Reply To: The Haredim are the most voluntary sector in the State of Israel!

This thread is so full of bias and ignorance, it’s really sad.
Very few Chareidi men and women have spare time and therefore have empty hours on their hands to volunteer. Many of the chareidi men who work, spend their “free time” after work learning – going to a shiur, learning with a chavrusa, etc. and those who are full-time learning and learning many more hours than your average working 9-5 working man – 3 sedarim a day. So if such a hard-working man volunteers once a week for Lev l’Achim, for example, he is being very generous with his time. Ditto for chareidi women, many of whom are juggling a demanding job with a large family plus giving some volunteer time to bake a cake for Ezer miTzion, prepare food for their local chessed organization to help a mother after birth, learn in person or on the phone with another less knowledgeable woman, do Bikur Cholim or other such volunteer work.
I have also heard (from a Reform Jew who has a fundraising consulting company) that the more religious the Jew, the more tzedaka s/he gives in proportion to his income.
The non-chareidi public doesn’t subsidize chareidi healthcare and education from their salaries and from VAT any more than the chareidi public subsidizes health, education, the theatre and the defense budget from their salaries and VAT although the salary/VAT ratio may be different.
In addition to more charity and volunteerism in the chareidi sector, I’ll just add that the largest chessed organizations – who serve the entire public – were founded and are run by chareidim.
But sure, if you’re looking to put down the chareidi public, you’ll add some more blah blah and carry on with your skewed views.
In Hashem’s view there are no such labels as chiloni, dati and chareidi.
After all is said and done, when the neshama leaves the body, the only thing that remains and what counts is what the combined efforts of body and soul during our lifetime accomplished in building a relationship with Hashem. That relationship is created by using our free choice to do His Will (i.e. Torah and mitzvos – both the law and the spirit of the law) – with no labels attached.