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This is what Israelis should really be demanding.
The tomb of Rav Ashi, a Babylonian sage, is located inside an IDF military outpost on the Blue Line between the two countries.
The 35 enlisted in the police as an alternative to serving in the IDF.
Of the 3,000 religious Haredi men who received army conscription notices during the summer, only 461 complied.
"The IDF is investing great efforts to recruit ultra-Orthodox members under conditions that will allow them to maintain their lifestyle and beliefs.”
Many IDF reservists have done over 300 days of service since the war began due to the shortage of fighters to replace them.
The event saw 31 Haredi men, graduates of the “Avneit” unit, complete their rigorous training and officially join the ranks of the Border Police, a paramilitary unit within the Israel Police that focuses on border security, counterterrorism, and maintaining internal security.
Arbel was speaking one day after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told lawmakers he would begin drafting yeshiva students next month.
A budget of 70 million shekels ($18.6 million), was approved.
Benny Gantz submitted this bill in the previous Knesset.
How can we understand that parts of our nation rejects Medinat Yisrael as the “Alta d’Geula”.
Haredi party leaders have expressed openness to the proposed legislation as it does not include forced enlistment quotas.
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
In most cases, these are students from the Sephardi yeshivot, who are in any case better integrated into the general Israeli society.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli prime minister had asked for another extension—this time for 30 days—so he could reach a political agreement on the issue
By Israel Hayom
Haredim who enlist would get benefits while those who do not would be financially disadvantaged through what is called “negative incentives.”
By David Isaac
Haredim have realized they need to rely on their own capabilities and resources to defend their communities and families.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If the conscription law is not passed before the budget, we will withdraw from the government," Yitzhak Goldknopf said.
44% of Haredi parent don't object to their children learning English, as long as it's after school hours.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Technology usage is up, along with a rapid increase in technological training, which may impact wages among haredim in the future.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Hermes 900, made by Elbit, can be used for intelligence-gathering and airstrikes
The community built 15 buildings including a shul and a yeshiva.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Report: Despite forming more than 50% of Israeli exports, Israel Innovation Authority figures show the two communities’ participation in high-tech industry is declining.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The latest polls show Bennett barely getting into the Knesset if elections were held.
The average Israeli is spending thousands of shekels trying to figure out how to keep their kids busy in August.
Carr: New York’s governor and mayor could have handled the situation far better with communities wanting to “worship and attend funerals.”
Israel's Ultra-Orthodox are helping those in need during the coronavirus crisis.
By JNi.Media
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.
By JNi.Media
Interestingly, several Muslim and European countries have enacted laws compelling their mosques to "muffle" their loudspeakers, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
Anti-draft Haredim blocked roads in Jerusalem, Modi'in and Ashdod.
National religious voters favoring the new Yachad party headed by Eli Yishai may be wasting their votes.
Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.
Chief Rabbi David Lau reminds all Jews to say the Kaddish prayer in memory of Holocaust victims.
High housing prices are blamed, but has anyone suggested that working for a living might help?
The giant firm will build a cyber-defense center outside of central Israel and train Haredim and others.
Ramallah is encouraged by Obama’s implicit policy that Jews in eastern Jerusalem are “illegitimate.”
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?
Haredim possess strong feelings of kinship and belonging, desiring to contribute to Israeli society.
It is in our best interest to find new ways to infuse life and vitality into observant life.
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 Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sexist and often violent, corrupt and even anti-Zionist Haredim in Beit Shemesh create a false image of the city.
Will the Haredim escape to Israel before or after the gates are closed.
The protest was a peaceful one.
By JoeSettler
The heated debate in the settlements revolved around participating in the Haredi anti-draft rally planned for Sunday - or not.
By Shalom Bear
While Dati-Leumi Rabbis show solidarity with Haredim, Haredi MK Gafni threatens to destroy Hesder yeshivot and the Settlements.
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.
