יום שלישי, כ״ח אב תשפ״וTuesday, August 11, 2026
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Bnei Brak Hassidic woman and child are fine after C-section birth of in-vitro-fertilization baby.
The Officer-Rabbi was making a Shiva call when the extremists confronted him.
"High noon" is 8 p.m. Wednesday. New elections, anyone?
Kachlon is sounding suspiciously like Yair Lapid, the last government's supposed champion of "social justice."
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park holds the record for the highest birth rate in New York City in 2013.
The officer of a Hareidi IDF unit was in Mea Shearim to visit two of his soldiers whose families have social or financial problems.
President Reuven Rivlin granted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu two more weeks Monday morning to form a new government coalition after negotiations with different t parties have not produced a positive result. Rivlin really had no other choice. He would like to see a national unity government with the Likud and the Zionist Union, the euphemism […]
Bennett drew his red line on Twitter, but don’t worry. There is a Jewish solution.
Sirens were heard across the country at 10 a.m., when people were asked to stand, or stop their cars, in memory of 6 million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis. Many Hareidim, but not all of them, do not stand, and every year the anti-Hareidi media post a picture of Hareidim walking while the siren blares. […]
The election polls reflect the demographics of Israel, united by faith and divided by ideology and tradition.
The Shas chairman, the smartest politician in town, knows a coalition in the hand is better than one in the bush.
Shas says the national anthem is just a modern poem, not the Torah.
"You shall not pervert justice… and you shall not take a bribe, for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise…" (Deuteronomy, 16:19).
One arrested student is suspected of hitting a policeman in the face with a metal bar.
Anti-draft Haredim blocked roads in Jerusalem, Modi'in and Ashdod.
Maybe the court will forgive the gang because one of them apologized.
By Rachel Levy
The latest Hamas music video has hit the top of the charts and stirred the passions of the Palestinian soul. Satire.
Chief Rabbi David Lau reminds all Jews to say the Kaddish prayer in memory of Holocaust victims.
The results of the poll may cause people to start changing their minds.
High housing prices are blamed, but has anyone suggested that working for a living might help?
By JTA
A 10-year-old Brooklyn Haredi girl was killed and her mother, nine months pregnant, was injured when they were hit by a minivan while crossing the street in the Borough Park neighborhood. The mother, Sarah Friedman, was taken to the hospital, where she delivered a healthy baby girl — her fifth child — on Tuesday night. […]
And we can already hear Obama and Kerry telling him not to upset Allah and thank God on the Temple Mount.
Har Nof Rabbi: We Have Much to Learn From the Druze Community
The slashing of government child subsidies is one of the primary reasons for the dramatic rise of working Hareidi women.
Neturei Karta forgets Amalek and remembers Amalek.
The Beit Din was shocked when an audio tape exposed how a well-known Kabbalist convinced at least one married woman to have an affair with him.
By JTA
Reform and Conservative day school enrollment is down sharply.
By Shalom Bear
At best, the Hareidim have been eating "Heter Mechira". At worse, they've been eating vegetables grown in sewer water or pesticides from unknown and unsupervised Arabs fields.
By JTA
“God is trying to wake us up,” said the grandfather.
Were you on the plane? Let us know what really happened.
Wouldn’t be a lot easier if fanatic Haredim would simply charter their own planes?
By JTA
A “wandering Sukkah” catches up with wandering Jews.
By JTA
The “perfect” etrog actually has one big non-Halachic blemish – it is not grown in Israel.
By JTA
A simple solution for Haredi demands would be separate planes.
A recent Jerusalem municipal decision regarding a virgin, angered ultra-Orthodox representatives.
Dozens of Jewish graves and gravestones on the Mount of Olives were desecrated during Rosh HaShanna.
By JTA
Search warrants unsealed in Quebec allege that the Haredi Lev Tahor sect trafficked in human cargo and committed other abuses. The documents also reveal that Interpol and Israel helped build the criminal case against the group before its 250 members fled to Guatemala in March with leader Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans. The list of charges in […]
By JTA
Mixing the Haredi Lev Tahor cult with a bunch of fiercely religious Roman Catholics is a recipe for dynamite.
Sofer, who may have died from dehydration after falling in a ravine while hiking, is being buried in Beit Shemesh.
The case of missing U.S. yeshiva student Aaron Sofer, studying in Israel, remains unsolved after six days.
