יום שלישי, כ״ח אב תשפ״וTuesday, August 11, 2026
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Jordanian police confiscated tefillin, talitot, kipot, and prayer books, and even forbade prayer in their hotel rooms.
Three years ago the rabbi immigrated to Israel, making his home in Jerusalem.
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The state of mind of a husband who signed the Tzohar prenuptial agreement may be affected by the financial consequences to the point where his get may not be given in a purely voluntary manner.
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According to Diardio de Chiapas, Helbrans' group of about 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families entered Chiapas three weeks ago legally from Guatemala, after having been expelled.
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'Most of the Jews in the United States, even those who come to Temple once in fifty years, or those that don’t come at all, are not Reform, and the Reform movement does not represent them.'
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Deri was furious at Netanyahu's request, and told the PM, while walking out of the room: "I know what you're doing to me and I will not let you do it."
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Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
"When the only contact people have with the Orthodox Jewish world is negative and aggressive, it reflects badly on all of us," a hareidi-religious businesswoman said.
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The deadline for government's response to the high court's order is next Sunday.
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'The absence of children – particularly children being raised in the Jewish religion – represents yet one more missing incentive to Jewish communal engagement.'
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Also on Saturday night, a contingency of 5,000 police and IDF will be manning all the traffic arteries leading to Miron, in perimeter security circuits and at the compound itself.
Families always face the dilemma of planning fun and appropriate activities during intermediate days of Passover.
A Jewish father teaches his daughter about the Torah commandment to burn all remaining bits of bread, etc. before the start of Passover.
"We are committed to doing everything in our power to strengthen the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria," said Rabbi Ben Dahan.
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Classes will open in B'nei B'rak and Jerusalem on June 1 for Haredim who would later be integrated into the national cyber attack response center.
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Arguing that respect and sensitivity protect public health better than a restrictive policy, the mayor waived the requirement that parents sign a consent form showing understand the risks involved in Metzitzah B'peh.
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Agudath Israel of America endorsed President Trump's choice for Education Secretary, and urged its members to lobby the Senate in favor of her confirmation.
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IKEA said its Israeli franchise had tried to reach a consumer group and made an error.
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The growth rate would have been even higher were it not for the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria.
The IDF hopes to initially enlist 15-20 Chareidim for the unit.
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The first item in Metzger's original indictment (before the plea bargain) accused him of selling conversion certificates in exchange for bribes.
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'This is a warning sign and all of the involved entities should take action – here and now, before a disaster will occur and it will cost us in blood.'
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The PM noted that he got two-thirds of the Congress to support him, which 'I can't get in our country.'
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The new Trump Administration favors Jews not only in Judea and Samaria, but in the States as well. Our recommendation: if you are the parent of a Jewish school student – lay off those protest rallies…
NYC Council member Chaim Deutsch sent a letter to President Obama asking for last-minute clemency for Sholom Rubashkin before he leaves office.
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From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.
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In the Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe's opinion, a draconian, sweeping prohibition on electronic communications creates a situation where many break the law in secret and are exposed to dangerous content.
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According to Chabad, the way to "bring the messiah" is by spreading Hasidic teaching, so that once every land has in it Jews capable of Hasidic meditation and action, redemption must come next.
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The leader of the Shuvu Banim (Return boys) movement, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, confessed to indecent assault and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, part of which he has already served since his arrest.
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If you had to find the one Hasidic Rebbe that would attract President Elect Donald Trump's attention, it would have to be Reb Israel Friedman of Ruzhin.
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Using the great, eye opening Pew study of 2013, Cohen points out that the signs of Jewish life in intermarried Jewish families are fast diminishing.
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Transport Ministry officials threatened that "if it turns out Gafni is operating out of political considerations we will view it seriously and act accordingly."
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This is the story of how a handful of young Hassidim set out to build a global communications network in the era before Periscope, Skype, VoIP, or even satellite or Cable TV.
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His DNA was found on the heel of the victim’s sneaker, which was found on the roof of a nearby building.
