This spring and summer, Israel has seen dramatic
confrontations among Jews, between the ultra-Orthodox haredi population
and others, over issues such as the exemption from military service for
this religious community and over women’s rights. On Monday, October 28, veteran foreign correspondent Lawrence Malkin will discuss his new book, The War Within, at 1:30 p.m.
at the Central Queens YM & YWHA.
Co-authors Yuval Elizur & Lawrence Malkin have taken a hard look at the growing conflict between Israel’s secular to modern Orthodox citizens, on the one hand - and its growing community of ultra-Orthodox, on the other. With roughly ten percent of Israel’s population, the high birth rate of the ultra-Orthodox has increased their numbers so that they now form a separate society within Israel, whose leaders can make and unmake governments.
The Central Queens Y is located at 67-09 108 Street in Forest Hills. Sherri Fink’s talk is open to the public, with a $7 donation suggested.
Last spring mass protests by Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community drew thousands of men opposed to eliminating the long-standing exemption of the ultra-Orthodox from military service. In recent years, a growing movement within Israel has protested the segregation of - and other restrictions on - women within the ultra-Orthodox community. Elizur and Malkin looked at these controversial issues and others such as welfare dependency, and private education among this rapidly growing segment of the religious population.
Lawrence Malkin is an award-winning
journalist, formerly foreign correspondent for Time magazine and The
Associated Press. Co-author Yuval Elizur is a sixth generation
Israeli, former deputy editor for Israel’s largest daily newspaper,
Ma’ariv, and Jerusalem correspondent for The Washington Post and The
Boston Globe.
More information about this event is available at 718 268-5011, ext. 151, or online at www.cqy.org or at (718) 268-5011 ext. 151, or pkurtz@cqy.org.
Co-authors Yuval Elizur & Lawrence Malkin have taken a hard look at the growing conflict between Israel’s secular to modern Orthodox citizens, on the one hand - and its growing community of ultra-Orthodox, on the other. With roughly ten percent of Israel’s population, the high birth rate of the ultra-Orthodox has increased their numbers so that they now form a separate society within Israel, whose leaders can make and unmake governments.
The Central Queens Y is located at 67-09 108 Street in Forest Hills. Sherri Fink’s talk is open to the public, with a $7 donation suggested.
Last spring mass protests by Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community drew thousands of men opposed to eliminating the long-standing exemption of the ultra-Orthodox from military service. In recent years, a growing movement within Israel has protested the segregation of - and other restrictions on - women within the ultra-Orthodox community. Elizur and Malkin looked at these controversial issues and others such as welfare dependency, and private education among this rapidly growing segment of the religious population.
More information about this event is available at 718 268-5011, ext. 151, or online at www.cqy.org or at (718) 268-5011 ext. 151, or pkurtz@cqy.org.
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