Cognitive Dissonance

In my previous post, Clueless People, I described how many well-meaning American religious Jews are simply unaware of the realities of Israel, and of how their values are actually better reflected by the Dati-Leumi community rather than by the charedi community. Subsequently, a few people reached out to me and correctly pointed out that I had left out another important part of the picture.

Being a religious Jew in the US or UK is the same as what being a religious Jew has been about for the past ...