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The policeman is a witness and is testifying of what he claims he saw. You would probably be advised to come into court with witnesses that you were only stopped (and confirming that stopping was allowed). The officers’ testimony/affidavit is admissable evidence. That they delay notifying you of the charges until it will be hard to respond might violate due process, but they’ve yet to establish a need to email or text you in real time.
In states (such as New York), the court only has to decide if it is more likely that not that the officer was correct (in states in which all traffic offenses are criminal, the burden proof if innocent until proven guilty beyond a resonable doubt).
Responding to BarryLS1.
Correct that few Arabs want a Palestinian State. They want the Arab world (if not the Islamic world) unified as it was (briefly) in the medieval period, so that one can go from Karachi to Rabat, speaking Arab, being Muslim, and being at home.
The Arabs aren’t about to leave. You can either make peace, or keep fighting. To “win” Israel needs to destroy the Islamic world’s ability to wage war, just as the US victory over the Nazis required total conquest. The Israelis are outnumbered roughly 150 to 1 (not including Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia). To compare to North America, the ratio is worse than that facing the Indians (Native Americans) – and guess what their chances of reclaiming their homeland are. Sooner or later Israel will fall, and it will be messy. Already Israelis are increasingly unwilling to serve in their army or to pay taxes sufficient to maintain the army. Already the Muslims have nuclear weapons (remember, Pakistan is Muslim, albeit preoccupied by India for the moment). Israel’s long term future is bleak.
The only agreement acceptable to the otherside is for Israel to cease existing. Thus the best Israel can do is to find a way to cease existing without getting all the Jews of the yishuv destroyed. We need to insist on what is critical (Torah and Mitsvos) and compromise on what is not critical for survival (a flag, having a Jew running the government, using European-American law, etc.).
Of course you can rely on a miracle and hope for divine intervention. Perhaps Herzl and Ben Gurion really were the meshiach (or maybe Netanyahu or Herzog is). However we have no mesoret (tradition) that the meshiach will be fool, so that probably rules them out. For those of us who live in the real world, the best alternative is to make peace, and while the Muslims have never objected to Jews living Torah-based lives, they will never agree to being ruled by Jews so if we want peace, we have to stop trying to rule over them.
And the alternative will be the anhiliation of the yishuv.
Make peace with the Arabs. Stop trying to carve out mini-states and return to the 1918 agreement of one large Islamic state (including at the minimum all Arabs east of Suez) with an autonomous Jewish community (well a well equipped militia – in the middle east such things are normal). If need be, I’ld offer to have Israel agree to adopt Islamic law except for matters where halacha is different (we’ld have to give up ribis, toeiva, etc.).
The current policy of the zionists guarantees permanent warfare which the whole Islamic world, not just the Palestinians but all the Arabs and the many non-Arab countries such as Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. It’s a no-win situation for the zionists. They can never conquer such a large number of people, and if for only a split second the Muslims stop fighting each other, the zionists can and will be destroyed in an instant.
Two names became common a few centuries ago when our population increased and the double names reduce confusion. Otherwise the reason for extra names is adding a name, such as in the case of a dying child in hopes of recovery.
Jews almost never have the ten names. That is a custom of European royalty. I’m fairly certain that even three names is rare (based on looking at shul “aliyah” lists and yizkor placques)..
ubiquitin:
Yes, it is a terrible tragedy. It happened in the past. Unless you can borrow a Tardis and go back and change history, there is nothing to do about it. The goyim have a saying about “crying over spilt milk”
Suggest Americans who are making trouble for American Jews in the 21st century People opposed to bris milah, opposed to aid to Jewish schools, opposed to religious accomodations, etc. You find they are all related to persons who Hitler who have considered Jewish (and that includes President Obama). In the past there was a problem in America from Christians striving for a “Christian America” but that’s changed. Today almost all our problems come from secular Jews and their non-Jewish (halachically) descendants.
Define a Jewish name:
If your kid is separated from you and raised as a goy, and discovers his original name, will it tell him he is really a Yid?
ubiquitin: In America, most Jews gave up on mitsvos and assimilated inot the general population. After a few generations, they are clearly goyim who have some Jewish ancestors. They cease to be anti-semites. The problems American Jews (meaning frum Jews) have, tend to be from people who parents or grandparents “went off the derekh”. In Israel, the secular Jews continue to be vehemently opposed to Torah and Mitsvos, and will continue to do so – unless the leave. They continue to harass us.
