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Haredi: How a Word Became a Tribe
The word "Haredi" comes from the Hebrew root for trembling — awe before the divine, drawn from Isaiah. Its common English translation, "ultra-Orthodox," carries a very different charge. This episode traces how a descriptor became an identity, why the label stuck, and how the community it names was deliberately built with state funding within living memory — from Rabbi Shach's 1977 coalition deal to Shas and the Mizrahi expansion. With over a million Haredim in Israel today and one of the highest growth rates in the developed world, the vocabulary debate is inseparable from the demographic and…
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