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Supreme Court decision on baby autopsy, Trump’s Greenland texts under scrutiny

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Shifra Jacobs—the top stories, clear and concise.

Caps with slogans supporting Greenland are on display in a clothing store in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 20, 2026.
Jewish men pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, October 1, 2024

The Haredi Debate: Where do we stand?

Police declared the haredi protests illegal.

Haredi protesters block Jerusalem highway in protest against draft-dodger arrest orders

 Ultra orthodox Jewish men protest at construction site in Yehud, claiming the construction site is on Jewish graves, on May 27, 2025.

Haredi Jews protest construction site over alleged ancient burial ground


This week in Jerusalem:

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

The Beit Yisrael neighborhood: Shopping into the night.

WATCH: Police suppress Haredi draft protest with skunk water, force

Police have employed skunk water and other physical methods to disperse the crowds and have arrested at least 25 men so far.

Ultra-Orthodox protestors of the draft are sprayed with water canons in Bnei Brak

Haredi soldier wins NIS 500k in suit against extremist haredi harassers

Radical elements in the Haredi community have waged a vitriolic campaign of incitement and harassment against haredi IDF officers in the past few years.

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Leader of Haredi world Rabbi Shteinman released from hospital

Breaking news

WATCH: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox take to the streets to protest IDF draft

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox men blocked main traffic arteries to protest the arrest of religious men who defied draft warrants by the IDF.

Police arrest a haredi man protesting against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox into the IDF, October 2017

New IDF directorate established to increase numbers of haredi enlistees

“Whoever wants to learn Torah should continue to do so, we don’t want to carry out belligerent operations here, we want to help those interested in serving but who don’t have the right information."

IDF soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion are seen during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem

Hasidic men aboard flight cover Drew Barrymore film with blankets

The movie in question was the 2007 Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore film Music and Lyrics.

Drew Barrymore

Haredi leadership furious over police behavior during enlistment demonstration

Video footage emerged of police personnel dragging haredi men by their peot, or sidelocks, shoving them to the ground seemingly unprovoked.

Israeli police breaking up an ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem, September 17, 2017.

Shas, UTJ lawmakers fight to prevent court from killing haredi military exemption

The newest development in the crisis that ensued after the High Court's decision to make Israel draft a new law or else draft all the haredim.

Haredi man and IDF soldiers in Jerusalem.

Haredi conscription order won't change anything, because PM has chosen sides

Netanyahu has been on the haredim's side all along, so why does everyone think that the new High Court ruling would suddenly cause the government to collapse?

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