It is the American Jews who are “lucky” since our enemies go away after a few generations.
The major source of anti-semitic slurs are assimilated Jews. As they assimilate further they will no longer see themselves as at all connected to Judaism, and like most Americans, will leave us alone.
The Israelis aren’t so lucky, as the zionists have nothing to assimilate into.
By saying we are “American Jews” (with “Jews” as the noun) rather than “Jewish Americans” it suggests we were Jews first, are now in America, but will be somewhere else in the future, but will always be Jews. While we may happily live in America for a while (centuries, millenia, etc.), at some point in the future we will be elsewhere.
Chess began in India during the time of gaonim (or perhaps a bit earlier). It was based on warfare which is most more intricate. The only major changes in rules were at the end of the Middle Ages (period of the last rishonim, early achronim) when the vizier became the queen and become a powerful peace (the bishops also got more powerful, and stalemates became draws instead of an inferior form of checkmate, and tghe game became much shorter). The elephant becoming a bishop didn’t involve a rule change (it came from Europeans not knowing what an elephant looked like, and do a lousy job of pronouncing the Arabic name).
The older version is the one discussed in Ibn Ezra’s treatise. For those who can’t figure out, there is always checkers. For those who chess to be too easy, there is always gemara.
Define “English”? Is “Mosheh” an English name, it is written in the Roman alphabet as pronounced in the English speaking countries, and represents a systematic romanization of the Hebrew. Given that the Roman alphabet, and English in particular, are used for most communciations, everyone ends up with a romanized version of their real name, in this case, ???. Like it or not, in the 21st century ones needs a consistent way to express one’s name in the Roman alphabet, and in most countries, that means the English-version (e.g. with ? romanized as a “sh” rather than “sch” or “ch” or whatever).
For someone named ???? do you mean a name such as Yaakov (a romanized form), or perhaps Jacob or James or Jim or Jacques, etc. All those are translations of the Hebrew original – as opposed to picking a popular name that is merely similar to the Hebrew (e.g. all those Morrises, Seymours, Myrons, etc.).
Having only a romanized version of the real name is a clear statement of who you are. If the child should go off the derekh or get adopted/kidnapped, any time they research their birth name, they will realize they came from a traditional Jewish background.
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The law protects members of religious minorities, such as us. It requires businesse and government agencies to reasonably accomodate us. The people making a stink are closet (or perhaps not so closeted) anti-semities, who want to see the legal system used to crush the various religious minorities. Without these laws, which are in many if not most states, and also in anything governed by Federal law, people like us are protected. Without them, discrimination on the basis of religion is perfectly legal as long as expressed in terms of behavior (e.g. “no head coverings allowed” or ” must work Saturdays”) rather than based on a formal religious belief (e.g. the former “test” acts).
P.S. I have seem many hareidi stores, and don’t observe them kicking out customers with crosses, and have seen them hire employees with crosses. The issue is whether a store must hire someone with a cross, or a yarmulke, or whatever.
ubiquitin: Without a Beis ha-Mikdash, it’s just a red cow and is facing a relatively unpleasant life as a farm animal, before dying in a commercial slaughterhouse. With a Beis ha-Mikdash in existence, she will be pampered and treated kindly, and probably have a less unpleasant end (albeit with the same result).
You mean that Zionism is only an April’s fool joke, and tomorrow they’ll all be frum again?????
The American government, even the Democrats, are friendlier to yiddishkeit than the Israeli government. In fact, there are no ultra-secular parties – even the “secular” Democrats at least pretend to be pious believes who support accomodation of religious minorities. The entire culture of American since the latge 18th century has been exceptionally supportive of religious minorities – as opposed to the current regime in Israel which even has a national anthem on hwo they strive to build a land free from the yoke of Torah and Mitsvos.
And even with Obama stripping the Defense budget to fund his pet projects, America is a lot stronger than its enemies – and keeps its enemies far away. If The Arabs ever united, especially in including the other major Islamic powers (Turkey, Pakistan and Iran), Israel would not last long. As it is, they have survived largely through American protection (which is probably ending).
There is also no shailoh of leaving Eretz Yisrael in order to focus on Torah and Mitsvos. When Eretz Yisrael is run by evil people trying to destroy Torah, we should flee to the midbar, and Midbar America is a pretty nice place to flee to.
