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  • January 31, 2013 12:59 pm at 12:59 pm in reply to: How Much Money Does the Israeli Government Give to Kollel Families? #927118
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    $200 a month per family doesn’t cost much in relative terms. It doesn’t cost much and is only a very little help.

    Indeed, many frum kollel families in EY don’t even take the money. (Brisk, Satmar, Toldos Ahron, NK, etc.)

    January 31, 2013 10:21 am at 10:21 am in reply to: Good Riddance Mr. Haim Amsallem #925533
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    DaMoshe: Where is that letter/response posted?

    January 31, 2013 10:17 am at 10:17 am in reply to: Bridesmaids #926169
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    It’s a purely goyish thing that has absolutely no place at a Jewish chasuna.

    January 31, 2013 2:54 am at 2:54 am in reply to: Royal Jordanian Airlines #925319
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    Is there anything an American Jew touring Arab countries with a U.S. Passport needs to be aware of or act differently than any other American touring there?

    January 31, 2013 12:34 am at 12:34 am in reply to: How Much Money Does the Israeli Government Give to Kollel Families? #927113
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    gaw: Will Arab-Israeli citizens also lose “First Type” benefits if they opt out of Army service, or will they discriminate only against Torah Jews?

    January 30, 2013 11:28 pm at 11:28 pm in reply to: Is This Normal? #925322
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    I guess threads like these are allowed through to generate more posts.

    January 30, 2013 10:49 pm at 10:49 pm in reply to: How Much Money Does the Israeli Government Give to Kollel Families? #927110
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    I thought the rule was if you leave Kollel before age 28 you can get drafted, but after 28 you can go to work without serving.

    January 30, 2013 7:33 pm at 7:33 pm in reply to: How Much Money Does the Israeli Government Give to Kollel Families? #927104
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    So the entire attack on kolleleit in Eretz Yisroel is over a mere $200 (750 NIS) a month?!? If the kollel families agreed to forfeit $200 a month ($2400 a year), the chilonim will have no further basis to keep harassing the kolleleit for taking money while not serving in their army?

    I say it may be worth giving up the $200 to get them off our backs.

    January 30, 2013 6:06 pm at 6:06 pm in reply to: How Much Money Does the Israeli Government Give to Kollel Families? #927097
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    Yael.a said it is $200 a month for a family with children. How is it possible to subsist on so little?

    January 24, 2013 6:46 pm at 6:46 pm in reply to: akuperma #1114282
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    uneeq: There are many many more people who read comments who never post a thing themselves, than there are posters. A comment that has no response still has many readers.

    January 24, 2013 6:16 pm at 6:16 pm in reply to: English is Absent and Math Doesn't Count at Brooklyn's Biggest Yeshivas #924919
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    1) The Yeshivas in Brooklyn outperform NYC public school students on standardized tests. (High School Regents, SATs, etc.)

    2) Like someone mentioned above, Volozhin closed its doors rather than submit to giving the government required secular studies program. We are on solid ground in minimizing secular studies.

    January 24, 2013 4:37 pm at 4:37 pm in reply to: Israeli Chareidim moving to chutz la'Aretz? #942114
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    You must be referring to the statements of Gedolei Yisroel that if the tziyonim try to rip the Bnei Torah out of the Beis Medrash, it will be better to live in C”L and learn than in E”Y and not learn.

    Regarding your point, in America many Bnei Torah spend their lives in the Beis Medrash. So, yes, it in fact is able to be done.

    January 24, 2013 3:56 am at 3:56 am in reply to: akuperma #1114271
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    Bear: Does vin use shill posters?

    January 24, 2013 2:39 am at 2:39 am in reply to: Jews Resisting the Zionist Draft #939935
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    No, they’re not free to leave. 1) They live in EY longer than the johnny-come-lately Zionists. 2) America and no other country will grant tens of thousands of residency visas to Israeli citizens.

    They aren’t offering national service to include the existing Chareidi Chesed infrastructure. They are demanding mixed-environment services.

    Perhaps you forgot, but a couple of years ago the Israeli Supreme Court ordered integration of the Beis Yaakov in Emannuel. The Gedolim said we must resist and they themselves came out to the mass street protests. In the end, the courts order for integration was defeated on the ground. It never happened.

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