Soaring enlistment of hareidi religious men bodes well for the IDF and for society in general, according to the army’s Human Resources branch director, Brigadier-General Amir Rogovski.
In the past six years, the number of hareidi soldiers has grown from 300 to 3,000, allowing them better job opportunities in the future and encouraging their integration into the general work force, Rogovski added.
“I think that the first place of tension between the hareidi religious community and general society is in the IDF,” he said. “Despite the tension, we see a lot of success, and 90 percent of the hareidi religious men who serve in the IDF enter the force after they are discharged.”
He also noted that contrary to popular opinion, most of the hareidi religious soldiers enlist under the age of 24.
Moreover, Rogovski pointed out that accusations that the IDF makes special concessions for the hareidi religious community are totally wrong when taking into consideration, it changes its standards and demands for other sectors of society.
“We also make changes for olim [new immigrants],” he said. The IDF also has special units for young men who come from broken families and also for those with criminal records.”
“I don’t hear any complaints about special conditions for them,” Rogovski said.
Okay, I should’ve said you haven’t established it to my satisfaction.
This is not about ‘cowardice,’ Yamit, it’s about sensibility.
If it were cowardice, why wouldn’t I just concede? — that would be truly cowardly, in the absence of conviction.
Look. Here’s the thing (as O’Reilly would put it):
If I’m not convinced by an argument, it doesn’t mean I necessarily DO know at that moment the correct one. It may just mean that something in the profferred explanation doesn’t sit right with me, so I’m keeping an open mind in the matter, while keeping an eye out for something more resonant. There’s a very important discipline in that, deliberately maintaining an open mind; I recommend it.
Strictly an assumption; and interestingly, a left-brained one. You assume that it has to be either/or. I suggest it could be BOTH — viz., individual AND collective.
Who says “worship” — His contentment OR dissatisfaction with it — has anything at all to do with it?
You’re looking for a sign. What makes you think He wants you to be looking for ‘signs’?
I think you’re just superimposing something of your OWN over what is essentially a mystery.
Don’t misunderstand me: I’m glad that you wonder about this stuff — and I’m genuinely impressed that it’s important to you — but I think you’d be less tortured by it if your ego were willing to admit to what it doesn’t know.
You ASSUME that the Sh’chinah is dependent on those things.
Nu, and if a Jew arrives who becomes a burden on the State & community, THEN what?
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I could argue against your theory but that is not my main point. My main point is that there was an awful lot of Sin’at Chinam (baseless hatred) going around within all of the spheres of European Jewry at the time. This is what did in the Jews in Israel at the time of the 2nd Temple’s destruction. It was they who were annihilated, not the Jews in Bavel.
Lesson still not learned.
Watch interesting perspectives on religious Jews in the IDF
Bland this is especially for you, I recommend everyone should see this clip.
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Religious women on the rise at IDF officer school
By YAAKOV KATZ
12/05/2011 23:27
46 religiously observant women soldiers are currently studying to become IDF officers, up from 25 in 2010.