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IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Memorial Day Ceremony Honors Fallen Israeli Soldiers From ‘Haredi’ Units

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The ceremony, first held in 2019 with some 1,200 people, was attended by hundreds of religious soldiers and members of the bereaved families.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / Coronavirus

Senior Israeli Rabbis Urge Ultra-Orthodox Public to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

By Israel Hayom

The hope is that the decree, issued by rabbis Chaim Kanievsky, Gershon Edelstein, Shalom Cohen and Elimelech Firer, will be helpful in curbing morbidity in the “haredi” community.

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.

Photo of the Day

Under Protection

By Photo of the Day

Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit Hebron under tight protection by the IDF

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 / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Health and Medicine / Religion

Research Links Being Religious with a Happy Life - but only for Jews

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Education Ministry Official: We Have Plans to Integrate the Ultra-Orthodox

By JNi.Media

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.”

Haredim & Hassidim / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Rav Ovadia Joins Kerry, Obama and Rivlin on Baratz's 'Hit List'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Netanyahu's nominee for media adviser wrote last year that Rav Ovadia "damaged the country and the people he tried to help."

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

Deri Backs Down on Shabbat Work Halt on New Rail Line

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A court order overruling Deri's "stop work" decision allows Israel Railways to continue maintenance and construction work on Shabbat.

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

Secular Leftists Applaud New Hareidi Minister

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religion

Ashkenazi Hareidi MK Now Cabinet Minister for First Time in 60 Years

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Torah sages surrendered to the High Court's ruling that a "Deputy Minister" cannot act as Minister.

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

IDF's New Weapon: Soaring Number of Hareidi Combat Soldiers

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hareidi soldiers will form a new combat unit, and Hareidim are being integrated into combat support positions.

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

Bennett and Netanyahu Clash over Rollback of Religious Reforms

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Netanyahu falsely accused Bennett of signing a coalition agreement that returns more power to Hareidim.

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

Hareidi Rabbis Warn New Sport Club Will Cause Desecration of Shabbat'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Hareidi politicians agreed to not protest the country club after the mayor agreed to move it. So much for agreements.

Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset

Herzog Wants New Elections

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Herzog's idea sounds stupid, but if it is taken seriously, it might be a great brainstorm.

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Shas MK Deri Calls Hareidi Assault on IDF Officer 'Terror'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The officer of a Hareidi IDF unit was in Mea Shearim to visit two of his soldiers whose families have social or financial problems.

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 […]

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Not So Kosher Shemittah L'Mehadrin

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.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Jerusalem

The Virgin of Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

A recent Jerusalem municipal decision regarding a virgin, angered ultra-Orthodox representatives.

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 […]

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 / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Arab Snow Attackers Apprehended

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

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

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

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