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The Million Man Prayer Rally

JL;DR SUMMARY A large-scale prayer rally in Jerusalem has gathered hundreds of thousands of Charedi Jews resisting the Israeli military draft. 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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Israeli SocietyYeshivaCharedi CommunityTorah StudyMilitary ServiceHesder YeshivaCommunity LeadershipReligious ExemptionIdf DraftJerusalem Rally

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Jerusalem, Israel
"Right now, they are in the middle of that million-man prayer rally. Hundreds of thousands of them have been gathering in Jerusalem for an all-day prayer session, closing off all access to and from the city."

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