It was in the middle of Sukkot, that loveliest of holidays in Israel, set aside for family time, when even the most devout and serious yeshiva men can be seen with their entire families visiting the zoo or traipsing through nature trails in Galilee.
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.
Israel said on Sunday that Hamas militants had abducted three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, warning of \”serious consequences\” as it pressed on with a search and detained dozens of Palestinians.
Israeli forces are searching for three Jewish teenagers who went missing in the West Bank late on Thursday, the military said on Friday.
Tis the graduation season, but unlike most 17-year-olds wrapping up their high school careers in recent days and weeks, Daniel Schwartz knows exactly what he wants to do with his life.
At Israeli weddings, gifts of china, silver and art are not welcome. Guests are expected to bring their checkbooks and contribute to a young couple’s purchase of their first home, often bought with substantial help from the newlyweds’ parents.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will bring a vote on extending a law that allows yeshiva students to delay their military service directly to the Knesset floor, bypassing his Cabinet.
A West Bank yeshiva high school whose students have been identified as being involved in attacks against Palestinians has been ordered shut down.
The Wall Street Journal recently published a column about ultra-Orthodox (Charedi) Jews in Israel who do not work for a living. Sixty-five percent of ultra-Orthodox men ages 35-54 do not go to work. Instead, they study Torah while demanding increasing amounts of money from the taxes paid by Israelis who work for a living. The author of the column, Evan R. Goldstein, wrote: “Voluntary unemployment has become the dominant lifestyle choice for [Charedi] men. And even if there was a desire to work, [Charedi] schools leave students unprepared to function in a modern economy.”
An Israeli chief rabbi told university students that stipends for yeshiva students should also apply to them.
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