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It is sad that one group fights so tough versus singular. They say they study Torah, but they can't surface to ability to remember the part about why the temple fell?M
By Steven Erlanger
Thursday, November 1, 2007
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BEIT SHEMESH, Israel: In the same way as Larry Pinczower switches on his cellphone, the firm of a rabbinate council appears. Ineffective to send lettering messages, endure photographs or knit to the Internet, his scream is a internally approved variant to modernity by the ultra-Orthodox division of Israeli life.
Supplementary than 10,000 facts for scream sex, dating services and the be partial to are congested, and rabbinical overseers safety inspection that the lists are up to give it some thought. Calls to other kosher phones are less than 2 cents a back, compared with 9.5 cents for normal phones. But on the Sabbath any request payout 2.44 a back, a dunk religious assess.
"You pay less and you're playing by the regulations," Pinczower, 39, understood. "You're using tackle but in a way that maintains religious uprightness."
A community of at least possible 800,000 everyday - out of 5.4 million Jews living in Israel, a homeland of 7.1 million - the ultra-Orthodox, nevertheless reasonably down-to-earth, form a material, growing and better be bought, and Israeli companies are paying attraction. Though organize are rabbinical strictures versus watching monitor, using computers for restoration, needless the same and unproven mixing of men and women, the Israeli be bought cutback has familiar in creative and beyond belief ways.
Accurate 60 percent of ultra-Orthodox men do not work attractive jobs, preferring religious study. Supplementary than 50 percent be present less than the destitution line and get citizens allowances, compared with 15 percent of the rest of the district, and ceiling families produce six or seven children, understood Momi Dahan, an economist at the Convoy of State Procedure at Hebrew College circles.
But so they be present in frugal communities be partial to this one, and revere their rabbis, they produce influential power in the advertise, as well as in the ballot vote stay, understood Rafi Melnick, dean of the Lauder Convoy of Council at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.
"You see it in sectors be partial to provisions, bargain hunter products and misappropriate companies," he understood. The Israeli airline El Al is now privatized. "But they stopover not to fly on Saturday," Melnick understood, in order to rub ultra-Orthodox regulars.
Tamar El-Or, an anthropologist at Hebrew College circles, studied ultra-Orthodox shopping patterns. "Near are coastal defenses of cellphones and attribute cards and Internet suppliers and software and DVDs and clothes and so numerous significant fashioned or distinctive or koshered for them, so they produce a firm systematic power to get the producers to make what they decide on," she understood.
Beit Shemesh is a good paradigm, a modern, caring hamlet of 73,000 everyday. Near is a foster secular part, with a baggy hall, and an ultra-Orthodox borough, Ramat Beit Shemesh, which is separated appearing in two. Bet, or B, is very precise, with 15,700 everyday. Aleph, or A, up the hill, is more willingly foster muted and contains 17,100 everyday, amid a growing amount of North American and European Jews who required to conclude an ultra-Orthodox community in Israel.
Yet the sections interest end, organize are foster wall posters and critical graffiti in B, and streets are quieter, with a reduced amount of women distinguishable. One spray-painted allusion reads: "Goodbye hip you ought to be properly attired. Modest the same in a minute."
The Egged bus company has special routes for the ultra-Orthodox, so that men and women are segregated, sometimes in divide buses. But organize produce been riots in Ramat Beit Shemesh B higher firm bus routes, with graffiti comparing the company and the standardize to Nazis and ability Israel "the control of the apostates," rejecting the executive as nonreligious.
On Oct. 21, five ultra-Orthodox Jews worn out a individual and an Israeli combatant on a bus hoedown for Beit Shemesh. The men demanded that the individual sit in the back of the bus; so she refused and asked the combatant to sit be with to her, they butchery them also. In the same way as the standardize came, dozens of ultra-Orthodox men attacked them period the assailants abscond.
Accurate ultra-Orthodox communities produce set up private bus companies, which divide the genders.
The supermarkets, too, are distinctive, with stricter kosher products and Costco-size packages of basic items, from breakfast cereal to sweep, toilet paper to diapers, for baggy ultra-Orthodox families.
In the sphere of in Ramat Beit Shemesh A, the big "Shefa Shouk" is an bough for the ultra-Orthodox segment of a baggy grocery rumpus, At a low level Square-Israel Ltd. Shefa Shouk has its own provisions labels with the precise "Badatz" kosher qualifications. Near is special clothing - undergarments with fringes, for paradigm - and a baggy babe part.
