haredim

Wartime Purim unity bridges secular-religious divides

Kesher Yehudi hosts unlikely encounter between haredi and secular Israeli families amid hostage crisis.

By TANIA SHALOM MICHAELIAN
29/03/2024

Can Israel's public image be salvaged?

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Sarah Ben-Nun.

Did Israel's A-G open Pandora's box on IDF haredi draft?

The attorney general, possibly with good intentions, may have wrecked the idea of a real court deadline with teeth that can get anyone to make hard choices on this fateful issue.

Israeli gov't in crisis as Netanyahu, haredi parties fail to reach IDF draft deal

Benny Gantz threatened earlier this week to leave the government if an unsatisfactory conscription bill passes into law.

Israeli rabbi: Torah students cannot serve in IDF, they are protecting soldiers

"We must not, God forbid, take them [the haredi Yeshiva students who do not study Torah all day to the army because they also pray and they also study,” the Rabbi said. 

Gov’t to vote on new Haredi conscription plan as coalition teeters

Benny Gantz and some Likud members have expressed strong opposition to the proposed plan.

25/03/2024
 An Israeli soldier prays next to an ultra orthodox Jewish man at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem

Gallant to oppose Netanyahu's bill to exempt ultra-Orthodox from IDF service

Netanyahu has been rumored to be ready to extend the Haredi exemption from IDF and national service in practice while trying to make some symbolic gesture toward greater service.

Director Benny Fredman talks about his movie about haredim, 'Home'

Despite of his pessimism about the fate of anyone who dares to open a store like his, he said firmly that Home is not an anti-haredi movie.

Post-October 7: What does a haredi IDF draft look like?

Pre-October 7, draft exemptions were thought to be a solution to the haredi unemployment rate.

16/03/2024
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