Bye Bye Bye

Recently I was chatting with a dati (national-religious) neighbor who, like many Anglos in Ramat Beit Shemesh, has friends spanning both the charedi and dati community here. She told me that she feels as though she’s done with having a mixed social life. Not that she is judging her charedi friends or has anything against them personally; she knows that they moved to Israel with a spirit of idealism, and understands that they joined the charedi community because they simply didn’t realize what it...