"Chareidim must serve in the IDF"

Maybe yes, maybe no. Obviously, there are arguments on both sides (if you don't think there are arguments on both sides, maybe you should learn to see beyond your "side"). However, the pesukim used as "proof" for this assertion were laughable. The story in the parasha concerns those shevatim who were not going to enter Eretz Yisrael. They offered to not only fight for the land, but in fact to lead the forces in battle. Somehow, this was being used as "proof" that chareidim should go into the Army. Imagine: a rabbi speaking from a pulpit in Roslyn Heights, using, as proof that chareidim in Eretz Yisrael should go into the IDF, the story in the Torah that those who were going to live in chutz la'aretz would fight first! Ridiculous! If the story demonstrates anything, it is that Rabbi Block should be the first to volunteer for the IDF, not sit back in his comfy home in Roslyn and dictate which Israelis should be fighting. Maybe it's time for him, in fact, to go.

What's the definition of an American Zionist? Someone who's willing to fight for Israel--down to the last Israeli!