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The minors, whose parents were not invited to the court deliberation, were detained at 3 AM and brought to court after 2 PM the next day, all in violation of Israel's Youth Law.
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The fact that the first two of these organizations is completely Orthodox, while the third varies from one campus to another has irked many, in Israel and abroad.
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Between February and March of 2012 the two "Facebook victims" wired millions of dollars to an account set up by Weinstein and a co-conspirator.
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It should be noted that those Haredi schools that rejected the government-imposed of a Core Curriculum did so not necessarily because they object to teaching their students many of the subjects on the list.
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Viewing this plotting session of a murder, one is reminded of similar scenes involving mobsters and Hamas terrorists, except the godfather is in a talit and the gangsters wear shtreimlach.
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No one is allowed to stand where the parade is going, the sidewalks will be kept deserted by heavy police guard.
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Access to the video records is restricted to certified rabbis, who may only watch the material in groups of three, and must verify their identities using their fingerprints.
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"I feel humiliated, they were actually saying they're not recognizing my being Jewish. I love Rabbi Lookstein, he is my rabbi, he brought me into the Jewish world."
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Orthodox authorities are concerned not only about the proper execution of the halakhic dipping, but also about the push to permit unmarried women to dip, which the rabbis view as an invitation to lechery.
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Last week, a Knesset committee debated a bill proposed by two ultra-Orthodox coalition partners determining that use of public mikvahs will be conducted strictly according to halakha.
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Using the US' enormous economic clout, FATCA bullies the world's financial institutions into reporting on their American clients to Uncle Sam.
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The signatories at the bottom of a letter titled "An important Message to the Community" include Rabbis David and Reuven Feinstein, the sons and spiritual heirs of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
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Glick also said "there should be clear instructions as to how to conduct a wedding ceremony, and just as you don't have to have a rabbi at a circumcision, under the chupah you don't need a rabbi either."
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"I'm not ashamed of what I do, should I apologize for representing Judaism in the IDF?"
Rabbi Dr. Elad Dukov of Haifa's Technion Institute of Technology was arrested Monday at the Temple Mount.
A group of parents, former teachers and yeshiva alumni demand to know the progress of an investigation into NYC yeshivas.
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Special kosher for Passover cell phones may be purchase now at a "subsidized cost" of 99 shekels $26.22.
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Rabbi Kanievsky may be the most "Zionist" of the great Haredi rabbis.
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Members of the British Humanist Association, on the other hand, were beside themselves with their biased attack.
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What appears to be a bill driven by the urgent need to block Reform expansion in Israel may really be a land grab on the part of the Haredim.
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"Better to give up the Yiddish and let everyone understand the material, rather than maintain the tradition and lose the students' attention."
Israeli Opp. Leader Herzog acknowledged that Israel is in the midst of the Third Intifada.
Arab terrorists have again burned sacred items belonging to the Jews of Karmei Tzur in Judea.
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The event is part of a long list of operational success stories of the ultra-Orthodox battalion which is part of the Kfir Brigade.
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How dare you destroy another child’s life because of your opinion about them? How dare you face God in prayer when you’ve snuffed out a Jewish soul?
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As of Monday morning, JNi.media has learned that the attempt to change the rules of selecting permanent rabbinic judges has been rescinded, due mostly to the stern response of the Justice Minister.
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According to sources in the Hebron community, the Skverer visit is part of a general increase in visits and tourism in the city and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
A popular Hasidic hipster musical band based out of New York, known as “Zusha,” performed in Jerusalem’s Yellow Submarine music center this weekend.
The Taub Center noted a link between being religious and being satisfied with aspects of living, but that it does not necessarily apply to non-Jews. Hareidim live longer
Leader of a group behind the lawsuit says the political pressure forces the government to ignore basic subjects such as math, English and computers.
Netanyahu is ready to expand the government with Lapid's Yesh Atid Party, but the rabbis nixed the idea. "Lapid is a red line."
Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Leibowitz, rosh yeshiva of Ponovezh in Bnei Brak, is hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center.
"After all, it's hard to understand how a country like Turkey begins a war and even refuse to say they're sorry. Er iz a meshuginer (Erdoğan is crazy)."
