Haredim Object To IDF Testicle Exams As “Not In Accord With Haredi Lifestyle”

It turns out that haredim are also objecting to something more than the gender of the doctors and nurses conduction the exams – they're are objecting to the medical exams themselves, because part of each exam involves examination of recruits' testicles (a normal screening for hernias that is also done to check for testicular cancer).

Haredim Object To IDF Testicle Exams As “Not In Accord With Haredi Lifestyle”
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

As I reported last week, one of the two major 'mainstream' haredi factions are using IDF draft physicals as club in the war for control over the haredi community.

The more conservative Jerusalem faction, led by Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, ordered haredi yeshiva students not to answer their draft notices and report for their initial draft evaluations, because the IDF was, supposedly, "not acting in accordance with haredi lifestyle" during the medical examination each new recruit has to undergo.

Initial reports said the reason for Auerbach's unprecedented edict was that women doctors and nurses participated in the exams.

However, it turns out that haredim are also objecting to something more than the gender of the doctors and nurses – Auerbach and his faction are objecting to the medical exams themselves, because part of each exam involves examination of recruits' testicles (a normal screening for hernias that is also done to check for testicular cancer).

This explains in part why the more 'moderate' Bnei Brak haredi faction led by haredi leader Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, reacted to Auerbach's edict by issuing their own edict ordering drafted haredim to report for their initial evaluations at the IDF recruitment centers, something it would have had great difficulty doing if it was common for women doctors and nurses were examining male haredi yeshiva students.

But Shteinman's faction also ordered yeshiva students not to sign any forms the IDF gives them. It's Va'ad Hayeshivos, the umbrella organization of haredi yeshivas, has developed its own forms that declare that  no matter what the IDF does, haredi yeshiva students will never stop studying full time, and that they refuse to serve in the IDF because haredi yeshiva students have always been exempted from military service.

Auerbach's faction also apparently objected to psycho-technical exams given haredi recruits.

MK Moshe Gafni of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism political party complained that theexam and the tests given haredi recuits were "real attempts at religious conversion."

Gafni and Deputy Health Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, also a UTJ member, met Wednesday with senior officers of the IDF's human resources division. Initial reports said the officers pledged that the yeshiva students would not be examined by females

[Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.]

Comments

[mimi]

My friend was in the military and one of his testicles became hard as a rock. he was only 20 but had to lose a testicle.

Good news was he went on to outlive two wives and had three children with that one ball. These people are crazy. Very, VERY important for young men to check their testicles-that is the age group for testicle cancer.

[seymour]

as they telling us that hedeim and their leaders never ever had a proper physical

that would be amazing or they are lying

[netflix]

are these testicle exams ending with happy endings or something?

[MM]

I suppose they also object to screening for prostate cancer....

[Expatriate Owl]

Does the IDF have the beytzim to stand up to those charedim who complain about the physical exams?

[Mike]

each exam involves examination of recruits' testicles

I can't imagine why a haredi male would object to having his testicles examined by an IDF female examiner.

[westernjew]

So do not do the exam. It will only increase the complications if there is an illness or a hernia but of course the charedi can argue that it is more important to serve than to be screened for a condition. I am not an insider but I think from my inside past that this is acceptable.

[SkepticalYid]

I suppose they also object to screening for prostate cancer....

Posted by: MM | December 01, 2012 at 10:30 PM

No, their rabbis start performing prostate exams when they're in yeshiva. The catch is, both hands are on the yingerman's shoulders.

[FM Fan]

The biggest news to me is that they have testicles.

[David]

They proudly display their testicles every day in the mikvah (and twice on Friday). Why can't they present them for a legitimate inspection by a male medical doctor? Also, testicular cancer is on the rise for young men and others. How would a check for that harm them, especially as the Charedim are so uneducated they would not even know about the issue?

[Yochanan Lavie]

Apologies to AC/DC (Big Balls):

Well I'm ever black hat frum society
G-d's gift to charedi sobriety
And I always learn in beit midrash
The shiur is never small
The IDF doctors say I've got
The biggest balls of all

Chorus:
I've got big balls
I've got big balls
They're such big balls
And they're kosher big balls
And he's got big balls
And they're glatt big balls
Frummies got the biggest balls of them all

And my balls are always schuckling
And my shteibel's always full
And everybody prays and prays again
If your name is on the shadchan's list
No yichus is any higher
Every rabbi says I've got
Great balls of fire

Chorus

Some balls are held for tsedekah
And some in Polish dress
But when they're held for simchas
They're the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing
More and more to the right
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every Friday night

Chorus

Oy, we've got big balls
We've got big balls
We've got big balls/And I'm just itching to tell you about them
Kosher big balls/Oy, we had such a mechayah!
He's got big balls/gefilte fish and chrayn
They're glatt big balls/tchulent
But we've got the biggest balls of them all/kugel

Oy, Tam Tam crackers
Tam Tam, crackers (etc. to fade out).

[Sarek]

("Great Balls of Fire", Jerry Lee Lewis)

You know I’m frum but you give me exam.
Next you’ll say that I have to eat ham.
I’m still a Jew.
And I have two
Precious baitzot, Great balls of fire!

I can’t let women check me out down there.
All the tzitzis that I have to wear.
No hernia,
It’s a mitzvah.
Precious baitzot, Great balls of fire!

Don’t touch me lady, won’t feel good
Stay away, please
Just stay away from my manhood.
It’s fine, divine.
My manhood is a shrine, shrine, shrine, shrine.

Only men can do a physical exam.
Just because I’m a son of Abraham.
Go away lady, you drive me crazy.
Precious baitzot, Great balls of fire!

[SkepticalYid]

yochanan and sarek, you both did a great job! wonderful parodies!!!

[SkepticalYid]

Oy Oy Oy ,Goy
Oy Oy Oy Goy
Oy Oy Oy Goy

I want him to hold em like they do in Tel Aviv
Roll them let em hit me raise it ,baby fondle them,I love it
Ill turn my head, bear down and give a little cough
And after he's been hooked ,I'll push out a cholent fart.

Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my, can't read my
No he won't let me poke his face
(He can't read my Pashkevelim)
Can't read my, can't read my
(He can't read my Pashkeveilim)

P-p-p-poke his face, p-p-poke his face
(Oy Oy Oy Goy)
P-p-p-poke his face, p-p-poke his face
(Oy Oy Oy Goy)

I want him to roll them, a hard pair they will be
A little beitzim grab is fun when you're with me, I love it
Charedi riots ain't the same without no rocks
And boychik when it's war if it's not rough it isn't fun, fun

Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

(Chorus)

[Gefilte Fish]

Such talent! Mamesh like the Levi'im in Bais Hamikdosh!

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, Gefilte, SY. BTW: I'm a Levi.