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Haredi Judaism

Haredim & Hassidim / The Courts

Senior Haredi Dayan Clarifies: Eliezer Berland Did Touch Women – Everywhere

By Jewish Press News Desk

The wording of Dayan Rosenberg's letter is most extraordinary in the Haredi community, where spiritual leaders refrain from publicly addressing sex offenses or similar issues and in rare cases do so only vaguely, using hints and code words.

Headline / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Coronavirus

Beitar Goes into Lockdown

By Jewish Press News Desk

Only local residents and suppliers will be allowed in and out of the Haredi town of Beitar Ilit in Gush Etzion.

Israel / Photo of the Day / Coronavirus

Haredi Helpers

By Photo of the Day

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox are helping those in need during the coronavirus crisis.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / Coronavirus

Israel Mulling Bnei Brak Quarantine after Police Report Difficulty Enforcing Lockdown

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Infections in Bnei Brak are increasing eightfold every three days, compared to the twofold national average.

Featured / Haredim & Hassidim / The Courts / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel

Haredim Appeal to High Court Against Police Excessive Use of Skunk Water

By JNi.Media

"Imagine taking a chunk of rotting corpse from a stagnant sewer, placing it in a blender and spraying the filthy liquid in your face."

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Elections / Jerusalem

Haredim Tore Election Posters of Jerusalem Mayoral Candidate Rachel Azarya

By JNi.Media

Azaria, for her part, argued that she had been receiving calls from her Haredi supporters who were "shocked by the act and expressed their disgust."

Featured / Israel / Religion / Judaism

The Grieving Habits of Israeli Jews

By JNi.Media

Four percent of Israeli Jews (almost two hundred and fifty thousand) say they visit the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av.

IDF & Security / Government / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Knesset Committee Ratifies Haredi Draft Bill; Plenum Will Vote Tomorrow

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The new bill pushes off economic sanctions against Haredi yeshivot that fail to meet their quotas.

Featured / IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / Government / Elections / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Netanyahu Promoting IDF Draft Bill, Unafraid of Haredim, Elections

By JNi.Media

Netanyahu told the three Haredi coalition leaders at the meeting, who insist they oppose the draft law in its present form: "I do not want new elections, but I'm not afraid of elections, and if there are elections, I'll do fine."

Featured / IDF & Security / Religious & Secular in Israel

Golani Brigade to Get Haredi Company as 7,600 Haredi Officers and Soldiers Serve in IDF

By JNi.Media

According to the plan, which is being formulated in collaboration between the IDF HR division and the Golani Brigade, the special Haredi company will be added to the ranks of the brigade come March 2019.

Featured / Politics / Anti-Israel NGOs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Report: NIF Targets Religion in Campaign to Win Back Government

By JNi.Media

One major target for this project are Chabad activities, which include summer camps for children in municipalities that cannot afford one.

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / Police and Crime / Government / Religious & Secular in Israel

Homeland Security: Haredi Prisoners Can Pray Wearing Suits and Hats

By JNi.Media

Eventually, the IPS will purchase and issue suits and hats to prisoners who have received permission to wear them.

Featured / Haredim & Hassidim / Religion / Judaism

Haredi Couple Married on Shabbat Due to 'Urgent Circumstances'

By JNi.Media

The Sheva Brachot meal could not be held as planned on Shabbat morning because the existence of a bride and a groom was in doubt.

Featured / The Muqata

Fakes, Frauds and Phonies

By JoeSettler

The Peleg Yerushalmi protesters are not Yeshiva students and not Hareidi.

Featured / Haredim & Hassidim / Business and Economy / Religious & Secular in Israel

Rav Ovadia Yosef's Mythical Chair Auctioned, Asking Price $57,000

By JNi.Media

"It has gone through chuppas, bris millahs, public conferences and various other events, during which people who needed medicine, spouses, blessings and salvation sat on it."

Headline / Politics / Police and Crime / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel

Police Raid Offices of Beit Shemesh Municipality, Arrest Official

By JNi.Media

Police suspect that a tender was published a year ago by the local municipality, and the investigation has so far shown that a council member skewed the terms of the tender to favor one particular company.

Featured / Politics / Government / The Courts / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Beitar Beleaguered Burghers Boo Bibi

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Several dozen residents of the Gush Etzion settlements block on Thursday gathered at the entrance to the town of Beitar Illit to call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene against a High Court of Justice decree to demolish Netiv Ha’Avot, a small neighborhood of 17 homes adjacent to the town of Elazar. Netanyahu was […]

Headline / Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Police and Crime / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Central America / Obituaries

Report: Haredi Cult Leader Shlomo Helbrans Drowned in Mexico

By JNi.Media

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.

Headline / Haredim & Hassidim / US / Government / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Assimilation

Coalition Emergency Meeting on Conversion Blown Up by Haredim

By JNi.Media

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."

A Hebrew in the Heartland

A Hebrew in the Heartland - New Hope for Troubled Boys

By Israel News Talk Radio

A solution for teens with learning difficulties and emotional challenges in the Charedi community in Israel.

Headline / Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / Interfaith Relations / Assimilation

Study: Non-Orthodox US Jewish Communities Growing Barren

By JNi.Media

'The absence of children – particularly children being raised in the Jewish religion – represents yet one more missing incentive to Jewish communal engagement.'

Featured / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Assimilation

Survey: Only 46% of Next Generation National Religious Israelis Keep the Faith

By JNi.Media

Meanwhile, the proportion of students attending ultra-Orthodox schools has increased by about 300% since 1992.

