Mazal Tov to Lapid and Bennett and Goodbye to the Ganavim Haredim!

By LiAmi Lawrence
Published on March 15, 2013

Shame at the Holiest Site in Judaism

By Rabbi John Rosove
Published on August 20, 2012

July 8, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on July 8, 2012

July 6, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on July 6, 2012

Haredim hold prayer protest of draft

Published on June 25, 2012

Thousands of haredi Orthodox held a prayer rally to protest the forced enlistment of yeshiva students.

June 3, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on June 3, 2012

Op-Ed: Respect haredi life while offering criticism

Published on May 30, 2012

A recent article by Israeli journalist Yaron London headlined “We Need Fewer Haredim” and two major pieces in The New York Times about the haredi approach to sex abuse cases highlight the challenge and the need to address serious issues emanating from the haredi world without demonizing an entire community.

Russian-born Israelis and their mistrust of everybody

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 5, 2012

Opinion: Right Is wrong

Published on February 1, 2012

Much has already been written about the horrifying scenes of violence, extremism and chilul Hashem (desecration of God’s name) taking place in Israel these past weeks — indeed these past years; but something more needs to be said.

Itamar Rose - Women’s segregation / Banish darkness

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on December 30, 2011

Where do Israeli haredim stand on haredi violence?

Published on December 30, 2011

The cascade of condemnations started pouring in almost as soon as the Israeli TV report aired. It's subject was an 8-year-old girl harassed by haredi men on the way to her Modern Orthodox girls’ school in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh.

5 comments on the exclusion of women and the denigration of Haredis

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on December 28, 2011

Another Israel-South Africa comparison

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on December 28, 2011

On Israel’s demographic time bomb

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on December 15, 2011

Brooklyn DA claims record number of child sex-abuse charges vs. haredim

Published on November 28, 2011

The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office says it has charged 89 men in the borough's haredi Orthodox communities with child sex abuse -- a threefold increase over a two-year span.

Religious zealots attack “immodest” Jerusalem shops

Published on October 19, 2011

A sign at the ice cream parlor may caution men and women not to lick cones in public, but the warning didn't stop Jewish zealots vandalizing the shop in Jerusalem's main ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.

Haredim riot in Jaffa over excavations

Published on June 16, 2010

Hundreds of haredim rioted in Jaffa, attacking police officers with bricks and rocks, over an archeological dig.