I almost was not going to write another post about the charedi army refusal this week, because I am just so sick of it all and it feels like flogging a dead horse. But the insanity is so broad and multilayered, I feel an obligation.

Where to begin?

There’s the editor of Israel’s Yated Ne’eman, the representative of Daas Torah, who claims that the IDF tanks and planes only operate thanks to the tens of thousands of charedim in yeshiva. Of course, it begs the question of how Israel won in 1948 and 1...