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1. Self-employment means running your own business. The alternative is to be an employee. Virtually all career offer the choice between “being your own boss” and being an employee.
2. Career refers to the substance of one’s work, not whether one is an employee or not. Running a business is a career, whether you are the owner or an employee.
3. Unless its a hobby, no business is permanently small by design. As a business grows, it ceases to be small. THat is the goal.
If a non-Jewish newssource says something outrageous about us, be skeptical. It could be they are genuinely evil (quite likely if run by non-Orthodox Jews), or could be they are dumb.
Are they talking about prescription glasses? That would banning kids based on a physical handicap which will get the school in very big trouble with just about everyone.
Are they objecting to a type of frame (black frames are quite uncontroversial)?
Are they objecting to some style involving outrageous frames and non-prescription (i.e. clear) lens worn as a fashion statement – which would sound like something that might get banned.
to those who asked” Akuperma: “confiscating the money they raise abroad, as well as throwing the talmidim in prison.”
What are you talking about? Where did you hear this?
YNET and Israel Times sites.
They have decided that cutting off funding for yeshivos won’t work, since many yeshivos (the noisiest one in protest the government) never accepted government money, and that many yeshivos rely on foreign fundraising. Therefore the idea of merely cutting off government money won’t be effective in punishing yeshivos that oppose conscription. That requires fines that have to be paid from money raised from private donors, which means from America.
They also realized that fines against penniless yeshiva students (and face, even the most middle class 18 year is penniless unless he inherited a trust fund, which is very rare even in America and unheard of in Israel) are uncollectible, and therefore they will need to throw them in prison for refusing to serve in the army.
Look it, I know you guys really believe that the medinah was the beginning of the geula. But it times to admit that the zionists are the ones we daven for in Shmonei Esray every weekday with the bracha that includes “v’kal oyvei amecha meharah yekarasu”. Ha-Shem will protect the Am ha-Torah. It might still be, just not in the way you think.
Has anyone produced any frum Fan Fict for DS9 (or Star Trek)?
1. So why did he propose closing down the non-zionist yeshivos (that is the effect of confiscating the money they raise abroad, as well as throwing the talmidim in prison) – and its pretty clear that is what is being planned (according to the secular press).
2. If he’s concerned about frum parnassah, why not propose making it legal for people to get jobs outside the hareidi community without serving in the army – at present they will be arrested if they do so.
3. If he’s so concerned, why not propose an American style anti-discrimination law requiring what in the USA is “reasonable accomodation” of religious minorities (and is Israel is considered “religious coercion”).
There is no hazakah that he is a evil person (yet), so we need to be Dan le-Kay Zechus. He may have been misled. Some people joined the Nazi Party in 1933 not realizing it would engage in genocide. He can now resign, or better, join the opposition, and come home to Torah world he only recently left.
You are allowed to spend extra to benefit your friends, and it is a common form of charity to deliberately overpay, and if “fair trade” means knowingly paying more than the free market rate for goods and service, that is charity. However it is somewhat less than honest for a retailer to say “fair trade” because he negotiated a bad deal, and are stiffing the consumers with higher prices in the hope they won’t switch to a more efficient, and therefore less expensive, competitor. Often the extra money coming out of consumers’ pockets under the guise of fair trade is going to someone other than the “poor” farmers (such as to rich landlords, corporate executives, government officials, etc.).
1. The Germans maintained they were acting in self-defense (which had the won the war, history would duly record — though the surviving Jews would have an oral tradition to the contrary). I believe they also renounced the Kellogg-Brian Pact.
2. The Germans passed a law authorizing the government to take all necessary measures (the “Night and fog” law) and if this was legal, it would be a defense under German law. The Allies disagreed. There’s a good chance than had Rommel become the new leader (in the unlikely event the July 1944 putsch won), he probably would have found many Germans were acting illegally (and one can argue that the Nazis were more afraid of a future German government blaming them for the holocaust than they were afraid of the Allies or the Jews, since they assumed they would be summarily shot if they lost the war – something the US wouldn’t allow). Needless to say, any Germans with “fear of G-d” probably fled the country or ended up being executed (though some survived).
