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Better Dead Than Drafted?

JL;DR SUMMARY Natan Slifkin critiques the extreme views expressed in an interview with the father of Yosef Rosenthal, a young charedi who died in a riot against military enlistment. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Charedi CommunityIdfReligious IdentityMilitary ServiceExtremismParental LovePeleg FactionViolent ProtestsYosef RosenthalMartyr Mentality

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"This echoed a declaration often pronounced by the Peleg faction of charedim, [based in Jerusalem]."

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