Israeli searchers for missing Lakewood, New Jersey yeshiva student Aaron Sofer have found some of his personal belongs near a trail, his last known location, but fears are growing that the 23-year-old youth has been kidnapped and/or murdered. Police and a dog unit have tracked the Jerusalem Forest area where he was last seen on […]
The sect moved from Quebec to Ontario and now is scattered in the US and Israel but mostly in Guatemala.
By JTA
Rabbi Raksin’s funeral was in North Miami Beach , and he will be buried in New York on Mnday.
The son of late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Avraham Yosef, is under investigation.
Jewish kindergarten children were attacked Sunday in Antwerp by a group of Muslim teens.
An Arab thief learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to steal from a yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Ashkelon launched a new separate gender beach this week, but only on land.
By JTA
A Brooklyn construction worker has been indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Haredi real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor hired by Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he and two accomplices accidentally suffocated […]
The TV station sent out a cameraman to get a video of Haredim during the siren. They got a video, but not the one they wanted.
IDF and the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) have teamed up to create the first pre-army military academy (mechina) for the haredi community. There are 16 students in the inaugural class at Yeshivat Derech Haim, located in the Bayit Vegan neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Students will spend two years involved in full-time yeshiva study, […]
The U.S. concept of separation of church and state means separating Jews from Judaism in Israel.
Streets were blocked, garbage burned, and some general mayhem ensued after a Haredi draft dodger was arrested.
By Shalom Bear
The state has demanded back NIS 84,000 for the time the man was not studying in Yeshiva, when he claimed he was.
By Shalom Bear
30,000 Haredim recently received their permanent IDF exemptions, but now the Haredi community isn't meeting their minimal draft quotas.
By JTA
A dozen Canadian border security officials raided the compound of the fringe Haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor Wednesday and arrested seven members believed to be in violation of immigration laws. Two families in the Lev Tahor community are at the center of an ongoing child custody case, including one family who fled to Guatemala, the […]
By JTA
A 65-year-old Haredi Orthodox man from London visiting New York for his grandson’s wedding was attacked early Tuesday morning in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park as he left the wedding reception. The attackers smashed their victim’s face into the sidewalk, and he was treated at a local hospital for a split lip and chipped […]
Last week, the Haredi politicians and Aryeh Deri in particular couldn't get enough of Labor (Avoda) leader Yitchak Herzog. It looks like that party is over.
By JTA
Six children from the Haredi Lev Tahor sect who fled Canada will be allowed to remain in Guatemala with their parents, but with conditions, a Guatemalan family court judge ruled Tuesday. The Lev Tahor members from two families can stay in the Central American country, but they must check in with the Canadian embassy within […]
The Knesset passed the bill to draft more Ultra-Orthodox Jews into the IDF.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sexist and often violent, corrupt and even anti-Zionist Haredim in Beit Shemesh create a false image of the city.
By David Morris
Eli Cohen is now the nationally-known face of electoral integrity and honesty in Israel.
By JTA
A Canadian judge has ordered child protection officials to use law enforcement agencies to apprehend 14 children in the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor after most of them fled the country. On Wednesday, the judge was supposed to hear an appeal of an earlier ruling to seize the children and return them to Quebec to […]
By JTA
A Canadian court ordered the fringe haredi Orthodox Lev Tahor sect to turn over as many as 13 of its children to authorities after some of its members appeared to have fled the country. Police officers and children’s aid workers visited Lev Tahor homes Wednesday night in Chatham-Kent, in southwest Ontario, with the landlord helping […]
The families involved in the court appeal have been under strict restrictions not to leave Ontario.
Will the Haredim escape to Israel before or after the gates are closed.
The protest was a peaceful one.
The Haredi protest against Lapid’s drive to draft them is only the first shot in what promises to be an ugly war.
Incitement is not taken lightly in Israel since the murder of Rabin, and even warning of a murder can be dangerous.
If there is such a thing as religious coercion, there also is secular coercion.
By Joe Levin
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto allegedly ordered a New York City police officer to arrest his top aide’s business rival.
A Knesset committee headed by Jewish Home Knesset Member Ayelet Shaked approved on Wednesday a bill that would put Haredi draft dodgers in jail but which also has galvanized Haredi leaders to prepare for all-out war. The bill faced an immediate challenge by MK Shaked's party colleague Moti Yogev, who called on the committee to […]
By JTA
Haredi Orthodox yeshiva students will face criminal charges for dodging the draft under a proposed law, after the intervention of the prime minister, Israeli media has reported. Under the proposed military draft law, the Haredi men would be criminally charged for evading the draft, but the penalties would not go into effect until 2017, according […]
When a Muslim won’t look at a woman, it is called respect. When a Jew won’t shake her hand, it is called sexism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It could be Vogue or Elle. But it’s Hadar Magazine. In English, “hadar” means “glorious.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"In many cases, perpetrators are ‘shipped’ to different communities instead of being dealt with.”
