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Satmar HQ condemns Mamdani for vetoing no protest buffer zones around educational facilities

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani vetoes bill aimed at protecting educational institutions from protests, citing concerns over free speech and constitutional rights.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives to deliver his 100 Days Address, a speech dedicated to outlining the progress made on his core campaign promises since taking office, in Queens, New York City, U.S., April 12, 2026.
 Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

'May God kill, destroy the judges,' Yitzhak Yosef denounces ruling restricting Western Wall prayers

YOUNG WOMEN study at Jerusalem’s Midreshet Lindenbaum

Staying put: Realizing a modern Exodus amid times of challenge - opinion

Sari Kroizer.

After October 7, this haredi woman refuses to stand apart from Israeli society


'We failed, made a mistake' on judicial reform, haredi draft bill deal, UTJ's Goldknopf says

UTJ was told to support the judicial reform as it would allow for a "basic law of Torah study," and another law as an override clause, Yitzhak Goldknopf claimed in an interview with Kikar HaShabbat.

 Yitzhak Goldknopf at a United Torah Judaism meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, May 19, 2025.

Deri and Lapid clash over IDF draft law, sanctions on ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students

Aryeh Deri responded to the Attorney-General's discussion on the High Court of Justice consideration over the draft law and the plan to toughen sanctions against yeshiva students who don't enlist.

A view of the Shas party offices in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025

IDF soldiers killed due to yeshivas 'neglecting Torah study', former chief rabbi claims

Yitzhak Yosef condoled the families of the five soldiers killed in Gaza's Beit Hanun in an open letter, calling for increased Torah study, implicitly denouncing haredi draft attempts.

 Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

School vouchers would expand nationwide under federal proposal cheered by Orthodox groups

The proposal — which would create scholarships of up to $5,000 per student — marks the farthest that proponents of school vouchers have ever gotten toward expanding school vouchers nationwide.

 A yeshiva school bus drives through Broolyn on Sept. 12, 2022.

NY state budget weakens oversight over yeshiva learning in blow to secular education advocates

The outcome represents a dramatic victory for the state’s Hasidic leaders.

 An Orthodox Jewish boy walks by a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City, April 9, 2019.

Justice Kagan speculates about publicly funded yeshivas

Kagan’s line of questioning comes as New York recently closed multiple yeshivas that were not abiding by a state law requiring all schools to adequately teach basic secular subjects.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan participates in a discussion at George Washington University Law School, in Washington, DC. on Sept. 13, 2016

Katz rejects proposal to extend yeshiva students’ military service

Katz denied the proposal to extend service by four months, opting to keep the current term of one year and five months.

 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

Magen David Adom warns of blood shortage in Israel, calls for public donors

Donation stations will be deployed across Israel for the next two weeks for public donors.

 Magen David Adom Motorcycles

"No being can stand in their presence": Torah scroll dedicated in memory of Binyamin Achimeir z”l


Netanyahu’s English saves his coalition? Rabbis drop draft ultimatum in private call

By Sunday evening, an understanding was reached: the ultra-Orthodox factions would not issue an ultimatum over the draft law at this time.

 Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, pictured in 2014.