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A budget of 70 million shekels ($18.6 million), was approved.
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 army has not taken down the illegal Arab construction near Efrat or the illegal Bedouin shanty town of Khan al-Ahmar.
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 Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The latest polls show Bennett barely getting into the Knesset if elections were held.
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.
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.
Carr: New York’s governor and mayor could have handled the situation far better with communities wanting to “worship and attend funerals.”
By Israel Hayom
The ultra-Orthodox comprise about 12 percent of Israel’s general population and only a fraction of the population aged 65 and over.
Whether synagogues or “whether talking about black churches or Roman Catholic Churches, the community must agree to the rules,” insisted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Israel's Ultra-Orthodox are helping those in need during the coronavirus crisis.
The Pashkevil calls on the public to show their gratitude to Netanyahu for his support of the Haredi community.
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.
The party list features names from a variety of sides inside Israeli society.
Bennett has been courting the Haredi community to expand the ranks of Bayit Yehudi voters.
Minister Naftali Bennett has a lot to learn from Netanyahu about properly using props...
A young Hareidi man in the IDF's paratroopers unit was surprised at the Kotel...
MK Yitzhak Herzog spoke about the rabbi’s modesty and spiritual power, and said his impact on haredi Judaism would continue to be felt for generations.
Was Tzipi Hotovely wrong in what she said to American Jewry or was she right on the money?
Three extremists campaigning against the Conscription Law publicized his name and private family information.
By JoeSettler
The Peleg Yerushalmi protesters are not Yeshiva students and not Hareidi.
I have no words to describe my contempt for the "Rabbinic" leaders of the Peleg, who -- in their unbelievable arrogance and shortsightedness -- have stood by and not only allowed but ENCOURAGED this desecration of G-d, including fighting police and army, while in turn often calling them murderers and Nazis for simply trying to move them out of the way of traffic.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit Hebron under tight protection by the IDF
The IDF hopes to initially enlist 15-20 Chareidim for the unit.
The young men "shared" their lives on Facebook, proving they were not living Chareidi lives, as they had claimed to the IDF.
By JNi.Media
Using the US' enormous economic clout, FATCA bullies the world's financial institutions into reporting on their American clients to Uncle Sam.
Hareidi-religious rioters in Ashdod used violence to prevent IDF military police from arresting a draft-dodger.
Israeli police detained a few Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters who were blocking the main road in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Meah Shearim, during a demonstration against the arrest of two other Ultra-Orthodox army deserters.
Some fifty Hareidi men stand in protest at a construction site in Gilo where ancient grave were found while digging. They believe the bodies found are of Jews, and do not want them moved for the construction of new housing units that were planned for the site.
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.
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.”
By JNi.Media
Several coalition MKs are opposing the committee’s proposed changes to the draft law. The ultra-Orthodox have made it clear that the issue is a deal breaker,
Some Chareidi entertainers thrilled the crowd on Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street with some Jewish entertainment.
On Sunday night, Haredi Rabbis and Jews from Bnei Brak took part in a Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony for fallen soldiers.
The video is in Hebrew, but you'll get the idea even if you don't understand. Very inspiring. A "Kiddush Hashem".
By Dov Gilor
The cleansing of Europe of its non-Muslim population will be accomplished in another two or three generations.
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.
Will the Haredim escape to Israel before or after the gates are closed.
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.
By Kosher Today
The announcement by the 75-year old Crown Market in West Hartford, Connecticut, that it would be closing sent shock waves through the Jewish community. Mark Bakeoff, who bought the market five years ago, said tough economic conditions and increasing competition have made things difficult, but the biggest blow came with “one of the worst winters […]
Haredi youth have no excuse to dodge the draft, unless they really don’t want to learn Torah.
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 […]
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 […]
Very few middle aged and older people consider themselves ultra-orthodox. It’s a youth movement.
Universal army service will help integrate Haredim into the workplace so that they can earn a livable wage and support their families.
The suggestion is intriguing, self serving and frankly somewhat humorous.
It is always easiest to blame the rest of the world and not to make an accounting of your own ideology.
Why throw years of friendly cooperation into the trashcan?
This latest draft represents a 30% increase in the number of Haredim drafted into the battalion.
IDF to begin mass draft of Chareidim in August.
Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox adults and young children are protesting against the universal draft in Kikar Shabbat in Jerusalem. The adults have handcuffed all the children together as part of their protest. United Torah Judaism and Shas have renounced the demonstration and passed the message to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
“Fourteen hours a day in yeshiva but [a student] doesn’t learn a single word of English, math, history, science, geography, music art, nothing, nothing, nothing.”
A high-number of Haredi women responded to the survey. Haredi women suffering from eating issues also face a particular set of challenges.
On the issue of ultra-Orthodox military service, 41% of those surveyed said they would be moderately or very interested in joining the Haredi IDF program, while 59% said they had either little or no interest. Still, the percentage of interest is substantially higher than the current annual rate of Haredi enlistment in the IDF.
The intensifying focus on legislating an alternative to the Tal Law has the ultra-Orthodox parties in the Likud-led coalition defensive yet intractable. Shas and UTJ - representing 15 seats in the government - have declared that they will not participate in the coalition committee on finding an alternative.
Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews will participate in a huge rally to be held on Sunday evening, May 20, at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, to combat the evils of the Internet and the damages caused by advanced electronic devices. One of the event organizers said: "This will be a mass rally never before seen in the history of Orthodox Jewry in the U.S." The rabbis behind the event say the Internet creates "many serious family-related problems."
Doctors are struggling to keep the 101-year-old Torah sage and Ultra-Orthodox community leader alive.
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, Chairman and Founder of ZAKA, made his comments in an extended opinion his Facebook page.
MK Yisrael Eichler makes comments in response to Livni's condemnation of ultra-orthodox sector.
90% of Israeli Jews celebrate the Pesach Seder.
Rabbi Amsalem admonishes UTJ MK Gafni for recent comments that Haredim should not serve in the IDF.
Move likely motivated by recent IDF-Haredi tensions.
The bill would have the greatest impact on the Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities.
Anglo political party threatens to bow out of municipal council if measures are not taken to prevent hostility between citizens - recommend a dialogue group of influential rabbis.
June 26, 2026 
