The Belz of Change

The alarm bells in Israel were ringing long before October 7th shattered assumptions about security. A third of Jewish first-graders were in charedi school systems that were opposed to secular education and professional careers, let alone army service. Poverty in the charedi sector was creating disaster not only for that community, but also posed a threat to the entire country. As Jonathan Rosenblum pointed out years ago in Mishpacha magazine, a growing community that is undereducated and undere...