A600KiloBear posted (after the usual antizionist screed):
“As for my information, I am an international entrepreneur and I wanted to establish just the type of program I mentioned in EY. Somehow, four times, my application for certain assistance offered to entrepreneurs planning to emigrate, was ignored or lost. That is the least of the first hand information I have about both what the medine (meaning the “branja”, leftists like Aharon Barak etc who really rule the country, not necessarily Bibi who at least says the right words) wants to do with charedim economically and the present manpower needs of the IDF.”
Ahh, now I understand. you ran afoul of Israeli bureaucracy, and decided that things were difficult for you because of your worldview. Well, welcome to the club. Of course, may of us to whom that has happened stick it our and eventually succeed. And if not, at least they do not hate the entire idea of the country.
“Stick to your science and your lab where perhaps you are doing some good . Your knowledge of history and the world outside your ivory tower is very lacking and your posts only show exactly what I am saying – that MO comes from a desire to partially assimilate and a lack of emunah.”
Although I do stick to my science, like many residents of this country I am actively involved in a great many social issues. (Including education, by the way. And, of course, IDF reserve service.) I also have access to a number of extensive University libraries (US, European and Israeli), of which I make free use. Your slandering of historians with whom you disagree (without showing where they are “biased”) while defending an embittered screenwriter does not exactly give you high recommendations as a student of history–quite the opposite.
As far as my “need to assimilate” and my emunah goes, I live here, not in the Ukraine–. What does that say? In addition, when I work in the US and Europe, I am openly identifiable as a Jew. I fail to understand how that is assimilation.
“But don’t worry, your children will be haredi, even if they are professionals. The arrows are pointing our way “
Will my children be Hareidim–even if they are professionals? I doubt it, but, again, I am not a Navi. I would hope, however, that for the Hareidi children–that they will be professionals –even if they are Hareidi.
Which way are the arrows pointing? I don’t know–stores that sell MP4s on the fringes of Meah Shearim are vandalized and their owners intimidated. Preventing the use of technology is getting more difficult. You can know if a neighbor has a television, and threaten or ostracize him, but media products are becoming more difficult to detect, and the modern world is creepoing, slowly but surely, into Meah Shearim and the center of Bnei Brak. Unless you plan on strip-searching the Yeshiva boys, better get used to the idea. Even worse for your situation-sending women to work and support the men means that they are exposed to the internet in their workplace. Who knows what ideas they will get into their heads? They may find that there is a big world out there–much larger than what they are allowed to participate in by their society. Perhaps they might decide they want a piece of the action?
In other words, if the Hareidim are so confident, why are they so afraid of a little technology? Other ideas, which might prove more attractive?