3. From a Jewish perspective, everyone involved in the holocaust was guilty regardless of who gave them orders, though that position is not universally shared by the rest of the world (whose legal traditions allow for a criminal defense based on following orders).
WIY: Under German law, the only thing the Nazis had to worry about was if an eventual court found they hadn’t received valid orders. Some were a bit nervous about it. While the Brits and Soviets just wanted to execute war criminals with minimal trials, the Americans insisted on “due process of law” and ended up largely inventing modern international criminal law. It was quite radical since most western countries had always held that a soldier following valid orders was not subject to punishment.
Halacha is totally different than the goyim’s law. This has been an issue for the Israelis. It may become a very big issue when they start conscripting the Benei Yeshiva in a few months (assuming anyone shows up) – since if halacha as determined by the Bnei Yeshiva differs from what the army says, they will refuse to follow the orders. And if most hareidim regard the situation as “Shaas ha-Shmad”, they will be strict on everything
To “Charles Snort” — translations
???? ??? ????? ?????? ???? ?? ?????? = The words of the teacher, or the words of the student, to whom do you pay attention (as in: what Ha-Shem tells you to do, or what anyone else tells you to do, which do you pay attention to).
???? ??? ????? = [you are required] to allow yourself to be killed rather than violate the law – this applies to unlawful spilling of blood, idolatry in all forms, or engaging in a sex crime — whomever is trying to coerce you to violate these laws is considered a pursuer trying to kill you and you may kill him in self-defense
??? ??? = period of persecution – such as when the powers that be are demanding non-observance of mitsvos as part of a program to undermine Torah and mitsvos — in this situation, even the most trivial minhag (e.g. tying shoes one way, if the non-Jews tie it a different way) is mandatory even if it will result in death
This is a big issue for goyim, since most western legal systems considering it a valid defense that someone is following orders with a possible exception only of one knows that the orders one is following were also illegal.
For Jews this isn’t an issue since halacha is very clear due to the doctrine of “???? ??? ????? ?????? ???? ?? ?????? “. The only possible defense to following an order contrary to halacha is that it didn’t violate something that is covered by “???? ??? ?????” – and that doesn’t always apply (e.g. ??? ???). That means in a military such as that of the United States or Israel, where they don’t kill soldiers for refusing orders, it is never permitted to violate halacha due to superior orders (noting that doing something otherwise forbidden may be permitted for other reasons, such as preservation of your own life – but halacha allows that).
1. We still do. Men wear a robe (actually a cloak, such as a tallis). To make it more convenient, it now has sleeves. During the 20th century, the style for men moved towards shorter jackets, with longer jackets (frocks, kapote, etc.) only for more formal usage (among goyim, note that the Netherlands king wore a kapote when he took his oath, and most men work similar jackets for the wedding of the Prince of Wales). Long jackets lost popularity when King George V stopped wearing them in the 1920s (Jews couldn’t care less about him, so we didn’t get the message).
2. It appears that jackets, and pants, became a lot more popular in western Europe at the end of the middle ages (perhaps due to the climate suddenly got colder). Robes, without pants, are popular in many countries. Since the Americans and Western European conquered the world, their fashions become more prestigious.
They are still being invented, however they raise all sorts of questions, both in terms of halacha and the “real world”. The prototypes are obvious, but they could be designed so it wouldn’t be obvious who has one one.
Could they be used for “candid” photography, which raises all sorts of privacy issues? Could they be used to view something inappropriate without anyone know what you are looking at?
It is always to be a centrist. The problem is that there is some moral dubiousness between being a centrist between good and evil, or right and wrong. Germans who avoided killing Jews, but made a point not to get involved with the extremists who tried to overthrow Hitler, were centrists – and are still apologizing for it.
