Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

The same naive Modern Orthodox rabbis who tell you to move to Israel tell you to become an organ donor. Danella Gallegos, a 38-year-old woman from New Mexico, was declared to be in an irreversible coma, and her family agreed to donate her organs, trusting the medical diagnosis. However, as preparations were underway for the extraction surgery at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, one of her relatives noticed something unsettling: tears streaming down her face. Dismissed as mere reflexes, no one anticipated what would happen next. On the day of the procedure, one of her sisters observed movements, and a doctor asked Gallegos to blink if she could hear him—and she did. Despite this, organ donation coordinators pressed to proceed, even suggesting administering morphine to reduce her motor activity. Fortunately, the medical team refused to go forward and halted everything. Danella was not only conscious but, days later, managed to recover completely. Search Assist Modern Orthodox Judais...

 I'm at the airport that was named for an atheist in the country whose leaders like to call "the Jewish State." However, I see no evidence of that here. I have passed hundreds of people. I saw three yarmulkas and not a single woman who appeared to be religious in any way. The yarmulkas were on guys would not appear religious at all if you took the yarmulkas off of them. And it took a while before I saw them. I looked and looked. The stores and restaurants are like those of any airport. The airport displays feature a little local artwork, nothing about religious Judaism. To my mind, the ubiquitous flags don't count as that but rather as a display of secular nationalism. When I pulled off my cap for the passport checker woman I received the frown that secular Jews in Israel give when they see a religious person. It was the same at the security checkpoint. When I put on my tallis and tefillin to daven Schacharis at my gate, I felt like I would have felt in Idaho or Munic...

   See the speed bump? When I drive from the broken down parking lot in my tiny little apartment to the crowded business district that lacks parking I drive over a dozen speed bumps. It's a 1 KM trip. Seems like every 25 feet is a speed bump. They shake the car. And because the drivers behind tailgate you wind up going fast then breaking, fast then breaking. It's the typical Israel experience---unpleasant. I was in Texas recently. There were no speed bumps. People drive normally on their own. They don't need to be slowed down by intentionally placed blockages on the road. 

 — JAMES RODRÍGUEZ: "When I arrived in Qatar, they paid me incredible sums of money, but my private life turned into a real nightmare. The culture was so different that I couldn't adapt. For example, there everyone ate with their hands. They’d tell me: 'Come on, you eat with your hand too.' I refused because in the culture I grew up in, that didn’t exist. I’d go to shower and there it was forbidden for everyone to bathe completely naked; you had to wear something. That made me really nervous. I had millions of dollars, beneath me were the most luxurious cars, but at home I’d sit alone and cry. Fame and money seem great from the outside, but when they leave you completely alone in a place where you don’t belong at all, that money is absolutely worthless." https://x.com/ElGolGarracol/status/2110398581995643098/photo/1

A leading candidate for Prime Minister of Israel sounds a lot like you know who. "Listen, this is national suicide in slow motion.  We are simply committing suicide and the next term is our last window of opportunity to save the State of Israel. This is it. Now or never. Because if we don't dismantle the anti-Zionist Haredi state we will lose the Zionist state."  Listen for yourself: Incredible that he thinks the biggest problem Israel faces is Haredim, not economic woes, not crime, not immorality, not health, not the environment, not the budget, not security concerns, not corruption. No, Haredim.  At least he's admitting that the goal of military conscription is to destroy Haredi life.  Bennett is not fringe. He's in second place among the opposition candidates. Of course, the front runner among the opposition is a military man because militarism is the religion of the state of israel. Gadi Eisenkot (Yashar!) — The breakout story. A former IDF chief of staff and...

  Is that where you want to bring your children?

 If you are Yeshivish or Chassidish do you want to come to a country where leading candidates for office base their entire platform on undermining Charedi life? If they are leading candidates that means they have popular support. That means the country is against you. That doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. And it's been like this for decades. So how can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yisrael Reismann of Torah v'daas say that the future is in Israel? How can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yitzchok Berkowitz of Aish tell Yeshivish people that they have no excuse for not moving to Israel since there are Anglo communities. (It's a stretch to call them that by the way.) How can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yitzchok Breitowitz of Ohr Somayach tell Jews to move to Israel, that they need a good excuse not to move when they majority of the country is literally out to get them. The answer is that they are not really Yeshivish. They have become Zionists. But more tha...