Originally, left and right referred to where a delegate sat in the revolutionary French parliament. Jews weren’t allowed to vote or hold office. In the United States, a “left” winger is a “dove” who supportx welfare programs, and a “right” winger is a “hawk” who feels that the poor should pull themselves up by their bootstraps (reflecting the “Protestant” ethic). In Israel, the secular nationalists (descended from the Revisionists and Herut) are “hawks” who emulate the Protestant ethic. While Orthodox tend to be either fanatical doves of fanatical hawks, almost all Orthodox are pro-welfare (after all, we invented entitlements millenia ago), which results in being aligned on these issues with what Americans perceive as the “left” (socialist doves, most Arabs). Given the perception of most rabbanim that Jewish survival is a function of Torah and Mitzvos rather than military skills or an affluent lifestyle for the elites, this is quite logical.

HEY deep, chadorim and chinuch atzmi school are free education in Israel today on level with any other govt school. There are some childcare services that begin at age 4 that are free in some areas. Free medical services and bituach leumi for all religious observers also. Most charadim benefit from low arnona taxes in addt.
Raising the child allowance is fiscially insane and will effect other areas in costs rising.

The Jewish community almost always supports the powers-that-be, whether they be Socialists, Communists, Capitalists, Monarchists, or Muslims, depending on which country is involved.

This is a survival tactic for our small, oppressed minority.

The Israeli establishment is overwhelmingly keftist, with its origins in the communistic Kibbutz System. The Labor Party, and its junior partners in MERETZ have been, and continue to be the ruling class that dominates the sourt system and the media, and the educational system.

Kadima is a fake clone of the Labor party and some Likud turncoats.

So, don’t blame the victims for trying to survive.

You don’t know your “Left” from your “Right!”

It seems that everyone else gets full Socialist benefits–free education, child care. etc.–from the Government, while Hareidim are grudgingly treated as second-class citizens, entitled to only a fraction of what others get.

When Hareidim apply for jobs, the State usually refuses to hire them.

For Shame!