Featured / IDF & Security / Politics / History / Religious & Secular in Israel

Likud Haredim to Commemorate Fallen Haredi Soldiers

By JNi.Media

Last year, the ceremony was interrupted by Haredi extremists who attempted to prevent it from taking place and succeeded in chasing away many participants.

Photo of the Day

Black and Blue

By Photo of the Day

Police sprayed blue water/paint on ultra-Orthodox protesters.

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Holds Heated Debate on Harassment of Haredi IDF Soldiers

By JNi.Media

'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.'

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / On Campus / Education

Bennett Touts Education Ministry's Service to Kindergartners, Special Ed

By JNi.Media

Bennett pledged that his ministry would combat ethnic discrimination in the enrollment process of all educational institutions, particularly the ultra-Orthodox.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

New Data Shows Israelis Tie the Knot Much Later Than in Past

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

By Michael Bachner/TPS Jerusalem (TPS) – Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has published data on marriage in Israel ahead of Tu B’av, the Jewish day of love, which is frequently celebrated in modern times in a similar fashion to Valentine’s Day. The CBS data shows a significant difference between Israel in 2014 compared to […]

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / On Campus / Education

Knesset Passes Law Killing Core Curriculum Requirement

By JNi.Media

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.

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.

Haredim & Hassidim / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Media / Jerusalem / Science and Tech

Reports: Haredi Establishment Using MikvahCams to Prevent Scandals

By JNi.Media

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.

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judaism

Likely Compromise Found in Coalition Rift over Reform, Conservative Mikvahs

By JNi.Media

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.

IDF & Security / Jewish / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Government / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Dozens of Haredi Rabbis Call on Israel to Kill Every Terrorist 'As Soon As He Leaves the House'

By JNi.Media

The Haredi rabbis referred to "stupid" statements by senior officials in government and the military which, they said, dishonor the nation of Israel and the IDF soldiers.

Jewish / Politics / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / On Campus / Education

Beis Ya'kov Girls Get Passover Gift: Multiplication Table Printed on Cleaning Rags

By JNi.Media

The parents of said schoolgirls said the gift is offensive to the girls as well as to their families.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Animal Rights Activists Physically Prevent Kapparot in Ashdod

By JNi.Media

The activists turned over crates full of chickens, sprayed the birds with water, and even stole some of them.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Hareidim Keep 'Liberal' Zionists in Minority on Rabbinical Courts

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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 […]

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

High Court Demands Ultra-Orthodox Deputy Health Minister Be Upgraded to Minister or Fired

By JNi.Media

Deputy Minister Litzman is considered by most of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to be one of the most competent elected officials today.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Spiritual Cafe: ‘Hebrew,’ ‘Jew,’ ‘Israelite’

By Moshe Herman

Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Yishai to talk about the weekly Torah portion. They talk about the significance of the Jewish people having at least three names. They also wonder why so many Jews forget the astounding investment our people have made to keep our nation Jewish.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

‘The Blues Is Real’

By Moshe Herman

Hasidic blues musician Lazer Lloyd shares his spiritual journey and meditative music with Yishai. Lloyd tells of playing for the most varied of audiences and feeling the connection we all share, before explaining what he sees as the united trifecta of blues music, hasidism and Israel. He plays three original songs in-studio: “Back Porch,” “Rocking in the Holy Land” and “My Own Blues.”

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Tisha B’Av vs. Israel Independence Day

By Moshe Herman

Rabbi Mottle Wolfe joins Yishai to discuss the contours of the religious-secular divide in the Jewish state. The two show hosts talk about the phenomenon of the very secular Tel Aviv being a mere five kilometers away from the ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak. The former celebrates Israel Independence Day, but doesn’t fast on the day that marks the loss of Jewish sovereignty 2,000 years ago. The latter observes the religious fast, but does not take part in the modern celebrations of statehood. They envision a way to move the process of building the third Jewish commonwealth forward.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Go Canada

By Moshe Herman

Conservative minister of the Canadian Parliament Peter Kent tells Yishai why his country will not agree to lift Iranian sanctions. Kent, chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defense, explains that, unlike the United States, Canada demands to see true reform within the Islamic Republic before making concessions. This unwavering position places Canada as a leader against turning a blind eye to terrorism.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

How to Cure Israel of its ‘Weakness’ Malaise

By Moshe Herman

JPost op-ed editor Seth Frantzman talks to Yishai about the prosecution of an IDF officer who ordered the shelling of a terror position. They wonder whether Israel is doing this in order to show the world that “we prosecute our own,” so it won’t have to, and discuss the phenomenon of Israeli self-blame.

Haredim & Hassidim / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Judaism

Shas MK Begins 'Three Week's with 'Senseless Hate' against Reform Jews

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

He refuses to consider Reform Jews as "Jews" but "welcomes them with love and joy" to be just like him.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

IDF Officer-Rabbi Attacked in Beit Shemesh

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Officer-Rabbi was making a Shiva call when the extremists confronted him.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

Jewish Life in Baltimore: Private Guards on Shabbat

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Is Aliyah to Israel going through the minds of Jews going to synagogues where private guards are needed?

Haredim & Hassidim / NY / News Briefs / Judaism / Local

Borough Park Crowned NY City's Baby Capital

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park holds the record for the highest birth rate in New York City in 2013.

The Muqata

Secular Coercion and HaAchim Gat

By JoeSettler

They called it "religious coercion" but it was really "secular coercion" and secular intolerance.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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