Who’s Afraid Of Ruth Calderon?

Existential Threat

Sigal Samuel on why ultra-Orthodox Israelis are calling Ruth Calderon, a Talmud scholar and new Member of Knesset, "the real existential threat."

Published Feb. 14 2013 5:00PM EST

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, that’s who.This headline, which appeared yesterday in Kikar HaShabbat—a major haredi news outlet—says it all: “This is the real existential threat: Ruth Calderon studying Talmud.”

To be clear: According to Kikar HaShabbat, the direst threat facing ultra-Orthodox Israelis is not the possibility that the state will stop subsidizing their...

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Who’s Afraid Of Ruth Calderon?

Sigal Samuel on why ultra-Orthodox Israelis are calling Ruth Calderon, a Talmud scholar and new Member of Knesset, "the real existential threat."

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Sigal Samuel