Joseph: You took those figures from a very suspect Pew Survey. 81% of orthodox kids are chareidi?? If you beliive that, then all the Day Schools in the US are chareidi-certainly not the case. In any case, I don’t beleive in polls anyway-see politics-. I only trust actual numbers. Here in the US this cannot be counted accurately but in israel, where there are elections- one can. Hence my comment about the knesset figures. Incidentally , there were not ‘millions of Russians’olim, as you write, and your attack on Russian jews, who were in the dark and in a place of shmad for three generations worthy of any jew. You probably would have thrown away your black hat and shtreimel at the first decree from the Communists. Respect the jews who fought hard to remain jewish.
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