Without a Beis ha-Mikdash to be sold to, she’s just an unimportant cow who will have a not especially good life for a cow (forced breeding, milk production, slaughtered for lower grade meat at best). As a Beis ha-Mikdash cow she’ll live a pampered life (until slaughtered).
Also near Atlantic City.
Given there is currently no market for them, expect it will spend its life getting milk, and then turned into a less desirable piece of beef (what happens to dairy cows after a while).
A Parah Aduman without a Beis ha-Mikdash is just a red cow.
Halachically there isn’t a problem, but the ways in which astronauts and selected and trained make it unlikely (e.g. a high percentage are military test pilots).
If there is room on the shelves, maybe they need to buy more seforim? If there is extra room in the shul, maybe it means there aren’t enough people coming to shul. And why should anyone be standing in the aisles to begin with — aren’t there enough chairs? If the doors slam, they need oiling or perhaps door stopper. Why would you ever lock the door of a shul? Some people are early, some are late, some people need to go to the bathroom more frequently than others (males after a certain age, pregnant women, etc.) – and Jewish custom is to bring children to shul and then aren’t always the most orderly of critters. If you can find ten people who want to be so prompt, start a minyan. If the shliach tzibbur is rushing you, switch to another shul that davens more slowly (or as they would say, with more kavannah).
chulentmoma613:
Black hats are a fashion choice. The people who wear think they are fashionable. Since many people don’t wear them, it stands out. If formal hats (fedoras, homburg, derbys, etc.) returned to popularity among American men, no one would attempt to fathom great meaning in the fashion choice of Jewish men who prefer to wear formal black hats.
Wear pants is also a fashion choice (referring to long pants, which is what most American men have been wearing since they switched in the early 19 century). Since most people in America also wear pants, it doesn’t stand out. If the styles change, and American men switched to kilts or to knickerbockers or to wearing long gowns (styles that were popular in the past), and frum well continued to wear pants that go down to the ankle, people would notice and ask “do long pants make you closer to G-d” or “do long pants help you learn Torah.”
It depends what you wear instead of a “black hat”. If you wear nothing on your head, for a male, that suggests you are not part of the frum community or at least don’t want to be seen as being frum (of course some men have been known to wear wigs to pass as goyim).
However one’s hat sends messages to people about who you want to be seen as. If this subject interests you, and you have no interest in employability, study sociology in college.
OU is Modern Orthodox politically, but Chareidi in terms of kashrus (since good hecksherim put bad hecksherim out of business, so if OU had “low” standards, it would alienate a large part of the kosher market, whereas people who are “liberal” on kashrus will buy products with high level hecksherim as long as the price and quality are good).
cinderella: You will discover that almost all the millionaires and people with big houses and big cars are middle age or older. The job market for people starting out has in fact declined compared to what it was ten years ago. Being single, especially among frum Jews, is largely a function of youth. It always has. It always will be.Unless you have great inherited wealth (which is extremely rare in our community), young couples will always be struggling. That’s the way things are. That’s the way things will always be. It’s what you’ll be telling your great granschildren when they complain, as they inevitably will.
Why not boycott everything made by goyim?
1. The weddings halls are overbooked, the maternity wards are crowded and the pre-schools are packed – are you sure there is a crisis. I’ll believe there is a crisis when Maimonides Hospital announces it is closing its maternity ward due to lack of customers, when I read about wedding halls trying to find a new use for their facility, and hear about schools closing due to a shortage of students.
2. Even Adam ha-Rishon had a shidduch crisis, and his did in fact require divine intervention (not to mention some very unusual surgical procedures). Our kids have relatively minor problems. Every single person has a shidduch crisis until they get engaged.
3. The economy stinks for young people entering the job market, which scares off some people. We don’t control the economy.
Fur hats were very common in the “early modern” era. In fact, they almost led to the extinction of many animals whose fur was used. They starting falling out of fashion in the west in the 19th century (when a picture circulation of Benjamin Franklin with a “spodik” became popular in Paris during the revolution, Franklin who would never be caught dead in one when living in Philadelphia sent a rush order for some and used it as a trademark).
Most of “cool” stories about their origins are probably folk-myths (but they are “our” folk myths, and warrant respect).
If fur hats were still popular in America, the Modern Orthodox anti-hasidim wouldn’t be complaining about them and pretending its a religious-based objection, rather than complaining that Boro Park doesn’t follow the same fashion Gurus as Manhattan.
