{"id":186272,"date":"2014-03-14T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/14\/the-cowardice-and-hypocrisy-of-some-haredim-in-one-sentence\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:17:00","slug":"the-cowardice-and-hypocrisy-of-some-haredim-in-one-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/14\/the-cowardice-and-hypocrisy-of-some-haredim-in-one-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cowardice and Hypocrisy of Some Haredim in One Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

That sentence was, 50 Thousand Haredim March So Only Other Jews Die in War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was written by Yori Yanover who used to<\/span><\/b> work for the Jewish Press, a New York based publication that caters to the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim) community.<\/p>\n

They canned him, and deleted the page, though it is still available in the Google cache<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is similar to what goes on with the dole money allotted to Haredim so that they don’t have to work.<\/p>\n

They are using Torah to derive personal benefit, and this is forbidden in normative Judaism, as it is said in Pirkei Avot 4:6, “Do not make the Torah into a crown with which to aggrandize yourself, and don’t use it as a spade with which to dig into them.”<\/p>\n

Basically it means two things:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n