Would you want a doctor who considered an effective treatment and doing nothing, and being a centrist decided on a somewhat effective treatment? Doing a little bit of the right thing is very centrist, and very hypocritical.
Living languages are dynamic. New words get invented all the time. Languages are in a constant state of evolution. All lexographers and gramarians can do is record the changes.
Whether (or “how many”) Hareidim serve/served in the IDF depends on definitions.
Many people define Hareidim in part as “not serving in the army.” By this definition, any Hareidi who serves in the army ceases to be hareidim (what the secular fanatics are hoping for). By this definition no hareidi has, is, or ever will serve in the army.
Once you broaden the definition to include such aspects as strict in kashrus and mitsvos (but that applies to all orthodox Jews), dressing “funny” (but that leaves out many such as the Frankfort au Main community), or holding that the Israeli state as now constituted does not have the power to pass laws that contradict halacha (but many Religious Zionists held the evacuation of settlments was against halacha, and considered armed resistance – does that make them Hareidi?) — you get a much larger hareidi community, many of who have always served in the army.
You should study history, both our’s and the goyim’s. Then you’ll stop freaking out about conditions today.
Do you mean as formal dress for shul, a wedding, etc. Very few people consider a straw hat to be anything other than informal wear. In all contexts, wearing a straw hat suggests you consider the activity you are engaging in is not something very important. Straw is a very inexpensive fabric.
Do you mean informal usage? Such as wearing while on a picnic in the mountains?
And how do you define hareidi? If you define hareidi as wearing a black felt hat, then by definition no hareidi wears a straw hat.
If you define hareidi based on hashkafa (being mehudar in mitsvos, and perhaps most importantly, not accept the legitimacy of the Israeli government and holding that in a clash between Israeli law and halacha, we hold by halacha), then many hareidim wear 21st century western style clothes (but they still would not wear a straw hat in a “dress” situation).
Avi K:
Can you site to anything where either rav held that “Dina malchusa dina” would require obeying a conscription law aimed at getting yeshiva boys out of the Beis Medrash and into the barrack? The public statements from them and their talmidim suggest it doesn’t.
In any event, Dina Malchusa Dina would usually apply only to laws affecting welfare or safety, but not to laws that are clearly aimed at undermining the learning of Torah. Anti-Jewish laws were never held to be protected by that doctrine.
If you like being bored, ignore this website. Ignore the news. Ignore the internet. Probably skip learning Torah (especially if you are a Ben Torah).
Remember that it is a curse to wish someone to “live in interesting times”
Unless you are a math teacher, who cares as long as you can do the math.
1. The government of Israel gives money to yeshivos if it is popular enough to attract votes. If they don’t give the yeshiovos money, the parties who want yeshivos won’t support them. As a result of the last election, the parties favoring support of the hareidi yeshiovos did poorly relative to the anti-hareidim, so the government will cut funding.
2. This is how a parliamentary system works. Each faction joins the government, and gets patronage and money for their favorite projects. It is very democratic and good politics, though from an economic efficiency perspective it stinks (in part because it guarantees high taxes).
3. Conscription is a separate issue. The government might end up saying that they will only fund veterans in yeshivos, but not non-veterans, which is their right. However passing a law that makes it illegal for at least some 18 year olds to learn Torah (requiring them to stop learning and join the army) is unacceptable to much of the frum community.
If a rodef is a “Tinuk Shneshba” – he is still a rodef. It is sad. But if he is trying to kill you, you need to kill him first. You have no obligation to let him kill you.
Undermining the frum economy is a nuisance. We’ve lived with worse. Forceably taking students out of yeshiva, seizing their gemaras, and making them learn soldiering instead IS LIFE THREATENING. Torah is to us, what food and water and videogames are to the frei Jews.
I’m not advocating shooting the hilonim, but if they persist in trying to destroy the Torah community, they will find themselves destroyed (and hopefully, we won’t have to firing the shots — not our department, we usually outsource this to Ha-Shem).
