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High-tech offers religious Jews a job path
Associated Press
Published: 31.01.13, 15:00
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1. 45% of haredi males holding jobs ...
MAP ,   Bnei Brak   (01.31.13)
Does that mean that 45% of haredi males served in the army? Don't need a degree in maths or computer science to answer that one.
2. I wish them all the best
Ezra ,   San Diego   (01.31.13)
May Hashem bless the work of their hands always.
3. "10,000 haredim work in high-tech, 75% of them women"
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (01.31.13)
The unprecedented suggestion that WOMEN should be the family bread-winner while the men engage in full-time Torah and Talmud study means that haredi women have access to the "secular" studies growing up that give them a leg up when it comes to serious high-tech studies. Yair Lapid, speaking before a hared college audience recently, noted the different success rates at the Technion where students with limited education backgrounds go through the Pre-University Center to prepare them for the Technion's rigorous studies. Roughly HALF the haredi men, many of whom never studied math, English, computer science, physics, etc., drop out. But the failure rate for haredi women who did have that secular background was closer to 7%! Clearly close study of just Torah and Gemara is not sufficient.
4. why doyou need to be in army to work?
dov ,   somwhere, ynm ek   (01.31.13)
5. fact: there are lots of shades of...
Bluegrass Picker ,   Afula   (01.31.13)
of "high tech". If the frum-nikkim are willing to do programming scut-work at Manila wages, they can keep all those jobs. Otherwise they'll go to Manila.
6. When I was a kid, my parents send me to a religious school
Al   (02.01.13)
where I was taught the ancient texts and so on and so forth. After finishing HS I went to Mcgill and completed a professional degree. Larning Rashi and Gemora didnt get me thru Mcgill. That I can garantee you. The ultra orthoquack men are depending on their wives to support them and even feed them. They are not men..They are useless. The time will come that these religious women will throw these petz to the curb. It will come sooner than later. Mark my words. No women wants to siupport a putz.
7. "Someone who finished yeshiva and studied Talmud and Gemara,
Ze'ev ,   USA   (02.03.13)
"Someone who finished yeshiva and studied Talmud and Gemara, his brain is built for high-tech," and yet, they say that 75% of the Haredi employed in High-Tech are women... I might be incorrect, but I thought Haredi women where not taught Talmud and Gemara? I might be wrong
8. 6 Al And still these women...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (02.04.13)
chose Haredi men above secular men. So,for a man it is worth to become Orthodox ,if only to have the opportunity to marry an "Eshet Hail". A bon entendeur ,salut.
9. 7 Ze'ev The Yeshiva student are...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (02.04.13)
without doubt , superior than women, in High- Tech.
10. 3 They catch up very quickly .
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (02.04.13)
those who persist .
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