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| Housing Minister Litzman resigns in protest of holiday lockdown |
| 2020-09-13 |
| [YNet] - In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Litzman said lamented the fact that the lockdowns would prevent many Israelis, including tens of thousands of Jews who don’t go to a synagogue during most of the year, from attending one of the main Jewish services of the year. Some supplementary links in comments |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #14 Chabad emissary infected with coronavirus: Don't come to Uman |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 10:03 |
| #13 😃 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 09:33 |
| #12 Touché |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-13 09:33 |
| #11 ^And I was joking back - a running joke, Clem. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 09:31 |
| #10 God damn, grom, it is just a joke...just having a little fun. (And I know Russians don't drink potato vodka.) |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-13 09:26 |
| #9 Russians don't drink potato vodka (unless there's nothing else - like diluted ethanol or aftershave). Germans do. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 09:14 |
| #8 I will...over some "potato juice" ( or "wheat juice", if you prefer ). |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-13 08:54 |
| #7 #6 Meditate on "(sounds familiar?)". Just goes to show, if there is an ecological niche - somebody will move to occupy it. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 08:49 |
| #6 any neighborhood they settle in, they try to drive everyone else out. Sounds a lot like "White Flight" from the 1960-1970's. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-13 08:42 |
| #5 Gracias |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 08:39 |
| #4 While all Israelis recognize that ultra-orthodox are a problem (especially the religious Jews whom they consider apostates), most politicians preferred to kick the can down the road. I recommend universal K-12 ultra-orthodox cultural and awareness studies as a potential solution. [snark off] But seriously, thanks for this most enlightening insight. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-13 08:37 |
| #3 Perhaps I should add a bit of background. Ultra-Orthodox believe three things supersede everything else. (a) Holly writings study (albeit other streams in Judaism point out that rote-memorization is not study). (b) Having lots of children to annul the effects of Holocaust. Finally, (c) they believe that proximity of less orthodox Jews harms their holiness - bad example to their kids. As a result of (a), they don't serve in IDF and (most of them) live on welfare - masked as stipends to life-long yeshiva students. As a result of (b) they're desperately poor. So, the main goals of ultra-orthodox parties for the last two generations is increasing public "stipends" to yeshiva students. As a result of (c) any neighborhood they settle in, they try to drive everyone else out. However, during the last generation, the ultra-orthodox been the balance between the Left and Right blocks and used it to squeeze concessions (sounds familiar?). While all Israelis recognize that ultra-orthodox are a problem (especially the religious Jews whom they consider apostates), most politicians preferred to kick the can down the road. Lockdown is especially troublesome for them because their yeshivas squeese a lot of students in a classrooms where they "study" holy texts by singsong chorus reading aloud. The above cited results from MI analysts must be especially grim to cause Bibi to break up with them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 08:04 |