https://thisnormallife.com/2012/02/no-more-lying-for-religious-girls/ All about "normal" life in Israel Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.11 https://thisnormallife.com/2012/02/no-more-lying-for-religious-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-497 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:00:38 +0000 https://thisnormallife.com/?p=2520#comment-497 As the deeply religious are obvious strict constructionists of biblical writings I would challenge them to explain why anyone should be exempted from the defense of Israel on any grounds. Could you imagine a youth conscripted to fight the Romans–would he or she have said “Oye, biblical studies come first, and by the way the food is not kosher enough in the army camps.”

]]> https://thisnormallife.com/2012/02/no-more-lying-for-religious-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:21:45 +0000 https://thisnormallife.com/?p=2520#comment-496 I’m in Florida now visiting family… I was at the Boca mall and saw a girl selling- you guessed it- Dead Sea products. I started talking with her, as is my custom, you know, Jewish geography & such, and she was v-e-r-y evasive, unlike most Israelis. Ya think……?

]]> https://thisnormallife.com/2012/02/no-more-lying-for-religious-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:41:09 +0000 https://thisnormallife.com/?p=2520#comment-495 Even girls in a religious school do need to apply for an exemption. They don’t need to testify though. Personally I am very against girls lying to get out of service, and strongly believe the girls who don’t go into the army should do sherut leumi (as my daughters did). But this law does sound problematic on many levels. Who would decide exactly what it means to be religious, where the line is? And who would be chosen to judge these girls? How? Sounds highly invasive, and it’s a very subjective matter which is hard to quantify.

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