{"id":4698,"date":"2013-12-17T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T11:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2013-12-17T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T11:04:49","slug":"holy-space-11-the-city-on-a-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2013\/12\/holy-space-11-the-city-on-a-hill.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy Space 11: The City on a Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re just tuning in, we’re finishing up an Advent series of meditations on “holy space” with the help of travel photojournalist Katie Archibald-Woodward on assignment in The Holy Land. The series, which has been running Tuesdays and Thursdays, concludes this Thursday. Here is Katie:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Some Surprising Facts about Jerusalem:<\/p>\n

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Jerusalem is actually the second poorest city in Israel.\u00a0 <\/span>This is due to the fact that almost 1\/3 of the city is Orthodox Jewish, 75% of which one might call “ultra Orthodox” (known as \u201cHaredim\u201d) meaning they adhere to a traditional form of Jewish law and reject modern secular culture, and many do not work for pay.\u00a0 <\/span>Rather, they attend Yeshiva, a school where they study ancient texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah, as a full time occupation.\u00a0 <\/span>They also are exempt from the army, which is a bit of a scandal because they are reaping the benefits of the socialist country’s resources without putting back into it in a quantitatively measurable way, including the payment of taxes.\u00a0 <\/span>This is one of the major current conflicts between the Orthodox Jews and secular Jews.<\/p>\n

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