Whether any Rav supported the medinah between 1948 and 2013 is irrelevant now, since an agreement to exempt yeshiva students from the military was in effect then, and it no longer is. An analogy would be to quote someone discussing how we view Germans from the second reich (1870-1918) and saying that was how the person felt during the third reich (1933-1945) when the policies changed.
Conscripting yeshiva students is a “game changer.” Not funding yeshivos, or structuring welfare benefits so as to injure the hareidi community is mere politics since no one argues that a non-Jewish government has any obligation to give moeny to yeshivos or to give money to frum people and causes. Drafting yeshiva students and ordering them to stop learning Torah is very serious. Even if Dina Malchus Dina applied to the government of Eretz Yisrael, it would apply to such a decree.
There’s even a gemara in Sanhedrin suggesting that if the military police come to arrest yeshiva students, they are allowed to to kill the police (i.e. that the Lapid-Bennett program means the zionists have a din of a rodef – and everything they’ve been arguing to support schechting Arabs as pikuach nefesh, now applies to the zionists — which, BTW, is a more radical position than even Neturei Karta has advocated).
No one is objecting to those Jews who believe the future of the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael is a function of military and economic might, and who prefer to trust their family’s and our people’s future to their own ability. The issue is that those who believe the future of the yishuv is a function of Shemiras mitsvos and Limud Torah, and who want to trust their family’s and our people’s future to mitsvos and learning and trust in Ha-Shem, are being forced to give up learning to be soldiers. Note that no one is demanding that the hilonim give up their lifestyle and their culture and be required to spend several years learning Torah and concentrating on the correct doing of the mitsvos. The issue is the bigotry and intolerance of people such as Bennett and Lapid who are demanding that everyone adopt their life style, and are ready to use the coercive power of the state to get their way.
rabbiofberlin:
1. “Rock of Israel” was a compromise. Ben Gurion et al rejected the idea that the zionist claim was based on Torah (remember they were planning a very secular, socialist state – and a large faction wanted to ally with the Soviet Union), and this was the closest to referring to Torah they would allow.
2. During the 1948 (post agreement on yeshiva exemptions) to 2013 (yeshiva conscription) many rabbanim were quite willing to work with the state. They accepted the money and were content with the yeshiva exemptions (even if it came with a big price – most hareidim were legally banned from accepting jobs outside the hareidi community). That period is over, and it is clear that if conscription of yeshiva students is introduced, many rabbanim who were happy to “collaborate” with the zionists, will reconsider the 1948 to support the medinah (an alternative at the time was to have Palestine become an American colony) and perhaps go back to the positions that led to Dr. De Haan being murdered (and the groups that are now the Edis Hareidis being intimidatged into staying out of politics), names support for a single-state solution including both banks of the Jordan with an autonomous hareidi community under a majority-Islamic government (note that even the worst of the terrorists have rarely targeted hareidim and have never attacked an anti-zionist yeshiva – since 1929 which is well before the medinah and involved some dubious behavior by the British and perhaps the zionists both of whom clearly knew about the attack before hand).
Note that in our legal tradition, not only is it acceptable to break the nation’s laws when they conflict with halachah (“dina malachus dina” has only limited applicability in Eretz Yisrael, probably no applicability if you hold Israel is a Jewish state, and would never apply to laws designed to hurt or prevent doing mitsvos or learning Torah) — but wo reject the doctine of “superior orders” meaning that if you violate halacha because you were ordered to, it is no defense thaqt you were following lawful orders. From a Torah perspective, the Israeli soldiers and police who will enforce conscription would be as fully and criminally liable as the kenesset members and generals (the only “defense” would be that they were threatened with death, and that’s not even a full defense in all situations).
zahavasdad: “You live in a country you have to obey the laws of that country. “
So you feel Israel should apologize to the Eichmann family?? He was following the laws of the country he lived in. There is a theory that “Dina Malchusa Dina” applies in Eretz Yisrael, but even if it does, its rather clear that the gezerah on conscription is motivated by a desire to uproot the Torah world which means that it is a law we can ignore , as any other of the zionist laws that are aimed to undermine the Am ha-Shem and their dedication to Torah and Mitsvos.
