Posted on 09/26/2024 12:47:38 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
I have studied with Chabad for many years. I used to follow popular internet Rabbi YY Jacobson faithfully until he developed Trump Derangement Syndrome years ago. So I was happy to see Berel Solomon squeeze rationality out of YY:
https://youtu.be/I_LrcIxJljg?si=BWaHy12hZRRsxkSp
thanks for correcting the newbie
To document the current status:
“Religious Women’s Service in the IDF
Another issue related to the issue of joint service in the IDF is the significant increase in recent years in the number of religious women who choose to serve in the army. According to the Security Service Law, religious women are exempt from service in the IDF. Indeed, most of them have traditionally applied for national service instead. In recent years, however, there has been a significant increase both in the number of religious women who choose military service and in the religious diversity of the schools from which religious women enlist. In June 2019, it was reported that the IDF estimates that within five years the number of the religious women serving in the various units in the IDF would double.
Although the issue of joint service is officially concerned with the welfare of male religious soldiers and the need to allow them respectful service in accordance with their halakhic limitations, it seems that the fact that more and more religious women are violating the rabbinical directive not to enlist in the army is the core of the rabbis’ opposition of the expansion of women’s service in the IDF.
Even though the Joint Service Order does not address the question of women’s service in the IDF and the expansion of the units open to them, in both the public debate and the IDF’s discussions the question of joint service is linked with the fundamental issue of women’s service in various units, and mainly in combat ones.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/israel-defense-forces
More here:
“By Uri Kaufman
December 14, 2023
“Shall your brothers go to war and you remain here?”
Those were the words that the prophet Moses used to chastise ancient Hebrews who preferred to avoid conflict and settle outside the Promised Land. And that is the question that more and more Haredi (sometimes called ultra-Orthodox) Jews in Israel are asking themselves.
When secular Israelis complain about their fraught relationship with Haredim, the refusal of the latter to serve in the army is usually the complaint that tops the list. But since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, over 2,000 Haredi men have volunteered to serve in the IDF, according to Rear Adm. Danial Hagari. The first cohort has already finished basic training and is now in the field.”
https://forward.com/opinion/573598/haredi-secular-jews-idf-israel/
If they don’t like it, they can just find a lady of childbearing age and have an erection, not that that would ever occur to them.
Social Justice and Black Lives Matter more!
(Nuts!)
Because suicide is a sin.
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