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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE:
Today, it was reported that the Israeli Army threatened a
(religious) teenage girl, Hodoya E. (see below), with arrest - over her
refusal to violate Torah Law by submitting to a Rayon Das (a military
"Religiosity"-Interrogation tribunal). Please keep posted to our update
link at the end of the article copied below.
What
can we actually do about it? As Jews of the Diaspora, we have an
additional capacity to impede such crimes against innocent girls
(religious or otherwise, Jewish or gentile). We have the ability to
share information intelligently within our spheres of influence,
specifically writing letters to the editor (of any publication), and
getting sincere Rabbonim and community activists informed,
prompting them to speak out against this religious persecution of noshim
tzidkoniyos (righteous women, in the merit of whom the Final
Redemption will come; see Kav HaYashar 82; Yalkut Shimoni on Rus 4, 606,
end). Please share (either of) these links:
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{The similar version below (posted today at https:// firstamendmentactivist. blogspot.com/2020/07/idf- targeting-religious-girls-in. html) was included in the weekly CJV email of this week, in the Israel section, as usual.}
Israeli Army Draft Office Flagging Girls in Less Religious Schools for Religious Interrogation
23 Tammuz, 5780 °° July 15, '20
Parshas Matos - Masei
By Binyomin Feinberg
feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com
Parshas Matos - Masei
By Binyomin Feinberg
feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com
As
reported previously, in a major development over the past several
weeks, the Draft Office of the Israeli Army (operating under the entity
"Meitav") is flagging teenage girls who study, or studied in
less-religious or non-religious schools - summoning them to a "Rayon
Dat" (a military "Religiosity Interview," or, more often,
interrogation). These girls are now receiving this order even without
stepping into the Draft Office. Until now, it was generally only after
entering the Draft Office that such girls would be identified, and only
then confronted with a summons to the Draft Office. Now, girls are
facing this formidable challenge earlier in the process, as young as
about 16-1/2 years old, soon after they obtain their religiosity
verification from the Rabbanut (Israeli Rabbinate). Apparently, there's a new Army protocol in place to flag all such girls on a wholesale basis.
Moreover, the Rabbanut itself - primarily in Jerusalem - has lately reported to have been asking multiple girls where they study, in a seemingly innocent, but potentially catastrophic departure from Rabbanut protocol. Coincidentally, girls asked that question are finding themselves suddenly summoned to the Draft Offices. Is the Rabbanut sharing that information with the Draft Office? Are we to assume it's merely coincidental that these same girls are shortly thereafter being ordered to appear before a military panel for religiosity interrogations?
Moreover, the Rabbanut itself - primarily in Jerusalem - has lately reported to have been asking multiple girls where they study, in a seemingly innocent, but potentially catastrophic departure from Rabbanut protocol. Coincidentally, girls asked that question are finding themselves suddenly summoned to the Draft Offices. Is the Rabbanut sharing that information with the Draft Office? Are we to assume it's merely coincidental that these same girls are shortly thereafter being ordered to appear before a military panel for religiosity interrogations?
Even
if the Rabbanut is in fact not providing that information to Army
headhunters, it's apparent - to volunteer women assisting these teenage
girls - that the recent Rabbanut shift in policy (questioning girls about their schooling while they are simply seeking religiosity documentation) is indicative of some form of Army-Rabbanut coordination.
Activist volunteers with "Chomosaich" report that about NINE such girls now are now facing Rayon Dat interview appointments - despite having followed proper procedures to avoid that. A lawyer active assisting the girls is running up against a brick wall.
Thus, these girls will likely need either a more expensive lawyer, or face the prospects faced by other female religious objectors, including threat of arrest, incarceration, and abuse by police, prison, and judicial authorities, as recently experienced by Hadasah Margolit Yakovov (20 y/o daughter of a Chareidi Bucharian immigrants), released after almost a month in Military Prison Four in wake of her refusal to enlist (see last week's post http://daattorah.
One
example is the current Army pursuit Hodoyah E. Noteworthy is that in a
written response this week to her attorney, Meitav conveniently neglects
to address the recent Rabbanut directive to provide Corona-period
extensions to girls requiring Rabbanut assistance, as raised in a letter
the attorney sent on behalf of Hodoyah in June.
Furthermore,
whatever explanation the Army may proffer to explain this needs to be
seen in context of timing. They're embarking on this new policy just as
Corona is resurgent. Does the risk of not drafting a few girls actually
justify the risk of endangering yet more people within the Army and in
the civilian population?
Volunteers
with "Chomosaich" observe that if this latest Army escalation against
traditional and Mizrachi girls is left unchecked, then soon - G-d forbid
- the only girls guaranteed their religious service exemption
entitlements will be Chareidi girls of politically- connected affiliations.
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"... And if someone, like Pinchos, is one among a multitude, and every man is against him when he dares to speak out for truth and to fight for the Law -- the more lonely his stand, the greater the number of his adversaries, the more powerful is his word, the mightier his deed."
-- Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch OB"M (1808-1888), (in "Judaism Eternal," vol. 2, p. 293)
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Update link for the month of Tammuz to check in case we post during the week between our regular Wednesday/ Thursday posts:
https://docs.google.com/
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This week's post ends there, but for additional reportage and perspective, these links may be useful:
Selected reports on conscription of girls/ women into the Israeli military:
http://firstamendmentactivist. blogspot.com/2020/01/never- again.html
https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2020/01/protesting- antireligious-persecution-by. html
https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/12/modern-day- yedudis-heroism.html
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These 2 appeared in the weekly email of the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) week of Parshas Vayishlach 5780 (12 Dec.,19)
https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/12/facilitating- suicide_51.html
http://daattorah.blogspot.com/ 2019/12/crime-wave-strikes- israeli-girls.html
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https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/11/breaking- heartbreaking-news-army.html
(Nov. 7, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/11/breaking-very- laws-they-make.html
(Nov. 6, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/10/racial-profiling- or-pure-antireligious.html
(Oct. 30, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/11/female-idf- refuseniks-cheshvan.html
https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/11/to-even-close- yeshivos.html
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https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/10/outrage-upon- outrage.html
(Parshas Beraishis)
https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/10/making-racism- great-again.html
(Oct 8, 2019)
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Violating the Vineyard:
https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/08/alh-report-2-28- augviolating-vineyard.html
(28 Aug.)
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Update:
https://daattorah.blogspot. com/2019/09/violating- vineyard-update.html
(4 Ellul, '79; see Jewish Press, Sept.13,'19).
http://firstamendmentactivist.
https://daattorah.blogspot.
https://daattorah.blogspot.
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These 2 appeared in the weekly email of the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) week of Parshas Vayishlach 5780 (12 Dec.,19)
https://daattorah.blogspot.
http://daattorah.blogspot.com/
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Nov. 7, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Nov. 6, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Oct. 30, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
https://daattorah.blogspot.
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Parshas Beraishis)
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Oct 8, 2019)
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Violating the Vineyard:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(28 Aug.)
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Update:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(4 Ellul, '79; see Jewish Press, Sept.13,'19).