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The Colorado Hebrew Chorale and Kol Nashim announce May-June 2024 events spanning festivals, memorials, and concerts, benefiting the Jerusalem Shelter for Battered Women.
An Israeli minister said Thursday that after Hamas's October 7 attack, there was no longer a "moral" justification to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from army service, breaking a long-standing taboo within his community.Interior Minister Moshe Arbel, of ultra-Orthodox party Shas, said that "the reality after October 7 is that the ultra-Orthodox community must understand that it is no longer possible to continue like this."
Israel's decades-old exemption from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews is poised to end Monday, a divisive move that imperils the coalition government as the nation is at war with Hamas.While Israel has been at war against the Palestinian militants in Gaza for almost six months, the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory service has been increasingly criticised.