Posted on 11/07/2025 10:49:35 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Some 200,000 ultra-Orthodox men blocked the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon for a “million man” protest against military conscription. The gathering saw protesters attack journalists, and hundreds clashed with police as the event came to an end.
A 20-year-old man fell to his death from an unfinished high-rise building in the city center, where several ultra-Orthodox youths had gathered on several floors. Police later said they were investigating the death as a possible suicide.
The fall victim was later identified by Hebrew media outlets as Menachem Mendel Litzman.
As word of his death spread, the rally organizers declared the event over and urged participants to disperse safely, even as more than a dozen youth remained at the top of the building under construction.
The protest, billed as a prayer rally, was noted to be a rare show of unity among the various sects and streams of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, which do not often mingle with one another, and amounted to one of the largest displays of power by the community in recent years.
It was contrasted by another ultra-Orthodox event in the city just hours earlier, when reservists of the IDF’s new Haredi brigade stood for a ceremony at the Western Wall after completing their training.
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Posted earlier on FR that in New York City also, thousands of Orthodox Jews showed up a few weeks ago to the Israeli consulate to protest the same thing.
They need to put down the Talmud and pick up a Tavor.
The Orthodox in NYC are the Jews who voted for “Killer Cuomo,” this week.
THEY WISH FOR THE BENEFITS OF THE IDF...BUT THEY REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE???
SOUNDS A LITTLE ARROGANT
They are a growing political force. The Haredim, their culture, their non-centralized structure, and existence and growth throughout parts of the Western world remind me a lot of the Amish.
Those guys must be real jerks.
Everyone knows that only anti-semites criticize the 1948 UN created government of Israel.
Their reasons for avoiding military service seem very like the Amish attitudes toward many aspects of secular culture.
They should send them all to Gaza...fight or die...see what happens when you refuse to defend yourself and demand others do it for you.
This way to the train........ SMDH!
Opus?
< shrug >
Not my country, not my problem.
“Only 1/3 Jewish voters voted for Mamdani.
In Orthodox neighborhoods, including one that is 96% Jewish, the vote was 96% for Cuomo.”
Do you have a problem with the truth?
Certain sects of Hasid (a subset of Orthodox) in Israel oppose the secular state of Israel, as it is their theological belief that the state should not be formed until the Messiah forms it.
Modern Orthodox and even most non-Hasidic Orthodox do not have this opinion.
Depends on what the context of the truth is. There are “orthodox” and there are orthodox. Using “orthodox” as a blanket statement over very different groups (e.g. Haredim, who are typically anti-Zionist) is misleading.
The poster thinks not throwing a vote away on Sliwa, as requested by President Trump, was bad by the only non-Mandami group in NYC (the Jewish vote in NYC).
Really, he just has a problem with Jews.
Sorry; wrong thread.
Pathetic cowards. They can serve in the defense forces and study too.
They are very conservative. I the US, they vote almost 100% Republican. But their religious belief is that they should NOT serve in military.
Kind of hard to square.
Since they are pretty big group in Israel (about 14%), they cannot be ignored (unlike Amish). Maybe they should be treated like conscientious objectors and do some charity work instead fighting, but I think, they are against it too.
What I know, the ones in Israel, they believe that their men should do practically nothing, but full time study Talmud.
They live on charity and women’s work.
But they are having a lot of children, so they are growing in numbers.
I admire their religious dedication, but I also understand that the rest of Israelites do not really want them free load.
Hard to square?!
A lot of our conscientious objectors, including many Amish, served in non combat supportive roles during the World Wars.
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