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 Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It could be Vogue or Elle. But it’s Hadar Magazine. In English, “hadar” means “glorious.”
Haredi youth have no excuse to dodge the draft, unless they really don’t want to learn Torah.
Haredim could turn hate into love by serving in the army and showing non-religious soldiers the Light of Torah,
Dozens of Jerusalem Haredim allegedly hurled rocks on Friday night, after the Sabbath began, at Arab vehicles on Route 1 that bypasses Mea Shearim, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The news agency claimed that the attacks “were racially-motivated assaults targeting Palestinians,” while police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said there had been no reports of […]
Yiddish messages rooted in Jewish liturgy and Biblical texts encouraging Jews to make Aliyah.
Chabad emissaries would share the same status as those who do national service.
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 proposal is facing secular opposition.
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 […]
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 […]
The idea of “One Rabbi for One People” sounds lovely, but can Jews really get along with each other if they have nothing to argue about?
By JTA
In a display of the changes the group has experienced this year, Women of the Wall held a peaceful prayer service under police protection at the Western Wall to mark the group’s 25th anniversary. Absent from Monday’s service, which the group said drew at least 800 worshipers, were large crowds of Orthodox girls who had […]
The Women of the Wall are unhappy again. Yes, they can read from the Torah, but now that have no scroll. It was damaged by dampness, and WoW blames the government for lack of proper storage.
Extremist Haredim were at again in Beit Shemesh, breaking into a construction site that they say contains old Jewish graves. The Haredim found the Arab guards even more violent.
The Women of the Wall was so focused on Haredim that the girls forgot to ask Jordan for permission to pray in their own minyan. Now maybe the WoW will wake up to reality and pray on the Temple Mount.
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.
Rabbis from the “Eidat Haredim” stream of ultra-orthodox Judaism have put their foot down and their hands in their pockets over extremist Haredim violence and have threatened to cut off payments to Torah students who participate in vandalism. Extremists have been protesting construction in the city, located several miles west of Jerusalem, because of claims […]
Radical Haredim rioted in Jerusalem and in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, on Monday because of construction at sites that they said contain Jewish graves. Police took into custody at least 14 rioters. The Haredim in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim and Geula neighborhoods set garbage containers on fire following a rabbinical ruled against claims of the […]
The British coastal resort’s University of Aberystwyth lost $150,000 in tourism income by banning orthodox Jews from lighting candles on Shabbat, a decision that forced them to cancel their annual summer visit to the campus on the Welsh coast, according to sources reported by the Cambrian News. Only 15 families vacationed in Aberystwyth, but not […]
Haredi Knesset Member Moshe Gafni said he doesn’t mind if yeshivas are monitored to make sure those enrolled are learning so long as universities get the same treatment. He had commented in the Maariv newspaper that students who do not actually learn day and night in yeshivas should serve in the army. MK Gafni, answering […]
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 […]
The Shas Haredi party can’t see past its black hat. Most of 91 Yesha towns now on the national priority list are near dangerous borders. Beitar Illit is not. Obviously, that’s discrimination, says Shas.
Black hat extremists in Beit Shemesh are giving Israel a black eye again. A Haredi couple tells a woman to go back to the bus. Police arrest them, and rioters smash bus windows.
By JTA
Unknown assailants robbed $50,000 from Haredi Jews last week at the Uman headquarters of a nonprofit group that works to accommodate the tens of thousands of followers of the Breslover rebbe who will pour into the city for the High Holidays in September, Ukrainian authorities said. The Ukrainian newspaper Segodnia reported that the money was […]
Watch for free the best theatre in the world. After the Knesset passed a bill on first reading to require all Jews to service in the IDF, Haredi MKs tore their shirts in mourning. Act Two to follow.
Jerusalem police allow Arabs to keep Jews from entering the Temple Mount, just like they used to allow Haredim to keep women away from the Kotel – until it was not politically correct.