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One talkbacker said the kashrut certification is meaningless, because of the halachic concept of "minhag hamakom," the local practice. If it's been forbidden, it should stay so.
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Shimoni insisted that the Education Ministry’s plan is to move at a moderate pace, “not by force but with smarts, with a great deal of caring and sensitivity, but also with determination, never give up the goal.”
The rabbi from Tiberias almost fell into the sea trying to board the ship and settled for shouting from his boat, "Say Shema Yisrael."
Netanyahu's nominee for media adviser wrote last year that Rav Ovadia "damaged the country and the people he tried to help."
The Hebron Arab drives Hareidim to a Belz yeshiva, where he also works as maintenance man.
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The ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities of Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Borough Park, Brooklyn are experiencing an outbreak of Pertussis—also known as whooping cough
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Here’s a good reason to like your new mayor: he, or, rather, his police dept., doesn’t fine you as much as it used to.
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The Rabbi told his followers to go in and clean up Joseph's Tomb overnight after the Arabs destroyed it again.
Shoshana Selavan, chairperson of the Old City's Jewish Quarter community, launches a new column on Jewish Life in the Old City.
Tens of thousands of Jews are expected to arrive at the Western Wall at 4:30 p.m.
Two police officers were wounded by an Arab terrorist in the Old City. The attacker was killed.
A court order overruling Deri's "stop work" decision allows Israel Railways to continue maintenance and construction work on Shabbat.
Hareidim claimed victory by blocking the appointment of three "liberal religious Zionists" to the country's 12 regional rabbinical courts. There now are 22 judges, 7 more than in previous years, but only eight of them are from the national religious community. The other 14 are divided equally between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Haredim Absent from […]
"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."
Torah sages surrendered to the High Court's ruling that a "Deputy Minister" cannot act as Minister.
The Tosher Rebbe, z'l, has passed away at the age of 95. Baruch Dayan Emes. May his memory be for a blessing.
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"How can you live with the fact that Yishai Schlissel looks more like you than he does me?"
At least two people were flown to a hospital and three others were treated locally Wednesday after a foot bridge collapsed at a kosher hotel in Switzerland. Among the injured were Zurich Jewish leader Rabbi Hirsch Padwa, whose father leads the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in London. The accident occurred at the Levin’s Hotel […]
Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach is recovering from successful cardiac surgery at Tel Hashomer hospital.
The gang attacked a Haredi man and then a religious couple with brass knuckles and a knife. The woman recited the Shema prayer.
Shlomo Boim, who founded Field One, also developed a filter for Hareidi Internet users.
Hareidi soldiers will form a new combat unit, and Hareidim are being integrated into combat support positions.
It is questionable if anti-Semitism really is not on the rise in the United States. It really is the same as it was 100 years ago, but more overt instead of covert.
He refuses to consider Reform Jews as "Jews" but "welcomes them with love and joy" to be just like him.
Netanyahu falsely accused Bennett of signing a coalition agreement that returns more power to Hareidim.
The funeral for Rabbi Yekutiel Menachem Rapp is to pass by 770 Eastern Parkway Tuesday at 3:45 pm ET.
Chief Sephardi Rabbi: "'God has not made me a woman,' not like someone from Efrat who comes up with all kinds of new ideas, makes news and and wages wars."
Boro Park Vizhnitzer Chassidic leader Rabbi Pinchas Shalom Hager, z'l, passes away at age 67.
The Hareidi politicians agreed to not protest the country club after the mayor agreed to move it. So much for agreements.
Effort to depose Rabbi Riskin are revenge against his positions and halachic decisions.
The Chief Rabbinate will invite Rabbi Riskin for a hearing on whether to extend his term, ostensibly because of his age but possibly because of his views on conversion.
ICPHH Event Rallies Community to Support Wall Around 3000-Year Old Cemetery.
By Shalom Bear
Only in Israel will a Litvak MK go to a Chassideshe Rebbe to convince an "anti-Chareidi" MK to join the coalition.
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