Haredim

'I don’t care about optics': Inside United Hatzalah’s Jerusalem daycare disaster response

United Hatzalah responders treated children, managed a possible toxic threat, and supported parents during a crisis at a Jerusalem daycare.

Israel Police take a woman in for questioning.
Caps with slogans supporting Greenland are on display in a clothing store in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 20, 2026.

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

Kindergaten owner arrested in Romema, Jerusalem, after two babies died due to illegalities. January, 19.

Deadly autonomy: How haredi society's contempt for law has killed its children - opinion

HAREDIM SCUFFLE with police outside Jerusalem’s IDF Recruitment Center, Nov. 12.

IDF cancels ultra-Orthodox Hashmonaim Brigade event for parents in Bnei Brak after haredi riot


Haredi society needs to start pulling its weight as Israel's needs grow - opinion

The national religious public once questioned who was closer—the secular kibbutznik from Mishmar HaEmek or the haredi from Kiryat Sefer. In Israel’s ongoing war, the answer is clear.

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

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

If you’re craving a story that’s both romantic and funny, Matchmaking 2 is a good match.

 NOAM IMBER (left) and OMER NUDELMAN in 'Matchmaking 2.'

'Israel is set to launch an unprecedented attack on Hezbollah and Gaza,' Goldknopf reveals

In his interview, Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf said he doesn't understand what failure is attributed to the Prime Minister on October 7, and supports returning to Gush Katif

 United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022

A-G, labor minister spat continues as daycare subsidies remain unpaid

Labor Minister Yoav Ben-Tzur accused AG Gali Baharav-Miara of undermining democracy by blocking a government decision to extend daycare subsidies to haredi yeshiva students of military eligibility.

 ‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’

Why did hundreds of Orthodox Jerusalem girls suddenly go barefoot?

Jerusalem students remove TOMS shoes and walk barefoot after discovering forbidden Shaatnez, showing swift adherence to religious law.

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Haredim protest near Jerusalem IDF recruitment office

The police said dozens of protesters blocked nearby streets with fences, clashed with police and border police officers insulted them, and attempted to break through fences police had erected.

 Mounted officers at the scene of the protest at the Haturim light rail station in Jerusalem. August 21, 2024.

Smotrich orders haredi daycare subsidies to continue, defying attorney general

Smotrich's decision opens another front in the struggle between the government and the attorney general's office.

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024.

How Jewish liturgical responses evolved from Maimonides to today - opinion

On Tisha B’Av 5784, it is clear that the same phenomenon is bubbling up in the Modern Orthodox community in America and the religious-Zionist community in Israel regarding the events of Oct. 7.

 MEN PRAY on the ground or on low chairs at the Western Wall in a sign of mourning on Tisha B’Av last year.

WATCH: 'Murders, Hitlers, Nazis': Haredi rioters clash with police at IDF recruitment office

At the end of the first recruitment day for haredim, only 8% of recruits showed up to serve at the recruitment offices.

 Haredi demonstrators hold signs while protesting against IDF enlistment, August 5, 2024.

IDF cannot focus on drafting only haredim who work, AG says

Limon's letter addressed the fact that the IDF chose to send out its first three thousand draft orders to haredim who were listed as either working or studying in universities.

 Haredim arrive at the IDF recruitment center in Tel Hashomer to process their draft exemptions.