Haredi news
A-G to High Court: Gov’t has not adopted economic sanctions plan against haredi draft dodgers
The Attorney-General warned the High Court that the government failed to plan for revoking benefits from Haredi draft evaders, despite data showing financial sanctions increased enlistment rates.
Supreme Court decision on baby autopsy, Trump’s Greenland texts under scrutiny
The Haredi Debate: Where do we stand?
Haredi protesters block Jerusalem highway in protest against draft-dodger arrest orders
At least 6 Americans, including 3 teens, among victims in Meron disaster
Yosef Amram Tauber, 19, of Monsey, was a student at the Brisk yeshiva. A relative said that he left for Israel to attend the yeshiva “for the first time last week.”
Haredi protests in Jerusalem continue against light rail construction
The protesters, numbering in the hundreds, at Bar Ilan Junction, burned garbage cans and blocked the road, as well as damaged passing vehicles and the current construction areas of the light rail.
There needs to be a crackdown on the haredi sector
What is happening in Israel right now with the Haredi sector is nothing short of a disaster.
Police arrive in Bnei Brak to find vandals, equipped to disperse crowd
The residents protesting the police were ultra-Orthodox extremists belonging to teh Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty. The protesters numbered in the dozens.
Journalist attacked by haredi mob in Mea She'arim
When he left his car to retrieve the camera tripod, he was bombarded by stones and trash bags, as well as other objects. He has sustained multiple injuries.
Satmar wedding ‘disrespectful, deceitful, illegal,’ says NY Gov. Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York City should do ‘robust investigation’ of incident and ‘bring the full consequence of legal action to bear.’
What's to be done on Haredi civil disobedience?
How do you ladies suggest the government should deal with haredi civil disobedience?
You gotta love the haredim
In the US haredim do not control who can get married and divorced, and where you can be buried.
The endless struggle within a wonderful people
In the Haredi world, you do what your rabbi tells you to do.
Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau, famed Bnei Brak leader, dies at 84
Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau eulogized Landau calling him a “righteous person who devoted his whole life to the public.”