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Haredim & Hassidim / Antisemitism / Jordan

Haredi Jews Denied Entry to Jordan

By Israel Hayom

Tuesday’s incident was not the first time the Jordanians have allegedly refused entry to visitors clearly identifiable as Jews by their dress or ritual objects.

Featured / The Muqata

Chareidim Don't Work and Won't Go into the Army

By JoeSettler

Asking the right questions and looking at the data a little differently makes you realize that everything you've been told about Chareidim is wrong.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

IDF Using Facebook to Catch Fraudulent Chareidi Draft Dodgers

By Jewish Press News Desk

The young men "shared" their lives on Facebook, proving they were not living Chareidi lives, as they had claimed to the IDF.

Photo of the Day

On the Last Night of Chanukah...

By Photo of the Day

Candle lighting on the 8th night of Chanukah in Meah Shearim.

Food / Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Some Ultra-Orthodox Troubled by Bazooka’s New Kosher Certification

By JNi.Media

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.

Photo of the Day

Celebrating Freedom

By Photo of the Day

I don't recall this many people showing up when I was honorably completed my IDF service! Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a demonstration celebrating the release from prison of four Yeshiva student/draft dodgers who failed to comply with an IDF recruitment order. The protest-celebration took place near Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on February 16, […]

Photo of the Day

Not a Bulldozer Attack

By Photo of the Day

Hareidi Jews block a bulldozer as they protest at a construction site in Jerusalem on January 19, 2015. They're protesting against what they claim is the desecration of ancient graves which were discovered at a housing construction site in Jerusalem. If only these guys would come out when Jewish homes are being destroyed, and not […]

Haredim & Hassidim / US / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Hareidim Beat Out Hare Krishna in Measles Outbreak

By Jewish Press News Desk

Of the 175 cases of measles in the U.S in 2013, a mere 23 were connected to Hare Krishnas in North Carolina. The 175 cases were triple the national average in previous years. Embarrassingly enough, the largest group of people infected with measles came from our very own anti-vaccination cult of Brooklyn Hareidi Jews. Thirty […]

Israel

School Starts in Israel

By Shalom Bear

Millions of adults in Israel are unusually happy today as 2,129,562 children return to school for the start of the school year.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Haredi Man asks Woman to Move to Back of Bus, Gets Punched in Face in Response

By Jewish Press News Desk

On a Jerusalem bus driving in Givat Shaul on Kanfei Nesharim street, a Haredi man asked a secular woman to move to the back of the bus, according to a report in YNet. At that point, a secular man, also on the bus, got up and punched the Haredi man in the face and then […]

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

200 Haredim Drafted on Thursday

By Jewish Press News Desk

This latest draft represents a 30% increase in the number of Haredim drafted into the battalion.

The Muqata

Hareidim - N.I.M.B.Y.

By JoeSettler

No one wants Hareidim moving into their neighborhood. But no one is letting them build all-Hareidi communities either.

Israel / Politics / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5773

What Will the Chareidim Do?

By Jewish Press News Desk

In the past, Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) participation in election voting has never topped more than around a third of their potential voters. Chareidim have avoided voting for two primary reasons. The first is to minimize their participation in the Zionist enterprise, the second is that many Chareidim are actually disillusioned with the Chareidi political leadership, and […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Arab Snow Attackers Apprehended

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Police arrest everyone involved in the anti-Semitic attack in Jerusalem.

Guest Blog

Haredim, Wake Up and Toughen Up

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

When Jews are attacked in broad daylight in the world's holiest city, something is horrifically wrong in Israel.

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Future of Judaism

By Harry Maryles

Modern Orthodox Jews will join the ranks of Moderate Charedim as a socially cohesive group.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Does the Very Air in Israel Make One Wise?

By Harry Maryles

I don’t know what is in the air in Israel that makes some people think that they are doing the right thing by God in sticking knives into the heads of their opponents.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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