Noah and Charedi Draft-Dodgers

(Above: A chassidic Noah on his ark, by Israeli artist Tanya Lombrozo, on exhibit at the Biblical Museum of Natural History)

Some people claim that I’m singularly obsessed with the topic of charedim and army. Inevitably, these are people in charedi society whose children are not in the army. With those people in Israel who are part of wider society in which tremendous and terrible sacrifices are being made, they are generally likewise intensely upset about the charedi lack of participation, which...