How To Permanently Impede the Killing of Forty Thousand Israeli Babies Yearly: Eliminate the Female Military Draft Altogether

Apr. 29, '21
By Binyomin Feinberg
17 Iyyar, 5781

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could help permanently put a real dent in the horrific killings of an estimated 40,000 Israeli preborn babies yearly - by abortionists? We can - by pushing for the total elimination of the female Military Draft.

If the Israeli government would comply with the Torah - on this one issue - by simply eradicating the military draft - for of all girls and women, regardless of religion or religiosity - that one policy shift would foment a sea change in Israeli society, with MANY positive results, including the reduction of extramarital relationships and resulting abortions. For a list of some of the benefits of this one policy change, see part two of our post of yesterday "Chareidiyos & IDF: Breakthrough or Breakdown:"

https://savehischildren.blogspot.com/2021/04/chareidi-women-idf-breakthrough-or.html,
http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2021/04/chareidiyos-idf-breakthrough-or.html.

We can help in this process by urging those in Israel, as well as others, to prioritize the exemption of all girls and women from the Israeli Army draft law, Including non-religious girls.

It's crucial to realize that this is one positive legislative change that, if enacted, will most likely remain permanent, regardless of future governments. Once the secular and traditional girls feel the benefits of freedom, they will almost certainly refuse to give that liberty away.

Background:.

For approximately seventy years, the Israeli Army has been drafting girls and young women, in blatant violation of both Torah Law and basic human decency. Leading Torah sages fought this evil edict decades ago, and were able to ensure that the law allowed religious girls an exemption.

Tragically, non-religious girls remained obligated to enlist. As a result, hundreds of thousands of girls and women have enlisted in the notoriously immoral, exploitive Army over the past seven decades. This one policy had decimated Israeli society in multiple ways.

For instance, drafting girls has fomented a culture of ramant immorality, in the Army as well as in the broader culture. It's one thing for a young woman to leave the Army at the end of her service; it's quite another for the immoral Army impact to leave her.

Tragically they generally bear their Army experience - and its corrosive moral impact - with them through life. In fact, the pro-Israel organization Chotam recently disseminated a recent report of an official Israeli government agency responsible for collecting statistics that over 80% of previously religious women who served in the Israeli military report a serious decline in their religious observance*.

This is no surprise, especially in light of other reports on the culture of immorality pervasive in the antireligious- dominated Israeli military

(e.g. see http://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/02/creep-state.html).

As a natural consequence of this government instigated depravity, abortion has become rampant, Including within immigrant communities of Jews (e.g. sefardic, Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews), in which it was perhaps almost unheard of for many hundreds, even thousands of years.

Another post of interest, relating to the Israeli military draft and abortion is https://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/07/every-refusenik-matters.html.

By advocating for such a policy shift in Israel, and highlighting the multitude of societal pitfalls the female military draft policy involves, perhaps we can alert some in the western world just how devastating the western Equality paradigm is. It's a lesson vitally needed now, especially as the lunacy of the false equality of unequals is ascendant, in the wake of Republican party sellouts in the U.S. Thus, we have everything to gain by pushing for the liberation of all Israeli women from the military draft.

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* see:

(links from "Chotam" regarding female draft issues, from newsletter of Adar 5781)

https://mobile.srugim.co.il/article/533147

https://www.0404.co.il/?p=726065
https://www.facebook.com/201562343535743/posts/1341675006191132/

https://chotam.org.il/2971 stats on religiosity of girls in idf
https://www.ynet.co.il/judaism/article/H1mSQmeZd

https://www.20il.co.il/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%93-%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9D-%D7%93%D7%95%D7%97-%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A3/

Why I’m Fighting For Morality In New Jersey

By Rabbi Noson Leiter

I was recently asked why I’m spending so much time fighting A4454 in New Jersey [which, we learned after submission of this article, was just scheduled for a vote on Monday, January 11, along with another dangerous Healthcare bill, S2545]. This bill (which recently was passed by the NJ Senate, almost on party lines) states:

“Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, each school district shall incorporate instruction on diversity and inclusion in an appropriate place in the curriculum of students in KINDERGARTEN through 12.”

It requires this instruction to (1) “highlight and promote diversity, including economic diversity, equity, inclusion, tolerance, and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, disabilities, and religious tolerance”;

(2) “examine the impact that unconscious bias and economic disparities have at both an individual level and on society as a whole”; and

(3) “encourage safe, welcoming, and inclusive environments for all students regardless of race or ethnicity, sexual and gender identities, mental and physical disabilities, and religious beliefs.”

Many people reflexively support "tolerance." However, tolerance of wickedness enables and proliferates wickedness. Moreover, teaching children to respect open practitioners of LGBT sins erodes their natural revulsion for these sins - and helps legitimize those transgressions.

Sodomy is actually a capital crime (Vayikra 20:13; Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 9:6), and called an "abomination" in the Torah (Vayikra 18:22, 20:13). The renowned sage known as the Maharal of Prague (1520-1609) adds an important insight, in regard to the the Talmudic statement (in tractate Chullin 92b) that one thing even the non-Jewish nations have been historically careful to avoid is writing marriage contracts between men. He observes that even amongst the abominations listed in Lev. chapter 18, sodomy is the only one branded an abomination in its individual enumeration.

This is reflective of sodomy's status as an abomination even among abominations. That may provide deeper insight into the exhortation of our Sages (in VaYikra Rabbah on Lev. 18:3) that formal recognition of same-sex unions triggered the annihilation of civilization via the Great Flood over four millennia ago.

However, some may wonder: Why spend so much time fighting this particular piece of legislation? There are several reasons. Here are some:

1. Among the proponents of this bill are several Jews, so we must ensure that the broader American community understands that Torah Jewry stands unequivocally against it and any other bill that seeks to indirectly legitimize sin under the rubric of teaching tolerance.

2. Frum Jews are responsible for the actions of their representatives, especially if they vote for them.

3. Unfortunately, several frum organizations publicize their involvement in public advocacy when it comes to seeking government assistance, but are generally nowhere to be seen in addressing spiritual threats. Such behavior conveys the impression that the average Orthodox Jew cares more about financial needs than spiritual threats. We must correct this misimpression – and chillul Hashem.

4. In addition to the Torah imperative to stand against this injustice even if it would NEVER affect a single Jewish child, there is an additional degree of urgency mandated here in light of all of the Jewish children who would be indoctrinated by such legislation. it goes without saying that most non-Orthodox Jews send their children to public school (in addition to all of the Orthodox children caught in the public school system).

5. If we stay silent now, “tolerance" curricula will eventually make their way to yeshivos. Already in England, the government harasses frum schools that don’t teach about homosexuality and related matters. There’s no reason to believe that state governments and the federal government in America won’t eventually follow suit. Indeed, two years ago, NY started to push - on the legal basis of legislation similar to A4454 passed in NY in 2010 - for such tolerance instruction in religious schools, in its controversial Educational Equivalency Guidelines, and then Regulations (instigating a very difficult battle, ongoing ever since).

6. Consider the new crop of voters that will emerge from such instruction. How will any candidate be able to support traditional morality and win an election if the next generation is taught that traditional morality is intolerant?

May we merit a speedy redemption in the merit of standing up for children who can't stand up for themselves.