They are hats. They used to be popular among the goyim. We tend to be a century or two “late” is adopting men’s fashions. That’s why many frum Jews still wear frock coats of various types (knee length, which has been out of style for 90 years (according to Wikipedia King George V killed them), and wear hats as a dress item (according to “urban myth”, President John Kennedy killed them). Fur hats are attractive, but unless the goyim start wearing them again, I predict that in another century or two we’ll lose interest.
So you have an Italian wine, who do you name it after: How about call it the Titus to remind us what we have to think the Italians for. Perhaps we call it the Mussolini (well, he was a nice guy compated to the rest of his gang). No we pick a name associated with the place that has a positive association for Jews – and for many European country’s that means a rishon. It isn’t like those countries have done anything for us lately, but they do produce nice wines (maybe with global warming, we’ll get better wines in the New York, but until then…)
From what I can see, the YWN editors try to be friendly to all the frum parties including Shas, Yehadut ha-Torah (and its constituent parts), Bayit Yehudi, and the parties on the fringes (the Hardalnikim who are reluctant to support any party, the anti-zionist hareidim who boycott). Thus during the campaign they appear sympathetic to all of the above, which is confusing since sometimes an article on one frum party is about it trying to differentiate itself from the others (i.e. it criticizes them).
After the election, Yachad disappears so the articles are now form the point of others, since Yachad doesn’t really continue to exist.
We know that vaccines are highly effective in preventing diseases so much so that those that have been around a long time have been so effective that most people couldn’t imagine having someone in their community with polio or smallpox. The introduction of the vaccines has led to a major decline in the number of children dying before reaching adult, or of reaching adulthood in an impaired state – and the factgs suggest that the vaccines were a major cause.
Given the huge number of people throughout the world using vaccines, if there was a problem we would be seeing a hugh number of people with autism – and that simply isn’t the case. Many have noted that autism does correlate with some other things, such as lower infant mortality (sick kids survive but are impared), older parents, contraception, etc.
Some have suggested increase in diagnosis of “autism” is tied to government benefits given when such a benefit is made and that many kids who might otherwise be considered “normal” were reclassed as “special” to get the handouts. The increase in autism doesn’t appear to be a factor in underdeveloped countries where vaccines are used routinely.
Assuming Autism has increased recently (and the term is 20th century, and was not considered a problem until the late 20th century), many things correlate with the rise of autism:
Lower infant and maternal mortality
Increased age of parents
Antibiotics
Automobiles
Electrical appliances in the home
Radio, television and the internet
Professional sports
Israeli independence
A diet high in calories (previously calorie deprivation was crisis – people used to be starving much of the time
People often grasp at something seeking an answer. You see it in those trying to relate climate change to policies they disapprove of. Sometimes this gets controversial (as in the correlation between rising abortion rates and falling crime rates). Often it gets ridiculous (the anti-vaccine people verge on this).
That “correlation” is not “causation” is an important principle in looking at anything statistical, and is often abused by people trying to make a point For example, there is a correlation between sales of matza and wine, and the weather getting warmer – that doesn’t mean that the rising temperatures causes Jews to go out and buy large amounts of matza and wine (in this case, an independent factor, that Pesach is in the spring, explains the correlation).
There is a very high correlation. It seems almost every child that has developed autism has also worn shoes. Also, there appears to be evidence the cultures that don’t wear shoes tend not to have autistic children, at least as frequently.
Avi K: The strongest argument that the Rambam did not hold that way is his own actions, i.e. the proof he did believe there is a contemporary mitavah to war against the Muslims is that he willingly took a job helping the Muslims. Could you imagine a Gadol ha-Dor who took a parnassah working for the Third Reich. Remember he worked for Salahdin. Personally. Up close. Saw him regularly (he was the family doctor).
Remember, your position is to to enforcce your view, which is basically a 20th century hiddush (okay, Shabatei Zvi held the same way, but no one else), you are willing to sacrifise the community of Bnei Torah that now lives in Eretz Yisrael, since if the zionists declare open season on the hareidim then the Bnei Torah will be forced to bring medinah in order to survive. Fortunately, most of the leaders of the zionist parties (except perhaps for Yair Lapid) are so fanatic.
