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Religious Prejudice Alive and Well in Israel, Unfortunately

Filed under: Anti-Haredi Prejudice, Anti-Religious Prejudice, Israel

Well, well, well.

As if anyone was surprised. A new study, commissioned by the religious-secular coexistence organization Tzav Piyus which seeks to increase religious-secular dialogue in Israel, just released the results of a new study today to Israeli daily Ma'ariv's NRG.co.il (link is in Hebrew). The study found, among other things:

  • 90% of Charedi people would buy a car from a secular or traditional person, 42% of secular people responded that they would not buy a car from a Charedi person;

  • 62.3% of Charedi people would live in a place which was majority secular; 57.7% of secular people said they "would not" do the converse;

  • 50.2% of secular respondents said that the statement "Charedim are oppressing the country" was true; when asked a similar extreme question, "Are secular Jews only half-Jews?" only 6.8% of Charedim said it was true (granted, this is a biased question)

The article implies it is time for forgiveness. I think it is time for dialogue. And, above all things, ahavat Yisra'el.

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