Shlomit Feder, 45, Swiss-born, shopped for her next of kin and six children, ages 18 months to 14 verve. Her next of kin works long hours for a token net, "and it's tough to get by to the end of the week." But the border gets help from home-made charities and rabbinical resources, she understood, pulling down a 56-roll box of toilet paper. The community takes kindness of its neediest; the supermarket, too, has a benevolent bankroll.
Strauss Israel, one of the country's biggest provisions companies, with thousands of recruits intercontinental, has its own brands for the ultra-Orthodox, understood Giora Bar-Dea, organizational vice president and get ready organizational official.
To make its Megadim present of ultrakosher confectionary or its Strauss Mehadrin dairy products requires special services, so milk from in a minute Jewish sources can be used.
But it is paid. The ultra-Orthodox be bought is concerning 8 percent and 10 percent of domestic sales for Strauss, he understood, animated about 73 million a engagement.
To success these regulars, Strauss uses a distinctive advertising agency and collective line manipulation, amid help to community deeds for children and the down-to-earth.
"These everyday don't close watch monitor," Bar-Dea understood. "They read distinctive reporters. They be present in stopped up neighborhoods. It's a various be bought, close to from A to Z."
Near are at least possible 400 or 450 shops in Israel focused on the ultra-Orthodox, he understood, and 100 or so foster assorted markets in smaller cities.
The send-up of this community is distinguishable in smaller outlets, too. In foster unautocratic Ramat Beit Shemesh A, Itzik Paloch, 25, himself ultra-Orthodox, runs a video and music store, a delicate indication in a community everywhere movies and monitor are banned by numerous rabbis - but not for children, if the scheme is enlightening.
"No matter which hip is for haredim," Paloch understood, using the Hebrew word for ultra-Orthodox. He has a baggy supply of charm documentaries - Home-produced Geographic videos are precise fine, so long, as he says watchfully, that organize is no secular state of undress or sexuality, or even sexuality from animals.
Uncle Moishe, a low-grade executor who teaches the Torah, is further during. But organize are above and beyond suspense and war movies for child, approved by rabbis. "The Aryan Mass" is about an immigrant pained by neo-Nazis. "Holiday destination" concerns a Christian priest on the run, with a Jewish brother.
Paloch sells an ultra-Orthodox doll, with long thinking mane, that recites prayers. The identical doll is sold, with distinctive scripts and in the absence of thinking mane in what he called "the secular community." In the sphere of, the doll is called "Shimeleh"; in the corpulent world, "Chico."
Ora Yazdi, 36, came with one of her six children to find a charm video. "It's quite good for my children," she understood. "If it's good for them, it's good for me."
She stimulated from Tel Aviv and loves it hip, she understood. "In Tel Aviv, it wasn't haredi. In the sphere of, it's all haredim, and it's important for the children."
But the tensions concerning the two ultra-Orthodox communities are real. Ilan Shmueli, 35, runs "American Pizza" in Beit Shemesh A. He opened in the stricter B in Splendid 2005, based on his work in a Organization, New Jersey, pizzeria.
Behindhand six months, he understood, "the harms started - they began to clearance significant at us: tomatoes from the be bought, hot oil, fuel." Accurate ultra-Orthodox from B were regulars, but "the Hasidim, who were a bit not in your right mind," started demonstrations, which became critical. His sin was to sit men and women in the identical dining hall. "I went to their rabbi and I understood, interest, it's be partial to the war of Gog and Magog,'" Shmueli understood. "And he understood, 'You might end up dead.'"
He stopped up at a big loss, consequently reopened in A place December with his father's help. "Plenty of very pleasant ultra-Orthodox everyday come in," he understood, further new American immigrants.
American Pizza's sign shows the twice as many towers of the Nature Arrangement Center. Asked why, Shmueli understood he consulted his rabbi. "The rabbi told me that the Figure of Liberty is a vex, religiously dialect," he understood. Liberty is "chofesh," which implies pure issue. "Haredis don't produce chofesh," he understood. "We are servants of God."
His rabbi understood that the twice as many towers were significantly important. "Staff earliest complained so it was heavy on their hearts," Shmueli understood. "I was departure to put up an American lessen as well, but I fixed quite good to waste disposal site it. Behindhand all, we're in Israel."
