I heard that many secular Israelis hate haredi jews. Is this true or greatly exaggerated and would you welcome more haredi jews to israel?
I know of the concept of tzniut, and the tallit with its tzitzit (Num. 15:38; Deut. 22:12) and the yarmulke (Bavli Shabbat 156b) both make sense to me; the rest of the Jewish menβs clothing, not so much.
https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/jewish-world/2022/01/the-haredi-moment-has-arrived/
The article argues that due to rising numbers and higher levels of communal commitment, Haredim are rapidly increasing their influence in institutions which had previously been controlled by more establishment (liberal Zionist) voices. The success of a Haredi slate in in World Zionist Organization is used as a jumping off point to discuss the tensions that may occur between Haredim and other branches of Judaism as a result, and to discuss approaches to dealing with the tensions.
Do you think that Haredim will inevitably come to dominate many diaspora Jewish organizations that were previously dominated by more liberal movements? If so, are tensions inevitable, or can we work around problems and better understand each other to avoid problems?
I mean, do the parents/rabbis "teach" how to have sex before marriage? Or, do they know instinctually?
If Iβm around more conservative neighborhoods like Mea Sheβarim, is it okay if my ankles are not covered? For example, if Iβm wearing a long sleeved top up to the neckline and a long skirt that goes down to my ankles but Iβm wearing sneakers with no-show socks so that my ankles plus a few inches above are bare-skinned, would that be an issue?
Hoping to avoid opaque stockings but I want to be prepared and buy some if showing bare ankles will be an issue in these areas. Just asking for when Iβm walking around these neighborhoods to buy food/go to restaurants, not for shul or going to anyoneβs home if thatβs helpful for context.
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I've been playing my main man Levi the Liberator since 1.2 dropped and I noticed that he's part of the Yashva'i movement and that there's also Chassids and Torah im Derekh Eretz.
I've been playing for a while and noticed that my grandson who was from a matrilineal marriage with a Rothschild (for the bloodline) changed to Torah im Derekh Eretz so I take it it's inherited from the father but I don't see a way to change that except through marriage shenanigans. Just wondering if there's an event I'm missing.
I thought that modesty (?Χ¦Χ ΧΧ’ΧΧͺ) doesn't apply in a closed, private space. Is it a misrepresentation?
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So im playing as the Gutfreund dynasty with a focus on spreading the haredi faith and whatnot. Not easy, but hella fun. Anyway, ive been able to holy war my way to becoming Melech of Niu Yark and was able to increase the religious authority of haredi to almost 70, but was still knocked to a heresy of reform...who have around 20 authority. Not sure what to do to fix it or combat it. Any suggestions?
I understand that avoiding punishment isn't factored in as a reason to honor the Torah, rather it's simply done because God commanded it and officially that's that with any ideas of enforcement being mere speculation, but a lot of ex-Hasidic Jews say that they were really afraid that something horrible would happen to them when they started breaking the rules. As far as I understand it the idea of temporal, physical punishment for Torah violation is mostly a Hasidic thing, but do you think that Jews who aren't compliant with the Law and don't repent for it will be punished somehow in the Olam Ha-ba?
If you don't believe you would be punished, is it ever difficult to keep to the laws simply because God told you to while knowing that if you disregarded them there would be no consequences, or do the benefits you get spiritually and culturally from practicing make it easy for you? I'm obviously a gentile, but also not a very conscientious person myself, so maybe I'm projecting.
I've recently defended my dissertation titled Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980-2000. The dissertation is the first full-length study of this corpus of texts, and I spoke to several authors and publishers to get a complete story of how Haredi children's publishing developed from the first book in 1980 through 2000 (Yaffa Ganz, Miriam Stark Zakon, Shmuel Blitz, Yossi Leverton, Liat Benyamini Ariel).
In addition to simply telling the story of American Haredi children's literature's development, I also examine the kinds of literacy that this corpus of texts builds: literacies of text (how to read a text, including ideas about layout on the page, who has authority in any given text, and critical engagement with a text), literacies of language (how to incorporate English and Hebrew in making sense of the world), literacies of space (how to read the world around them, with a focus on home and community), and literacies of time (how to read calendar time and history though a particularly Jewish and Haredi lens).
I've worked on the Bais Yaakov Project in the past, though the project has now passed into other hands due to getting funding from the University of Toronto.
I'm working on a digital database and exhibit space for Haredi children's texts and material culture (things like children's siddurim, toys, Gedolim Cards and Torah Cards, etc). I don't have funding for that yet, so it's still in early stages.
Other things I have some knowledge about: medieval British romances; medieval British childhood and adolescence; medieval Ashkenazic childhood and adolescence; medieval Ashkenazic writing about the Crusades; contemporary mainstream children's and YA literature; college writing and rhetoric; archives and archiving.
