Sunday, April 25, 2010

Ramat Beit Shemesh mikve - Chareidim v. Modern Orthodox


JPost

Friction between two religious communities in Ramat Beit Shemesh has surfaced once again, this time over who should take responsibility for the mikve (ritual bath) in a neighborhood that is equally inhabited by both haredi and  national religious communities, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The tension is focusing on a mikve that opened roughly two years ago on Nahal Dolev and was divided in two last summer by the city’s Religious Council so each community could follow its own interpretation of Jewish law.[...]


5 comments:

  1. JPost!? If even one word of that story has an element of truth to it, it would almost be a record.

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  2. Why are Chareidim so afraid of a free exchange of ideas? Are they that insecure about their weltanschaung, do they have such little faith in their laity's commitment to Halacha that cannot allow any divergent POV to exist on their periphery?

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  3. I live in Ramat Beit Shemesh and I have spoken to one of the Rabanim in the Daati Leumi camp. And he has confirmed that these allegations are indeed true. Some of the speculative comments in the Jpost article are not factual but the background and the main issues (women being forced to submitt to "chareidi" mikve standards) are going on.

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  4. Don't forget that this is the same city leadership that silently observes while chareidi fanatics beat up flag waving teens on yom Haatzmaut (this is fact- I spoke to the mother of a boy who was in the emergency room after being brutally attacked in RBS-B) or tear people's Israeli flags off of cars. The city leadership either quietly condones Chareidi bullying or they lack the resolve to do anything about it.

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  5. Why do Chareidim try to solve every problem with hatred and violence?

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