jews lived in their own milieus: Orthodox here, partially-observant over there, and seculars elsewhere.  Peace ensued.  Now in Israel old neighbourhoods are again becoming more mixed and \"broygas\" (some pronounce it differently) appears again.  When people learn to mind their own business and be tolerant of others\' differences then the level of \"broygas\" will die down.\nThere are good and bad folks in all groups of Jews. Prejudice and generalizations do not promote understanding.  More \"kiruv\" (outreach) is needed.  Understanding comes from knowing.");
AddReply(442224,"If secular Judaism continued","Anonymous","","05/27/09","the way it was there would be no one to be in the IDF. Thanks to Hareidim, many children are born to populate the country. This is the front line: population! Soon, by 2012, 60% will be Orthodox and with it going and going, almost all of Israel will be religious (Torah loving and practicing at various levels) and they are NOT the ones running after the pals to give away G-d\'s land!!!!");
AddReply(442190,"Anti-Jews in Israel, III","Hilltop Savta","Israel","05/27/09","Finally, I disagree that \'orange-religious scorn orange-secular\'. There is nothing but the greatest respect. We work and live together, and expecially are struggling together for the sake of our homeland.  You have to look no further than your own National Union Party members for evidence of that.  \n\nAm Yisroel Chai!  \n\nNow let\'s get to work on saving Israel.");
AddReply(442182,"Anti-Jews in Israel (continued)","Hilltop Savta","Israel","05/27/09","2) Unlike your claim, Hasidim DO contribute to society, especially through their charities.  For example, have you never had the need for any of the free medical equipment or therapies offered at any of the Yad Sarah centers - winner of the Israel Prize last year?\n3) Hareidi educational system is great. They don\'t have to kowtow to the texts required by the Ministry of Ed.  I taught H.S. English to \"orange\" religious girls. I couldn\'t use wonderful Hassidik textbooks because my high school would lose its accreditation. Instead, there were boyfriend troubles, how far to go, little clothing, lots of skin, and the \'passive tense\' through the Yitzhak Rabin\'s legacy.  Hassidik schools don\'t have to teach Islam in their Arabic classes, or have civics projects about Israeli oppression of the Palestinians. Plus, their schools are safe for kids -little or no violence or drugs. A great education.");
AddReply(442164,"Ha Tikva=the hope ","kate b","uk","05/27/09","The hope of Israel lies in those who actually do and know and continue to learn and teach Torah erroneously called \'settlers\', surely nationhood depends upon keeping national laws and traditions.  Yes, it doesn\'t help in looking scornfully on the secular, or those \'not that religious or who do things slightly differently\', you collect your own manna, a lot or a little - stick up for each other.  There\'s no hope in putting trust in the hopeless: Egypt, U.S. EU, U.N.");
AddReply(442163,"Anti-Jews in Israel","Hilltop Savta","Israel","05/27/09","I was with you about being against anti-semitism until you began painting Hareidim and religious settlers negatively too. You have been duped.\n\n1) Hareidi men do serve in the military if they are not already serving Israel\'s defense by learning Torah full-time.  Have you heard of the Nahal Hareidi (hint) brigades? And before that hareidim joined up with religious Zionists in the chesder units, and before that, the regular IDF. (Look for peyot in old 6-Day-War newsreels.) Both of my elderly chareidi rabbi friends joined the IDF during our past wars, one for over 20 years. (BTW, keeping the Jewish People close to Torah and God is one of our greatest \"defenses\". Who defended us in Gulf War 1, when Sadaam\'s missiles rained down on Ramat Aviv and elsewhere and our IDF stood down.)\n2) Hareidim DO contribute to society, especially through thousands of free charities.\n\n");
AddReply(441935,"\"Ultra-Orthodox Community does not serve in the IDF\"","Kyle","Southpark, CO","05/26/09","What is the \"Nahal Haredi\"? A bunch of Arabs? It seems Ron Breiman has absorbed a part of the lovely Ramat Aviv atmosphere.");
AddReply(441898,"Thank you for writting this article.","","","05/26/09","When I was an Olah chadash, I was neither welcomed or accepted at the Bet Sefer Tichon {High School}that I was enrolled in. Despite what aliya shlichim tell you not everyone is welcome.");
AddReply(441668,"Selbsthass","azamin ippish ","galutnya","05/26/09","It isn\'t new.  It\'s why S.R. Hirsch moved to Frankfurt am Main waaay back in 1851: the inability or unwillingness of the liberal, progressive, reform group to TOLERATE, in the most basic sense, dissent in the form of tzitzit.  They went so far as to try to recruit the municipal  authorities to FORCE the orthodox minority to dress alles in ordnung like guter Deutschers.\n\nHasn\'t changed.  In 1976, I was invited to read Lev. XIX on Yom Kippur at Keneseth Israel in Jenkintown, PA.  ON THE PULPIT, I was given the choice of removing my kippah, or leaving.  There were those in the audience who found such overt Jewishness \"offensive\".\n\nAyn chadash tachat hashemesh, eh?");

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