Obama is too young to retire. His career options are teaching, politics or being bored to death. IHis former Senate seat is held by a Republican, and is one of the key ones for a pickup by the Democrats. While only two presidents had real careers after leaving office (John Quincy Adams was an distinguished member of Congress, Taft was Chief Justice).
However there are press reports he’s shopping for an estate in Hawaii, though I expect his wife and kids see Hawaii as a nice place to visit but no more.
UTJ and Shas will only join the government if the government agrees to cancel the plan to conscript the yeshiva students, forcing them to either go the prison for at least several years or to the army for several years. They won’t have the ability to get high levels of funding restored. Remember there are plenty of anti-religious parties ready to take the place of the hareidi parties, so they really don’t have much bargaining power. The attraction of the hareidi parties to Netanyahu is that they are concerned with what to him is a tangental issue (conscription), and will leave the important stuff (economics and national security) to others.
While the yeshiovos allied with the Eidis Hareidis never relied on government funding, the other non-zionist yeshivos have seen why relying on secular Jews for money is a bad thing.
1. Look at the average February temperature and the average August temperature. An increase of about 50 degrees in six months. After several years, we’ll be boiling with temperatures in the 100s of degrees (this isn’t a silly methodology, established scientists took the average temperatures from the coldest time in a millenia and extrapolated, proclaimed a crisis, and asked for more funding).
2. Sometimes its hot, sometimes its cold. For the most part, most people (and farmers) prefer “hot” to “cold”. Only hard core liberals are horrified at the thought that New Yorkers will no longer have to go Florida to warm up during the winter.
The proposed law is to throw them in jail for refusing to serve in the army. That is why Likud and Bayit Yehudi enacted (BTW, the numbers are almost the same in the new Kenesset as in the old one, Nationalists and Hareidim are a majority – Yesh Atid could have been dumped at anytime).
And when you no government benefits, do you realize that in many areas (including housing and health care) Israel is still very socialists – the benefits include whether you can get health care and live in a house. And unless you agree it is motivated by bigotry, why do the zionists want to give all sorts of benefits to Palestinians who actively oppose the state, rather than to Jews who simply want to live in Eretz Yisrael in peace.
To understand Israeli hareidim, the compatible groups in American history would be African Americans during the Jim Crow era.
zahavasdad:
1. Lapid’s proposal is that all Chareidim (except those exempted for having too much protectsia) would locked up in prison.
2. Under Israeli law, if someone spends three years in a musical group or doing meaningless “make work” as an IDF jobnik, they can get a job, so why say doing something that benefits society requires six years.
3. Muslins and Christians don’t have to serve in the IDF to get jobs.
He can run for Senate. His former seat is up in 2016, and its currently held by a Republican, in what has become a solid blue state (albeit one that recently elected a Republican governor).
Avi K. If one holds, following the views expressed in the ???? ???, which is how many if not most hareidim hold, the zionists are ?????? for having initiated a war contrary to halacha for the purpose of driving the Palestinians out of Eretz Yisrael, and by halacha a ???? is required to withdraw and can not kill the ???? who is merely defening himself. Heretofore the hareidim have not had to present this argument, which undermines the legitimacy of zionism in the eyes not only of many Jews but also among the goyim (who are increasingly impatient with Israel’s hostility towards the Arabs, with even the US considering cutting off all assistance and supporting international sanctions against zionists). This is because the Israelis have wisely not tried to force hareidim to join their army.
If a German sought an excuse to avoid joining the Wehrmacht (which for the most part stuck to defending the country rather than focusing on killing Jews), would you consider him a slacker.
P.S. The highly secular culture of Israel is probably a bigger factor in closing doors to hareidim. The truth is that most American goyim (I’m specifically excluding secular Jews) are friendlier to hareidim than are Israeli zionists, with the result that if a hareidim is primarily interested in maximizing parnassah, he will immigrate to the United States.
1. In a proportional parliamentary system, most parties become highly focused. The good side is you have parties focuses on your agenda. The bad side is no focuses on the country as a whole. In a single member system (American style) many minorities are cut off from the political system. Netanyahu and Herzog aim their focus a bit higher, but so no interest in serving those who are unlikely to support them (note Bibi’s anti-Arab comments, and Arabs are the same percentage of Israelis as hareidim, and are much more likely to serve in the IDF). In the US, with only two possible choices, candidates focus on the whole electorate.
