The Battle of Beit Shemesh
January 4, 2012
Two insightful articles about the horrible situation in Beit Shemesh:
- In Ultra-Orthodox extremism is a reaction to growing reform in the community, on Ha’aretz.com, Yair Ettinger explains that an “extremist minority is much smaller than the large group of ultra-Orthodox women working in high-tech, the thousands of men and women studying at ultra-Orthodox colleges and the men volunteering for special ultra-Orthodox programs in the IDF and civil service.”
- On jpost.com, Natan Slifkin’s Everyone is fighting a different battle in Beit Shemesh explores how many secular Jews possess the absurd belief that all haredim, or even all religious Jews, are of the same mindset as the extremists.
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Beit Shemesh, Chareidim, extremism, Israel, Orthodox Judaisum, tzniut
