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The Charedi draft: Here we go again
Here we go again, like a broken record, and the sound is dissonant, disappointing, and disgraceful.
Now is the time to support Ultra-Orthodox core-curriculum yeshiva education
Israel’s new political reality won’t help the next generation of Haredi young people—in fact, on the contrary, it will perpetuate a broken system.
Soul food: Aspiring haredi cooks train for restaurant jobs
Five haredi Orthodox men are standing around a large wooden table crowded with bowls of chopped tomato, garlic, carrots and greens, their ritual fringes poking out from under their aprons. Each is wielding a large chef’s knife.
The Israel-Hamas war through Haredi Orthodox eyes
Most Israelis blame the war in Gaza squarely on Hamas, though there are plenty who fault the Israeli government for not pursuing peace more aggressively.
The challenge of defining Charedim
The Iranian nuclear issue and Palestinian peace talks may be dominating the news about Israel nowadays, but if discussions within the Jewish state focused on any social challenge this year, it was the question of how to integrate the Charedi Orthodox population into Israel’s workforce and military.
Israel seals deal ending military exemptions for ultra-Orthodox
Israel clinched a deal on Wednesday to abolish wholesale exemptions from military service for Jewish seminary students, ended a brief crisis that divided the ruling coalition parties.
Police: Women prohibited from saying Kaddish at Western Wall
Women will be prohibited from saying the Mourner\’s Kaddish and other prayers at the Western Wall, Jerusalem police told Women of the Wall.
Lawsuit filed against haredi radio station for excluding women
The religious women\’s organization Kolech filed a class-action lawsuit against a haredi Orthodox radio station for excluding women.