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Haredim launch 'Shabbat war' on Jerusalem café
Roi Yanovsky
Published: 02.02.14, 18:24
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1. The Jewliban
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (02.02.14)
These clowns (Haredi) give religion a bad name. Who the "F" are they to dictate how people live there lives.
2. Not this again
Scarborough1414 ,   Scarborough, ON, CA   (02.02.14)
If a secular protested in front of a Hareidi establishment for some reason; the police would arrest him "chik-chak" (toute de suite). Now that Hareidim are protesting in front of a secular restaurant, the police are nowhere to be found. The frummies win all the arguments. Be lucky I'm not there; you wouldn't like what I'd do.
3. Keep singing and playing music
Avi   (02.02.14)
Let the power of love and friendship send them away :DDD
4. Shabbos/Shabbat is wonderful!
Yechiel   (02.02.14)
5. GUYS I HAVE GOT IT
Aaron ,   Israel   (02.02.14)
We need to protest all of the stores that are closed on shabbat.
6. I know,it is not the best way to get...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM.   (02.02.14)
acquainted with each other. but sometimes you can have so a stunning conversation, Girls should refrain from singing,
7. Don't fight Hashem!
Yechiel   (02.02.14)
He loves you!
8. Kol Ha Kavod!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Yonatan ,   Jerusalem   (02.02.14)
Now go do the same with the bigger one ok King George Street.
9. You should thank haredim
Chaim ,   Israel   (02.02.14)
the only ones protecting the city from secular G-dless people. If not for haredim, Jerusalem would already be in the hands of the Arabs.
10. 6 , don't impose your lifestyle on us !
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (02.02.14)
11. ORA
Mordechai ,   Beit Shemesh   (02.02.14)
What business is of yours if the girls want to sing? As usual spouting a disillusioned and superstitious twaddle.obviously you don't seem to realize we live in the 21st century not the 17th! just remember the Earth is one planet of one star in a galaxy of 100 billion stars and there are over 100 billion galaxies, Any importance you give your self is absurd. if the Earth was hit by an asteroid tomorrow and human life extinguished no other planet or solar system would notice, they are too far away, the nearest solar system to ours is 300 million light years away!. now show me how you know better than others how we should live, with a QED proof!
12. It's like Jewish Taliban, modernize them
Slywolf ,   Irvine, CA   (02.02.14)
Except that Jews are too much of a coward to do anything but protest and spit on little girls. The Taliban are Muslims- they have the guts to be able to remove people heads. Maximum Jew can do is spit and maybe throw a rock. Secular Jews, we must modernize these Datiim.
13. It's all in the way how you do it...
robert ,   Antwerpen (2018)   (02.02.14)
Were haredim taking part as a majority in the country's defense. Were the haredim as a whole more open with those who are not like them, engaging in friendly discussions, inviting each other and so on, people would be more positive than with demonstrations.
14. Girls should sing everytime they want!
Zeev   (02.02.14)
15. It is useless
Moshe ,   Israel   (02.02.14)
The rule of the thumb has shown that the best convincing method to disperse these thugs of darkness is by force.
16. How unfair poor people forced to work on Shabbat
Mordechai   (02.03.14)
How sad poor people aren't even given one day of rest a week and are forced to work on Shabbat so rich white people can have a servants at their beck an call at the restaurant. Can't the silver spoon rich take care of their food one day a week instead of demanding the working class be there to serve them. Close this restaurant and let the working class have one day a week home with their families.
17. 10 &11 I was just warning that
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (02.02.14)
If the girls would sing the Haredim might flee and thus both societies would miss the opportunity to learn to understand each other . I had not in mind to impose you anything.
18. Somehow i dont think this is "holy" for shabbat no?
shosh ,   Jerusalem   (02.03.14)
what hypocrites! Shabbat is a peaceful day for rest and thanking g-d for our blessings, not a day to protest. how disgusting. cannot understand why they cannot live and let live... Shame on them. As someone who does not keep shabbat, i will be sure to frequent Cafe Bezalel and be sure to encourage others to do so as well. Very important to keep the pluralism in this city or it will become another parasite haven like others cities in this country have become.
19. to 16
iselin ,   oslo   (02.03.14)
Maybe those who work on the Sabbath like it that way. They get a day off when society is functioning, buses are running and shops are open. Those who work on Saturday do not have a longer work week than anyone else (except maybe those reading Torah instead of working at a real job). They get far more useful time off than the poor suckers who work a "regular" week with Saturday free and no possibility of doing any practical things.
20. to #16 not really, people who work on shabat
lili   (02.03.14)
make more money than in the week day. they do that by choice and they are all from middle class, some students in collage, why are you jealous? go to work than.
21. Fools and morons
Duh   (02.03.14)
Go ahead and let greed command you. Be a servant. You don't want a day of rest? Fine. Let business owners and corporations govern you. Go ahead and serve money and see how much mercy it has on you. LET US SEE HOW MUCH REST YOU GET FROM YOUR CORPORATE MASTERS . You will work seven days. You will work before the sun rises. You will work after the sun sets. You will work continually until you wither and die, and watch the same happen to your children. And all of your work will fill the pockets of the masters you have chosen. Understand this you FOOLS: The rich and evil are rich because they are evil. You will serve them day and night. You will have no rest on any day. El provided a day of rest for you, but you prefer to give your backs to evil owners. Let business and money be your master. Enjoy your whips.
22. Fantastic advertising gimmick-wish I could go next Saturday!
miki ,   tampa   (02.03.14)
Thousands more waiting to be served!
23. so demonstrating on rest day is also breaking
lili   (02.03.14)
god's law, this nut cases are not jewish.
24. to #7 we Secular don't dear, Haredim do by making fake rules
lili   (02.03.14)
there is no law in the bible that prohibid sitting in Cafe and enjoing ourselves. on the other hand I heard some Charedim gossip on shabat cause you got nothing better to do.
25. Open all the businesses on Shabbat to show them.
Michael ,   California, USA   (02.03.14)
I have been boycotting Jerusalem for a few years now and will not go there when coming to Israel until city officials implement democracy in that city. But until the officials wake up, I expect concerned business owners to take action themselves, like the customers in that restaurant, in opposition to Haredi coercion. The oppression by Haredim must end. The city officials in Jerusalem need to understand what the majority wants in the city and what is the law in the country. The Haredim must learn to coexist with every Israeli citizen and equality under the law must reign there.
26. Ora , 17 . Not trying to impose ????
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (02.03.14)
Sane Israelis can't discuss with THOSE extremist charedim
27. Chaim , 9 . Without the seculars
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (02.03.14)
there would not be a reunited Yeroushalaim , nor a State of Israel . They protect ? in the same way they "protected" our SIX million brethren who were murdered ?
28. 16 , Mordechai
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (02.03.14)
I will add to what Iselin wrote : Those who work on Shabbat receive a better salary too I suppose . It's so in all developed countries , those who work on a rest day get a better pay .
29. When will they just learn
g.p. ,   tel aviv   (02.03.14)
to get on with their praying and leave others to do what THEY like doing? Ora may refrain from singing if she wishes, but has NO right instructing others.
30. 17 - Ora again
g.p. ,   Tel Aviv   (02.03.14)
If the Haredim promise to flee may I suggest lots of women get out there and sing, sing, sing, and problem resolved. And if THIS post isn't published, I wanna know why, given every anti-Semite on the planet spewing their venom freely.
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