2. Under the current economic arrangements in Israel, most hareidi would face a very low glass ceiling. Why prepare for a career in an economy that considers religious accomodations to be something undesirable, especially if you a part of a minority that most Israelis would gladly be rid of. In the United States, law and custom are much more supportive of people like us working outside of the frum ghetto (but America has always been proud of its religious diversity). Remember the goal of zionism is a Torah-free society, and when they see a frummie it reminds them that they have failed to achieve that goal. Under these conditions, its rationale for the hareidi parties to focus on protecting communal autonomy. Why prepare for a job that discrimination won’t let you take?
3. In all fairness, hareidim who want a good parnassah tend to either go off the derekh and become religious zionists, or move to a country that believes in religious freedom. The fact that they choose to live in Eretz Yisrael, under a hostile regime, is indicative that they are primarily concerned with something other than making money (unlike their Brooklyn cousins).
No, but if you are frum and are interested in public affairs, then you will be interested in Israeli politics. Even if you hold that there is no halachic basis for zionism (as most hareidim do), Eretz Yisrael is now the largest concentration of Jews in the world.
to: yayin yashan bkli chadash
Herzog would need Lapid and Kahlon, not to mention the hareidim and the Arabs. It would be a lot trickier. All Netanyahu has to do inconvince the “right” to stop trying to draft the hareidm.
1. Lieberman may back down, perhaps for freedom to vote against repealing the conscription law and of course, patronage. Lapid might also back down, but that’s less likely. Likud might prefer to have Labor as a partner rather than Lieberman or Lapid – in part since Labor’s patronage demands are about the same as Lieberman and Lapid.
2. It might depend on the form that exempting hareidim takes. If, for example, Israel moves towards a volunteer/professional army, with liberal veterans benefits (which are cuurently considered to be unconstitutional discrimination against not veterans), there will be less opposition than to specifically exempting yeshiva students.
We eat chickens and turkeys all the time, and they only use fowl language.
yytz: No hareidi party can join a government that remains committed to arresting tens of thousands of hareidim for refusing to serve in the army. It doesn’t how much money is offered for hareidi institutions. Once mass arrests, not to mention seizing funds from and closing yeshivos that support draft resistance, the hareidi community will move from the pro-medinah policies of UTJ and Shas to the anti-zionist policies of Eidis hareidis and Neturei Karta. Those who have supported to medinah will be soon as fools (at best) and collaborators with the enemies at worst. It is not about money or parnassah.
It’s not a virus. Its an infection. It is treated with antibiotics. Epidemics were still common in some countries until the invention of antibiotics during the middle of the 20th cenutry. A lot of conditions that could be fatal ceased to be problems when antibiotics came along (e.g. “strep” and tuberculosis).
Whenever anyone talks about the good old days, remind them they probably would have died before reaching adulthood of something that not not result in you missing much school or work today.
yytz: If Labor has more votes, it would be mean a Labor-Likud coalition would be led by Labor. In that situation, Netanyahu would probably retire (as he did the last time the electorate “dissed” him).
Unless Netanyahu is willing to change conscription of hareidim (supported in the past by Likud, Bayit Yehudi and Yisrael Beiteinu) he losed Hareidi support. So if the anti-hareidi “Right” decides that drafting hareidim and closing yeshivos is more important than keeping Netanyahu as Prime Minister, Herzog has an opening (which will probably involve ending conscription rather than exempting hareidim, which please the Arabs and post-zionists as well).
zahavasdad: Saying you won’t be in a coalition with someone means you won’t join the coalition unless your conditions are met. That’s how it works in a parliamentary system, in Israel and everywhere else. The problem for Herzog is that Lapid refuses to sit with the hareidim, or more specifically (since money isn’t the issue this year), Lapid insists on conscripting hareidim (“share the burden”) and the hareidim refuse to be conscripting (alledgedly about learning Torah, but many hareidim are anti-zionist holding that Medinat Yisrael is guilty of waging an illegal war to evict the goyim for Eretz Yisrael). Netanyahu has a similar problem with most of his probably coalition partners.
The solution probably would involve ending conscription, which would be revolutionary in the State of Israel.
DaasYochid: If you need a reason, other than that Ha-Shem told us to, you have a problem. “Finding time” as an issue has to do with changes in technology and lifestyle, so if you believe a halacha is based on technology and lifestyle, then Ha-Shem has little to do with it.