We live in Ha-Shem’s world, and follow his laws. Ha-Shem hoo Malkainu (or if you want to be more modern, our President, our Prime Minister, our CEO, etc.). This is especially true in Eretz Yisrael in which the Jews only claim to the land is that Ha-Shem gave us permission to live there on condition we used this extraordinary grant (no other people were given their country by Ha-Shem) to we follow his laws. Perhaps those persons in Eretz Yisrael who are of Jewish descent who don’t want to follow the laws of the country they live in should move.
zahavasdad: Your question isn’t theoretical. If a significant number of rabbanim decide on civil disobedience (i.e. peaceful refusal to obey Israel laws), you have a very serious crisis. Mass civil disobedience is serious business (consider the role it played in collapsing the British Empire in India, and in ending “Jim Crow” in the United States). One possibility is that the Israeli government will back down and simply say “okay, you can fully autonomous – no conscription – no welfare or subsidies or access to government benefits”. However one has to remember that any policy would end up applying to Arabs as well, could raise serious legal questions under Israeli law, and raise serious issues of discrimination under international human rights standards. The stakes are really quite high, and most of the rabbanim are trying to as unconfrontational as possible in order to leave open a door for working out a solution.
However mass refusal to obey Israeli law would be even more devasting than any intifada since it involves Jews (who want to be left alone in peace, rather than Arabs who want to run the country) and doesn’t involve violence. And in the internet era, “the whole world will be watching.”
RE: “Apparently, the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah rule that Benei Torah should go to the induction center but not to sign up for the army.” It refers to orders to come down and do pre-induction paperwork.
In the United States, this might be called “punting” (an American football term). It puts off the problem, and (excuse the mixed metaphor), put the ball in the other’s guy court.
The rabbanim referred to in the original posting are telling their talmidim to politely go to the army, tell them who you are, and politely refuse to do anything else. This for the time being is non-confrontational. It doesn’t settle anything, but postpones the confrontation. The big issue will be this summer when the army will be sending them orders to report for military service. At that point, refusal to comply will be considered criminal and they will be subject to arrest and imprisonment. However some arrangement might be worked out before hand (e.g the zionists will settle for cutting off funding for hareidim, but will respect their autonomy and exempt them from conscription).
Other, less moderate rabbanim, are urging total resistance. Of course the zionist rabbanim (who regard service in the army as a mitzva rather than bitual Torah, that is to say those who see the army as defending the Jews of Eretz Yisrael as opposed to those who see Limud ha-Torah as the key to Jewish survival) have been urging their talmidim to join the army for some time.
become a Hasid – they aren’t so fanatic about having to daven on an empty stomach
In virtually all cultures, girls are ready to marry (i.e. to start producing children) at a much earlier age than the boys are ready to support the family. It’s a function of biology as much as anything else, and since we can’t criticize the one who did the design, this isn’t an issue to debate (as we could propose causing female not to reach puberty until their mid-20s).
The norm is virtually all human cultures is that brides are younger than their husbands, often by many years. That some people have trouble with this idea is the problem.
Unless the police in your area are really underworked, they might not be thrilled at being called out to pursue a sixth grade girl (most crimes are committed by boys, not girls) who is taking a short cut to school. Police tend to think they should be out chasing murderers and muggers and rapists and terrorists – not pre-teens on their way to and from school. Absent some indications of damage being done or more serious crimes being committee, you might reconsider calling out thousands of dollars in police assets. If it was your daughter who was taking a short cut to her Beis Yaakov, would you get annoyed if someone called for a SWAT team to stop her?
What damages were done? Are you accusing her of theft? Is their a dangerous condition that might injure her? The minhag of children is to take short cuts.
To put “tresspass” into context, until about 250 years ago, you had alledge (even if they ignored it most of the time) that the tresspasser had come into your property with force and arms and against the king’s peace – schoolgirls taking shortcuts didn’t count.
