these are the nanas, and believe it or not, they re ultra-orthodox jews. but not like any i ve ever seen. they re not the misty cal branch of the haredim. the movement started in the 80s and followed the teachings of someone who lived 200 years ago. very little separates them from the haredim. they follow a strict interpretation of the torah. they, too, are exempt from military service. their men also do not work. they are supported by their wives. they espouse a strict segregation of genders.
tell our children, that s where you re going to be. only her sons have a shot of making the wall. women in the haredim are forbidden from becoming rabbis. her daughter will receive some schooling and then like her mother, she ll be expected to marry young, to have children and work full-time to support the family financially so that her husband can devote his life to studying the torah. i was born in the states. it is easier to live as a haredi here than there, because there you are full of distractions. wrou like to see this state be a little more forceful in applying hanukkah? yes, that should be the direction we should be taking. when i talk to secular israelis, i can t help but sense a kind of resentment. i don t think that attention is avoidable. if you claim ownership on this land, it s only because it said in the bible that god gave it to
spend enough time in israel and it s hard to be optimistic about the future. the conflict between the ultra orthodox and secular jews is not diminiing. when i look, and the way that th have made ultra orthodox their own, i can t help but think maybe it s israel changing the ultra orthodox and in that, there is hope.
he doesn t accept it as much as my parents. he s more the strict letter of the law. i came from a nonreligious family. but in my heart i feel like something is missing. when i was with my friends driving, one junction we stopped and i remember the speaker. the speaker said be happy always. and i said to myself, oh, i know what he s talking about. so, i decided to check him out. he died 200 years ago. one of the things i ve been noticing since being here and talking to different people, both secular and haredim, i find a big gulf between them. do you guys feel like you can kind of be a bridge between these two groups?
middle of the streets. no one seemed to mind, except the haredi, of course. and the entire time we kept singing over and over and over again, na-na-na-ma-na-man based on the letters there was no ball, no separation, no dos and don ts. just pure unadulterated happiness. while the rabbi is buried,