Comments on: Where are the Muslim Judges when we need them?

By: Moishe Potemkin

Moishe Potemkin — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:14:15 +0000

If I may echo Pesach’s observations - without gainsaying the problems in contemporary society, I think that when the Torah-saturated community withdraws from general society (be it the army, or even the general workforce), then its attempts to influence the direction of general society from the “outside” will fail. Both the charedim and the chilonim seem to agree that Torah and contemporary society are incompatible, a point not disproven by even the most sincere rallies and “sadness shading over to mourning”.

- Moishe Potemkin

By: Menachem Kovacs

Menachem Kovacs — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:55:52 +0000

Shira Schmidt’s excellent piece on the Israeli media’s slants on the news seems to have a number of implications, among them the need to imagine and implement better ways to use various media forms including this one (and music like that of Matisyahu the Chasidic reggae singer and comics(!) and films like Ushpizin) to educate our Jewish brothers and sisters about the immorality, the absurdity, the sadness of the media, the courts, the education establishment legitimating toeva relationships and educating them about the beauty, stability, and happiness in a life based on traditional Torah values.

By: Pesach

Pesach — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:08:00 +0000

Excellent, especially your concluding line!
Are we chareidim partially at fault because (1) of our focus on financial benefits which emasculate our voice, and (2) because of our isolation and poor PR, from the chavrei knesset to the autobus.
Does not the shabbos rally preach to the choir?

By: Rally

Rally — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:52:25 +0000

There were _not_ 32,000 at the shabbos rally. Not even close. It was more like 18,000 at best. It was a very big disappointment