Haredim women

Most haredi IDF recruits had already left the community before enlisting - report

A new report shows most haredi men who enlist in the IDF had already left the ultra-Orthodox community, challenging claims that the army triggers their exit.

 A haredi man and an IDF soldier pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024
 NOAM IMBER (left) and OMER NUDELMAN in 'Matchmaking 2.'

Love, laughter, and high-stakes Haredi dating in 'Matchmaking 2' - review

 Haredi woman in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, March 25, 2024.

'Speak quietly': Ashdod rabbis call for restrictive rules for women on public transport

Turbo Digital Founder and CEO Shulamit Segal-Zlotsky.

Amid global turbulence, Shulamit Segal-Zlotsky is revolutionizing fundraising for NGOs


Ex-haredi girl who received unnecessary psychiatric pills commits suicide

Chaya Weller, a former member of the extremist Satmar hasidic sect, who exposed her experience of being drugged by her parents, ended her life at the age of 22 years old.

Orthodox Jews of the Satmar Hasidim celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in the village of Kiryas Joel, New York

Haredim deface ads with Orly Levy-Abecassis's picture

The defaced pictures appeared next to pictures of Amir Peretz and Itzik Shmuli, but only Levy-Abecassis's pictures were defaced.

Defaced Labor ads without the image of Orly Levy Abecassis

The unorthodox credo of modest fashion icon Devora Golan

“Modesty doesn’t have to equal ugly or boring,” Golan’s Instagram tagline reads.

DEVORA GOLAN ‘could give a whole shiur on the topic of looking one’s best.’

Police investigating Israeli baby trafficking case involving rabbi's wife

The rabbi's wife served as the guardian of a young Haredi woman who was in advanced pregnancy at the time.

A woman with her baby (illustrative)

Haredi social activist set to become second ever female haredi MK

Yankelevich has taken a different path however, and decided to seek elected office outside of the constraints of the haredi system.

Omer Yankelevich

The mikveh monologues

DR. ELLA KANNER: Moving the mikveh into the public discourse.

Haredi sector following the current trend of communal office spaces

Haredi coworking offices are either for men only, or have a completely separate area for women.

AT AMPERSAND in Bnei Brak (above and bottom right).

Women and art in Jerusalem

Studia fuses color and community

A group of Studia artists visit the Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art at Hechal Shlomo, where several pieces of their art are on exhibit: (Back row from left) Gila Elyashar-Stocklisky, Malka Schallheim, Menucha Yankelevitch and Michal Halevy; (front row from left) Hanna Salmon, Haya White and Etty Barcla

Court rules UTJ must let women run for office

"This is an important step on the historic path on the way to integrating women in politics and preventing all parties from submitting lists that do not include women."

Haredi men gather in Jerusalem for the funeral of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach

An all-female Orthodox ambulance corps gets a film of its own

“93Queen,” Orthodox filmmaker Paula Eiselt’s big-screen debut, documents one woman’s attempt to create an all-female version of Hatzalah with only strictly observant Orthodox members.

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