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Can You Pass The Israel Ultra-Orthodox Quiz? By Jeffrey Rudolph
6. Why is English not taught at ultra-Orthodox schools?
Israel invests significant amounts of money in the independent educational systems run by ultra-Orthodox political parties, however, “the boys who study there will never learn math, English, geography or civics. This is so they will never be able to earn a decent living and emerge from under the rabbis' thumbs. Only a suicidal state would agree to have a large and growing sector live off allowances and grants, without learning core subjects, serving in the military or making a living.”
Haaretz.Com
According to an ultra-Orthodox principal, “The moment a boy studies English, he's more exposed to the wider world, and he naturally leaves religion, and he can even engage in intermarriage, like in America.” (Gorenberg 2011, 187.)
7. What percentage of ultra-Orthodox Israeli men aged thirty-five to fifty-four (prime working years) were not employed in 1979? 2008?
1979: 20 percent; 2008: 65 percent. (Gorenberg 2011, 177, 178.)
Young ultra-Orthodox Israelis are becoming the world's poorest Jewish population due to their employment prospects, declining financial support from parents, declining welfare allowances from the state, and their high number of children. http://jppi.org.il/news/127/58/The-Haredi-Challenge/
Young ultra-Orthodox couples, normally poor with plans for large families, “are desperate for inexpensive apartments….At the end of the 1980s, the government began using that [desperation to draw them] into the settlement enterprise.” In 1990, 350 ultra-Orthodox settlers moved into Beitar Illit and for apartments paid “$60,000, with the government providing a $50,000 interest-free mortgage. Four years later, the first residents arrived in what would become the town of Modi'in Illit, east of Tel Aviv. The two communities grew faster than any other settlements in the West Bank. By the end of 2009, they were also the two largest settlements, with a total of 81,000 residents…Virtually every extended [ultra-Orthodox] family in Israel now has members living” in occupied Palestinian territory. Therefore, they have “a vested interest in the territories” and have been converted to the extreme right by government action. (Gorenberg 2011, 185.)
15. Which country is the world's only democracy where Jews do not enjoy religious freedom?
The Chief Rabbinate makes Israel the world's only democracy where Jews do not enjoy religious freedom. The Rabbinate has opposed any official recognition by Israel of non-Orthodox/ultra-Orthodox Judaism. (Reform and Conservative movements, which are dominant in the US Jewish community, have a limited presence in Israel.) Abolish Israel’s Chief Rabbinate - Rabbis' Round Table - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
“Every ten years, two rabbis -- one representing Ashkenazi, or European-descended Jews, the other of Sephardic, or Middle Eastern lineage -- are appointed to co-lead the chief rabbinate. It's the country's supreme body overseeing civil services for Jews from cradle to grave -- circumcision, [conversion,] marriage, divorce and burial….For the past two decades, ultra-Orthodox Jewish political parties have wielded outsized influence in governing coalitions and, in turn, held sway over the panel of 150 rabbis and politicians that appoints the new chief rabbis.” (Montreal Gazette, Feb. 14, 2013, A17.)
19. According to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef -- a former Chief Rabbi of Israel and a recognised scholar on Jewish law -- can a religious Jewish doctor break Sabbath rules to save the life of a non-Jew?
No. Rabbi Yosef: Treating gentiles violates Sabbath - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews
In 2005, Rabbi Yosef had this to say concerning Hurricane Katrina: “There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study…black people reside there (in New Orleans). Blacks will study the Torah? (God said) let's bring a tsunami and drown them.” Israel's secrect Iran meeting between security officials and Rabbi who wants to 'annihilate' Arabs
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6. Why is English not taught at ultra-Orthodox schools?
Israel invests significant amounts of money in the independent educational systems run by ultra-Orthodox political parties, however, “the boys who study there will never learn math, English, geography or civics. This is so they will never be able to earn a decent living and emerge from under the rabbis' thumbs. Only a suicidal state would agree to have a large and growing sector live off allowances and grants, without learning core subjects, serving in the military or making a living.”
Haaretz.Com
According to an ultra-Orthodox principal, “The moment a boy studies English, he's more exposed to the wider world, and he naturally leaves religion, and he can even engage in intermarriage, like in America.” (Gorenberg 2011, 187.)
7. What percentage of ultra-Orthodox Israeli men aged thirty-five to fifty-four (prime working years) were not employed in 1979? 2008?
1979: 20 percent; 2008: 65 percent. (Gorenberg 2011, 177, 178.)
Young ultra-Orthodox Israelis are becoming the world's poorest Jewish population due to their employment prospects, declining financial support from parents, declining welfare allowances from the state, and their high number of children. http://jppi.org.il/news/127/58/The-Haredi-Challenge/
Young ultra-Orthodox couples, normally poor with plans for large families, “are desperate for inexpensive apartments….At the end of the 1980s, the government began using that [desperation to draw them] into the settlement enterprise.” In 1990, 350 ultra-Orthodox settlers moved into Beitar Illit and for apartments paid “$60,000, with the government providing a $50,000 interest-free mortgage. Four years later, the first residents arrived in what would become the town of Modi'in Illit, east of Tel Aviv. The two communities grew faster than any other settlements in the West Bank. By the end of 2009, they were also the two largest settlements, with a total of 81,000 residents…Virtually every extended [ultra-Orthodox] family in Israel now has members living” in occupied Palestinian territory. Therefore, they have “a vested interest in the territories” and have been converted to the extreme right by government action. (Gorenberg 2011, 185.)
15. Which country is the world's only democracy where Jews do not enjoy religious freedom?
The Chief Rabbinate makes Israel the world's only democracy where Jews do not enjoy religious freedom. The Rabbinate has opposed any official recognition by Israel of non-Orthodox/ultra-Orthodox Judaism. (Reform and Conservative movements, which are dominant in the US Jewish community, have a limited presence in Israel.) Abolish Israel’s Chief Rabbinate - Rabbis' Round Table - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
“Every ten years, two rabbis -- one representing Ashkenazi, or European-descended Jews, the other of Sephardic, or Middle Eastern lineage -- are appointed to co-lead the chief rabbinate. It's the country's supreme body overseeing civil services for Jews from cradle to grave -- circumcision, [conversion,] marriage, divorce and burial….For the past two decades, ultra-Orthodox Jewish political parties have wielded outsized influence in governing coalitions and, in turn, held sway over the panel of 150 rabbis and politicians that appoints the new chief rabbis.” (Montreal Gazette, Feb. 14, 2013, A17.)
19. According to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef -- a former Chief Rabbi of Israel and a recognised scholar on Jewish law -- can a religious Jewish doctor break Sabbath rules to save the life of a non-Jew?
No. Rabbi Yosef: Treating gentiles violates Sabbath - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews
In 2005, Rabbi Yosef had this to say concerning Hurricane Katrina: “There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study…black people reside there (in New Orleans). Blacks will study the Torah? (God said) let's bring a tsunami and drown them.” Israel's secrect Iran meeting between security officials and Rabbi who wants to 'annihilate' Arabs
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