Quantcast


Advertisement

The God Blog

Email | Print | Text - Text +

December 27, 2011 | 9:40 pm

Peres: ‘fighting for the soul of the nation’ in rift between Ultra Orthodox Jews and other Israelis

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

An ongoing story in Israel is the tension between Ultra Orthodox and secular or more moderate religious Jews. Shmuel Rosner recently called it “Israel’s demographic time bomb”—and I’ve mentioned reports of Ultra Orthodox Jews rallying for racism and trashing an ice cream shop for “promoting promiscuity.”

The issue has come to the fore in the past week because an 8-year-old girl says that Ultra Orthodox men accused her of dressing immodestly and spat on her as she walked to school. It’s bad enough that Israeli President Shimon Peres urged the nation to mobilize against efforts by the Ultra Orthodox in Beit Shemesh.

Reuters reports:

“We are fighting for the soul of the nation and the essence of the state,” Peres said in broadcast remarks at an event at his official residence.

(skip)

“Today is a test in which the entire nation will have to mobilise to rescue the majority from the claws of a small minority that is chipping away at our most hallowed values,” Peres said.

“No person has the right to threaten a girl, a woman or any person in any way,” he said. “They are not the lords of this land.”

Read the rest here.

0 Comments — Leave your comment

Share this post: del.icio.us Favicondel.icio.us Digg FaviconDigg Facebook FaviconFacebook Google FaviconGoogle Reddit FaviconReddit StumbleUpon FaviconStumbleUpon Technorati FaviconTechnorati YahooMyWeb FaviconYahooMyWeb

COMMENTS

We welcome your feedback. Comments may not exceed 700 characters.

Privacy Policy

Your information will not be shared or sold without your consent. Get all the details.

Terms of Service

JewishJournal.com has rules for its commenting community.Get all the details.

Post a Comment

Name:  
Email:  

Type the word you see below:

Comment:


About this Blog

Blog Home
About the Blogger(s)
Contact

RSS


Blog Archive






Newspaper

Serving a community of 600,000, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is the largest Jewish weekly outside New York City. Our award-winning paper reaches over 150,000 educated, involved and affluent readers each week. Subscribe here.

© Copyright 2012 Tribe Media Corp.
All rights reserved. JewishJournal.com is hosted by Nexcess.net. Homepage design by Koret Communications.
Widgets by Mijits. Site construction by Hop Studios.

counter fake hit page