No, Your Rabbis Don't Know

There’s a fascinating article in Mishpacha magazine by Gedalya Guttentag about charedim and the draft. Guttentag begins in a very valuable way, by speaking about some of the tremendous sacrifice that the rest of the country has made, and noting that there are religious soldiers among the casualties.

The rest of the article, however, is utter codswallop.

A wartime election campaign prompted by a failure to pass a draft law will be about one thing only: bashing the chareidim.

No, not “bashing.” Poin...