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yichusdik
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Health, though I have spent a lot of time in Israel over the years, and done a lot of work for Israel both there and abroad, I do not live there, never have, and never said so.

Please cease using such intemperate words such as accusing me of “cursing out” the Chareidi community. I have never done so. Making the accusation makes you a liar, because you can check each one of my posts for years. I recognize serious problems in the chareidi community, yes. I have grave doubts about many problems in the chareidi community. But I make such criticisms as I have dafka because I know that there is strength and will and virtue in the community to rectify its issues, to eliminate hypocrisy, and stop hemorrhaging its young who cannot abide its contradictions any more. My roots in the chareidi community are at least as deep as those of mine in the Modern Orthodox community.

As for national service, some options have been available for a long time, and these have been rejected for a long time.

I do not use every opportunity to put down chareidi Judaism. There are any number of chareidi-critical topics here that I do not touch, and there are instances where I have agreed with you, or with Choppy, or with Akuperma.