An apology is due the ultra-Orthodox.
“Get the Ḥasidim!”
Ultra-Orthodox Jews have been one of the hardest-hit groups in Israel and elsewhere. Why?
Public-health measures or religious repression?
Culpability begins with Health Minister Yaakov Litzman.
Made for religious women, by religious women.
Another casualty of the peace process.
Even chief rabbis have obligations to the Jewish people.
Driven less by expedience than by a commitment to Jewish particularism.
Even before an election, some rhetoric crosses a line.
“Our sin was to have whitewashed the Crown Heights pogrom of 1991 and lavished its instigator Al Sharpton with respectability.”
Hasidim in the mist.
The Idiom and the Oddity.
“If a father doesn’t teach his son a trade, it’s as if he taught him highway robbery.”