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ZSK said – We’d can be sure we’d be better off if the entire Charedi and Chassidish Tzibburim publicly admitted their past positions toward Zionism were a Hora’as sha’ah that are no longer relevant and instead joined the rest of the Orthodox Tzibbur, got jobs, helped the RZ community turn the IDF into something respectable and paid taxes like they are supposed to.
Past issues with Zionism are not the reason for the present issues you mentioned. Most Chassidim do have jobs. There are different issues in Eretz Yisroel and Chutz Laaretz.
We’d also be better off the RZ and MO communities stopped compromising on Orthodox values to please their non-Orthodox and gentile neighbors, coworkers, colleagues, etc.
The main thing preventing them from doing so even more is that they see the example of the Chareidim. (Something Reb Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik said in his day about American MO and Satmar…)
And we’d be better off if the non-Orthodox communities just admitted they are essentailly bagel flavored progressivism and not attempt to speak for Judaism.
They have no way of figuring that out on their own, because for the most part they know nothing about real Judaism. The solution is not to ‘accept’ their matzav, but to be מקרב them. The rest will die out within three generations from assimilation, like half of them already did.