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 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.”
Haredi party is ‘zealous in the service of God’ declares leading rabbi
Only through voting can the haredi community strengthen Judaism in Israel, implied Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager, head of influential hassidic community in Israel.