To those who argued: “swiet –
For the marriage to be valid, you need *only one* of three things: kesef (ring), shtar (kesuba) or biah (yichud). Any one of those being valid and the marriage is valid. So you would need to invalidate all three before even questioning whether the marriage is valid.
Not true. Eidim are neccessary. Stop spouting ameratzus in the name of halacha. “
You only need witnesses to one of them, so if your goal is to uphold the marriage,living together as “man and wife” works. And even if not, she’s a pilegesh (concubine) which isn’t such a bad deal (compared to traditional English law where many bad things happened if you were “living in sin” – including the children couldn’t inherit from either parent).
However if you need to find an excuse to pasul the wedding, one can argue that marriage also needs kavanah (intent) to be married.
R.T.: But if the witnesses are treff, what else was treff. Would someone desiring to be married “K-das Moshe ve’Yisrael” choose treff witnesses? If you can argue that the parties never intended to be married according to halacha, and that the “mumbo jumbo” they said was intended as a sham, one can make a good argument the wedding wasn’t valid, and she doesn’t need a “get”, and her children from her next marriage are koshrt.
1. Note that we do the marriage ceremony at least three ways, any of which in theory would be enough. It would help if there wasn’t any hupah, kedushin, or biah as well, and no one knew they were living together as man and wife.
2. Arguing that the eidim are treff is an idea, depending on how desperate you are? It would certainly help if the married couple were clearly not frum (never went to mikvah, never kept kosher, never were Shomer Shabbos – thought the ceremony was something to amuse the grandparents and all that mattered was a civil ceremony).
3. Remember the only big change of a marriage being annuled under halacha is that the woman doesn’t need a “get”. Unlike the traditional goyish law in western countries, children of an unmarried Jewish couple are kosher (not “bastards”) and inherit from the father.
4. How desperate is it to treff up the marriage? Presumably the likely problem is that the woman ended up having children by a different man, and we don’t want those children to be mamzerim. In these situation, our rabbanim are quite creative in finding a basis to decide the marriage was treff. On the other hand, if the dispute is whether the woman gets a kesubah when the husband runs off with a trophy wife (after her being a good housewife for 20 years), the husband’s arugment that the witnesses were treff (and he doesn’t owe his long suffering virtuous wife any money) might not be as well received. If you look at actual cases (tseuvahs) rabbanim are really good lawyers and always have been (even if they will insist they are nothing like lawyers, which is really false modesty).
EXPLANATION OF THIS DISCUSSION:
Obama, being in what is probably his final term of the last elected office he will every hold (only John Quincy Adams went back into politics after being president – Obama will probably end up as a professor) – he has finally learned to think before speaking. This is an improvement. It is very bizarre for “inside the beltway” (but then again, he’s a lame duck). He wisely kept his mouth shut until he had some facts rather than making a quick foolish statement that would be disproven by soon to be discovered facts. If he now can learn something about economics, the country might be in good shape.
Nu? Did anybody check to see if they flew the Israeli/Zionist flag this year (2013)???????
If the concern was avoiding pictures, we could use PINE mail. It’s all text. Indeed, a frum company could set up a server using PINE (its a UNIX program). It runs very fast, and runs even on the weakest machines. It even runs well on a dial-up connection using DOS.
The poster is complaining about pronounciation, nor grammar. As written, there is no issue.
Living langauges continuously evolve. It is the nature of humans. It’s how Ha-Shem made us.
What would happen if you tried to speak correct English similar to Shakespeare, Chaucer or the author of Beowulf?
If you want a language with a standard pronounciation, stick to languages such as Latin, Sumerian or Ancient Egyptian. Dead cultures pose no such problems.
Manhattan is more likely be covered by the non-Jewish media.
They should have planned something for Israeli Independence Day.
This is turning into a decisive issue that will permanently split the Jewish community, with the Bnei Torah being pitted against the Am ha-Artsim.