The next presidents of Israel as well as the United States might be women.
Hate graffiti and swastikas painted on a Haredi Orthodox school in Be’er Sheva is the result of “incitement against the Haredi Orthodox,” the Shas Party said Wednesday after the vandalism at the entrance to the school was discovered. “The public atmosphere against the haredi public and Torah students has gotten out of control and actually […]
Police from Israel’s Major Crime Unit have recommended that former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger be put on trial for charges of bribery, money laundering and breach of public trust. The recommendation revealed more details of alleged criminal violations, including the rabbi’s allegedly pocketing money for his participation in a ceremony in Poland marking 70 […]
By JTA
Will the Haredi rabbi who prefers U.S. army uniforms to those of IDF on Purim tell U.S. Haredim to fight for Uncle Sam?
By Tibbi Singer
The Rebbe will be staying in R. Asher Lev Wolf's luxurious apartment on Minchat Yitzchak Street in Jerusalem.
Haredim could turn hate into love by serving in the army and showing non-religious soldiers the Light of Torah,
The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the government to cease all funding of yeshivas whose students do not enlist in the IDF. The decision struck in one blow further sealed the fate of Haredi leaders fighting the “equal burden” policy pursued by Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid and also gave him a needed […]
By JTA
An Ontario judge ruled Monday that children from a fringe Haredi sect whose members fled Quebec while the community was being investigated by social services should be returned to the province. The court upheld a Quebec order to place 13 children from the Lev Tahor sect into temporary foster care, The Canadian Press reported, but […]
By JTA
A newborn in New York who underwent his ritual circumcision rite is undergoing treatment for neonatal genital herpes, according to the Forward, contracted after metzitzah b’peh, in which the ritual circumciser places his mouth directly on the child’s circumcision wound to revive the shocked blood stream. The New York City Department of Health and Mental […]
Neturei Karta is shooting itself in the head with its anti-Zionist antics, and that might be all for the best.
Yiddish messages rooted in Jewish liturgy and Biblical texts encouraging Jews to make Aliyah.
A Crown Heights Shul was burglarized on Friday night and the thief made off with the silver crown of the Sefer Torah, tools, a guitar and other items of value, crownheights.info reported. The theft occurred in Chevra Ahavas Yisroel on Albany Avenue and Lincoln Place, and was discovered Shabbat Morning when the Shuls Rabbi, Rabbi Chezzi […]
By JTA
New York Rep. Eliot L. Engel sent a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu to express his concern over the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s decision to reject Jewish status letters written by Rabbi Avi Weiss. Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote in the letter to Israel’s prime minister dated Jan. 10 that: […]
"He was definitely casing the guy," police source said.
The Haredi husband faces trial before an Israeli rabbinical court and, ultimately, Israel’s criminal justice system.
By JTA
Stark was remembered by friends and relatives as a “go-to guy.”
“He owed a lot of people money.”
Chabad emissaries would share the same status as those who do national service.
Queen Elizabeth will grant Israeli Haredi Rabbi Yitzchak Shapira one of the Commonwealth’s highest civilian honors with an appointment as Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the British Embassy announced Tuesday. Rabbi Shapira is the son of former Haredi Knesset Member Rabbi Avraham Yosef Shapira. The Embassy said he will be […]
Haredi political leaders across the board called a court ruling for new elections in Beit Shemesh” corrupt,” “racist” and a sign of “dictatorship,” among other less than complimentary adjectives. The court accepted a petition by Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein that documented corruption in the voting October 22 as ground for voiding the election results, which […]
The rabbinical leader of the Vishnitz Chas - the new Knesset law that Haredim must serve in the army just like every Jew in the country. The two rabbis spoke for approximately 15 minutes, a relatively long time, and spoke “words of Torah and subjects that are on the agenda,” the Haredi website Kikar HaShabbat […]
The Lithuanian Council of Torah Sages and the Hasidic Council of Torah Sages organized two protests in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem Monday against a Knesset committee in the process of adding details to the new draft law requiring almost all Israeli Jewish youth to report for military duty. “They are trying to bring us closer […]
By JTA
The Haredi Gat Brothers, Aryeh and Gil, have become the first act named to the semi-finals of the popular new Israeli talent show “Rising Star.” The show, which allows Israeli viewers to vote in real time for their favorite performers using an app on their mobile phones, is designed to uncover the next hot Israeli […]
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