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A Mandatory Listen - Nechumi Yaffe: An insider's dire prognosis for the Haredi world - and its cure
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Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and the Jewish people. For this fourth episode in the new series, we speak with Prof. Nechumi Yaffe, an ultra-Orthodox woman running for Knesset for the Charedi Public Party ( HaTzibur HaCharedi ). A faculty member at Tel Aviv University since 2019, Yaffe is currently a tenured senior lecturer at the School of Public Policy and co-director of the Haredi Research Group at UCLA. Among other fields of interest, Yaffe delves into the issues of poverty and identity in Haredi society. We hear how the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught on southern…