Israeli society debates the value of Haredi jobs, but Patrick Leigh Fermor saw the ultra-Orthodox hard at work (religious)

[Pruzhany]

The intense and often corrosive debates on ultra-Orthodox military service in
the state of Israel, debates which have continued for more than six decades,
have in recent years been accompanied by a discourse of nearly equal intensity
(and sometimes greater corrosiveness) on the subject of Haredim in the
workforce......

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news...eligious-labor

[iwishiwerethin]

Why don't you open a separate thread called "Pruzhany links"

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by iwishiwerethin

Why don't you open a separate thread called "Pruzhany links"

let it be typed, let it be done. Thread created.

[theflipflop]

I say it's in the merit of all that Torah study that the workers of Israel even have an Israel to work in.

You say it's in the merit of all that hard work that the Torah Jews of Israel even have an Israel to sit and learn.

I say our blessings come from Hashem. You say they come from the brow of our own hard work. Just two very different hashkafos, although both coming from Yidden.

Nothing new here, me thinks.

I hope you all have a wonderful Shabbos.