Haredi news
ITIM organization asks High Court to bar draft evaders from Rabbinate exam benefits
ITIM asked the High Court to bar men from using yeshiva study completed without regularized military status to qualify for Rabbinate certification.
High Court freezes Knesset law stopping arrests of haredi military draft evaders
Bnei Brak set to become Israel's first city with gender-segregated streets, municipality announces
Sharren Haskel resigns as Israel's deputy FM over bill halting arrests of haredi draft dodgers
Haredi, religious MKs up in arms over court's conscription order
Health Minister Yaakov Litzman described the ruling as “the worst and most wretched decision in the history of terrible decisions in the Jewish world.”
Please go to your seat, sir
Finally, El Al staff are forbidden to collaborate with haredi gender segregation.
Shameful day for Israel as it freezes plan for pluralistic prayer site at Kotel
Netanyahu’s office made sure to issue a statement that the cabinet decision on Sunday was not to cancel the deal but was merely to freeze it. This is a sham.
The shot heard around the world
Haredi parties advance proposal to nix egalitarian section of Western Wall
MK Rachel Azaria: "We must not lose US Jewry, and this proposal is a threat to this support.”
I have a new hero this week
Our goal must be to create a society in which my new hero can walk with pride on the streets of his neighborhood – and we must take the necessary steps to create that reality.
Haredi rabbi who threatened IDF general released to house arrest
Iram was indicted last week for threatening IDF Maj.-Gen. Manpower Chief Moti Almoz for his part in drafting haredim into the army.
Haredi parties threaten coalition crisis over construction work on Shabbat
Last August, construction work on infrastructure in Tel Aviv on Saturdays became a severe point of contention between haredi parties United Torah Judaism and Shas and Transport Minister Israel Katz.
Haredi extremist indicted for attacking, threatening senior IDF general
The protesters distributed fliers comparing Almoz to Hitler and military service to Auschwitz.
Temech’s Jerusalem conference helps haredi women open small businesses
The conference was geared toward women who are running businesses or seeking to establish one.