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"We Shall Islamize, And Not Enlist!"

JL;DR SUMMARY In a satirical article, Natan Slifkin revisits his past April Fool's joke about charedim converting to Islam as a method to avoid conscription into the Israeli Defense Forces. 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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IdfConversionIslamCharediIsraeli ArabsConscriptionSatireFundingNatan SlifkinApril Fools

Places mentioned

Bnei Brak, Central District, Israel
"Yaakov Grodko is one of the hosts at Kol Berama, a popular charedi radio station based in Bnei Brak."

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