No one expects the Arab city of Umm el Fahm to have a street names “Second Aliyah” but why does the Jewish city of Bnei Brak have to erase the name? Even “Jerusalem Street” is not Glatt Kosher.
We know that most Haredim in Israel don’t even know the Zionist anthem let alone sing it. But also America? It seems that way at the annual Flatbush Hatzolah-NYPD game. Anyway, ‘Good July 4 Yom Tov.’
Streisand loves Israel – she even visits the country once in a while. She gives lots of money. And she can’t resist a chance to preach about women’s rights in Israel but admits it is a "foreign land.”
By Guest Author
Reb Dov, I am perplexed. How did you move so far away so rapidly?
Women of the Wall plan their monthly Rosh Chodesh prayers at the Kotel the second day of the month, with a Torah scroll. It’s okay to make up rules as they go along, so long as the Orthodox don’t make the rules.
By JTA
Armed robbers reportedly “dressed like Haredim” ripped off a Jewish jeweler in France before releasing toxic gas in the air. Four men approached the jeweler near his Marseille shop on Wednesday morning, the news site La Depeche reported. Two of them were “dressed like haredis,” according to the French news agency AFP. Two wore masks, […]
In 1995, “everyone” knew settlers murdered Rabin. The “settler” Yigal Amir was from the Haifa area. Four years ago, gays accused Haredi gay-haters for killing three homosexuals. Now police say, “Not so.”
Remember Hamas missiles on Israeli cities? Remember last year’s bloated deficit? Haredi MKs don’t. Everything was great, they say, until Lapid’s universal draft, which turned Syria against Israel.
A poll commissioned by the Knesset Channel 99 revealed that two-thirds of Israelis favor jailing Haredim who refuse to join the armed forces. Almost the same majority backed extending the length of service for Hesder yeshiva students, according to the poll, quoted by the Jerusalem Post. The Peri Committee recommended treating Haredi draft dodgers as […]
No religious Jew would deny the merit that Torah study. But it is the height of folly to believe that a strong military is therefore unnecessary.
Lapid’s sounds like Bibi on the “peace process.” He has no trouble raising a regressive tax that hurts the middle class. But give the Haredim a break from the draft? Not in this government. We’ll see.
Just as the IRS targeted conservative groups, according a report, a leaked document states that Israel's Economic Affairs Ministry is targeting Haredi businesses and Yeshivos.
Eliminating all secular studies is taking "Talmud Torah k’neged kulom" to an absurd extreme.
What is really being gained by continuing to force Haredim to stay in the beis medrash full time via a draft that exempts Haredim?
Residents of the Haredi Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem hurled dozens of rocks at Haredi soldiers Sunday, according to Jerusalem police. No one was reported injured. Firemen were called to the scene to put out fires that the attackers set in large garbage containers. When the police arrived, the stone attackers fled.
If Shas does agree to allow a secular core curriculum in their schools, that will put Ashkenazi Haredi leaders between a rock and a hard place.
The issue is not our obligation to listen to our rabbinic leaders. It is about whether we should listen to the rabbinic leaders of others.
By JTA
Israel's Justice Minister Tzipi Livni ordered her ministry on Thursday to draft legislation that would make the gender-based segregation of women illegal. "Discrimination against women in public places, in public services, cannot be allowed," she said in a radio interview. She wrote on her Facebook page, "Removal of women from the public sphere is damaging […]
What I do not understand is the harshness of his condemnation.
We are a people whose mandate is Torah observance in all matters - between man and God as well as between man and his fellow man.
There is only one word that can explain the over the top reaction by Haredi establishment to this: Paranoia.
Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews. Lapid only wants to exterminate the Haredi habit of not to work or serve in the IDF. That is enough for a Haredi columnist to compare Lapid’s and Hitler’s speeches.
By Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
A flag with the Star of David hung prominently in the synagogues of Prague since the mid-14th century, with the approval of their great rabbis.
July 3, 2026 
