Rabbi Dov Lando, a towering figure in the Haredi world, took his place at the podium for his annual Ten Days of Repentance ...
(JTA) — Four more alleged members of Lev Tahor, a fringe haredi Orthodox sect, were indicted in New York for conspiring to kidnap two children from their mother and return them to their sect.
Both came with the families of the hostages to visit the homes of rabbis, as well as yeshivas, for the purpose of raising awareness of the hostages in the haredi sector. Haredi analyst Israel ...
Police apprehended an Arab illegal infiltrator on Monday in Jerusalem after he attempted to evade arrest by participating in a demonstration against haredi military conscription. During the ...
A video circulating on social media showed a serious incident of police violence against protesters in Beit Shemesh, in which police beat and kicked Haredi protesters who fell to the ground with ...
For decades haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, politicians have dominated the nation’s religious affairs. Advocates for pluralism are hoping now that the absence of haredim from this coalition will ...
The Finance Ministry informs two Haredi education systems with state funding and huge deficits that they will be cut off from ...
Driven by this worldview, the Haredi parties that are critical to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition have squeezed a promise out of him to pass a law formalizing the de facto draft ...
He further said that, unlike many senior ultra-Orthodox rabbinical leaders and politicians, he would not oppose moves to enlist Haredi Jews who are not enrolled full-time in yeshiva.
Some likened the furious response by young haredi Jews - for whom talk of sex is taboo and reaching out to police is often not an option - to the #MeToo movement. Shayli Tevel weeps as he prays ...
Labor Minister Yoav Ben-Tzur accused AG Gali Baharav-Miara of undermining democracy by blocking a government decision to extend daycare subsidies to haredi yeshiva students of military eligibility.