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
Haredim protest in Jerusalem over proposed draft law
The demonstrators blocked the entrance to the city for close to two hours until Border Police units moved in to disperse the protestors using water cannons and skunk sprays.
State agrees to cancel gender-separate tour guide courses for Haredim
“This is the beginning of this struggle, and we have our first victory in hand,” said Israeli Women’s Network director Michal Gera Margaliot.
Haredi population tops one million
There is a record low in the poverty rate for the Haredi sector, having diminished from 58% in 2005, reflecting increased integration of Haredi men and women into the work force in recent years.
New civil service recruits will be Haredi under new guidlines
Some seven percent of the workforce is Haredi, but although no hard statistics are available, it is thought that the representation of Haredim in the civil service is exceedingly low.
Who will lead the Haredim?
The future of Haredim after the passing of Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman.
OBITUARY: Rabbi Shteinman, Haredi 'leader of the generation,' dies at 104
Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman was the long-time leader of the non-Hassidic Ashkenazi Haredi community.
London Orthodox teacher fired for living with boyfriend wins legal case
Zelda de Groen told a tribunal that school managers subjected her to a “humiliating” hour-long interview.
Haredi rabbi bans new NIS 50 banknote featuring poet who married a non-Jew
Rabbi Ben Tzion Motzpi, a respected and highly conservative Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) rabbi from the Sephardi community, gave these rulings recently in response to questions submitted to his website.
The naked truth
As elections approach, anything can happen.
Misjudging their own power
If Litzman carries out his threat to resign due to Israel Railways work on Shabbat, it will be yet another example of the failure of the haredi parties to realize the limits of their own power.