If there were, then the publishers that publish them, the bookstores that sell them, and the author that write them WOULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS. This isn’t happening, and in fact the relatively high prices suggest that demand is quite great since an oversupply, relative to demand, results in falling prices. The fact that few few publishers have switched to giving away stuff electronically suggests demand is still quite strong for sefarim, and the supply does not meet the demand.
It is probably a problem. Physical fitness classes often involve contact, and usually involve immodest clothes. It would probably be best to find a single-gender class (which is typically easier for women then men, since more non-Jewish women are also concerned with modesty than, relatively, non-Jewish men).
Perhaps there should be more of an effort for frum-sponsored single-gender health clubs.
So will they be flying the Israeli flag in 2013? A lot has happened. Based on the Rosh Yeshiva’s public comments, it seems they moved from being zionist “fellow travellers” to becoming “mamash” hareidim.
Given the changes in policy towards yeshiva students, I suspect many people who were happy to say Hallel in the past will be more inclined towards slichos (since it happens next Monday is a fast day).
Baruch ha-Shem when we live at a time when people have too many children and not enough distinctive names, and have run out of deceased relatives to name people after. I bet that 65 years ago it was easy to come up with distinctive names.
Did he acknowledge the counter argument, which is that the surgical methods used to clean the wound are also dangerous, and that unless the mollel is ill, the “folk remedy” may be equally good or superior to what is done in the hospitals. While much traditional medicine is “bunk”, cleaning a would by licking it is actually rational in many cases, no matter how unhygenic it sounds. I seriously doubt anyone has done a scientific study comparing techniques.
From the tone in the media, I suspect he’s more of a bigot than anything else. Indeed, being bigotted, in general, is the “stock in trade” on talk radio. That is why intelligent people tend to avoid it.
You don’t need a “novel” or “kulah” -if something is mutar, it is mutar even if you have a beard and pe’os, and if it is asur, it is asur even if you keep your kippah srugah in your pocket. About the only haskafa differences are that some Dati Leumi who hold that anything that helps the Israeli army (e.g. driving an officer to the beach so he can relax with his family and Shabbos, and thereby be more rested on Sunday) is mutar, but that’s a minority. Anything life threatening takes priority over Shabbos, and always has. No hiddushim involved.
Whether someone wants a job that forces them to work on Shabbos, is a different matter. The frummer you are, the more likely you’ll skip the higher parnassah that a job that requires working on Shabbos commands (e.g. be a math teacher rather than a cryptographer for the NSA).
National security work can easily lead to situation where it becomes necessary to work on Shabbos since it becomes life saving (consider the lessons learned from the cryptographers who were piously waiting until Monday to decode the messages indicating that the Japanese Navy was bombing Pearl Harbor on Sunday morning).
Federal employment is ideal for frum Jews. Very few jobs have issues with Shabbos. If travelling, you might have to arrive early or stay late in a city (for example a Friday meeting will require spending Shabbos in that city), but you can usually find frum Yidden to stay with. You can even impress your boss by being super-frugal by preparing food in your hotel room instead of running up restaurant tabs. Since most government, for the last 80 years or so, has been on a strict five day week, Shabbos issues aren’t too common. Unlike the private sector, Federal always makes a good faith effort at religious accomodation.
Some areas are problematic. The law enforcement and the uniform services expect you to be on call 24/7, so non-medical positions in the armed forces are probably out (though civilian work is not a problem for these agencies, even in the defense department). In jobs dealing with Israel, they (probably rightly) are suspicious that anyone may be more inclined to be pro-Israel even if this conflicts with American policy (which isnt’ to say that there aren’t frum Jews working in serious positions for the NSA and the FBI).
Of course most of the good Federal jobs require living in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitcan area (which is good for yiddishkeit, and cheaper than New York), and Federal health and retirement benefits are excellent.
I believe frum people tend to favor minvans, full vans and station wagons. It’s very hard to fit a spouse, eight kids and the carpool into a fancy car.