Posts Tagged: Shas Party
Western Wall Chaos: Rabbis Protest, Far-Right Activists Clash with Police
i24 News - Jerusalem's Western Wall saw chaos on Wednesday morning as hundreds of Reform Jewish rabbis from the United States joined the Women of...
Netanyahu’s Western Wall Decision Gives the Lie to Democracy Hysteria
JNS.org – It was a story that was over almost before it began. The hysteria over a proposal by the Shas Party to essentially criminalize...
Half-Naked Woman Detained at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
i24 News - A woman entered the prayer area of Jerusalem's Western Wall wearing only her underwear on Sunday, according to police reports. Police officers detained...
Shas Party Spiritual Leader Shimon Baadani Dies at 94
JNS.org - Rabbi Shimon Baadani, the president of the Shas Party’s Council of Torah Sages, died on Wednesday morning at Sheba Medical Center (Tel Hashomer...
Netanyahu Due to Present New Government to President Herzog Before Deadline
i24 News - Israel's prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to declare on Wednesday that he is able to form a government as the deadline...
Israel Poised to Tighten Lockdown as Daily COVID-19 Tally Soars to 6,923
JNS.org - Israel set another negative record on Wednesday, as the Health Ministry pegged the number of new coronavirus cases diagnosed in the span of...
From Knesset Floor, Israeli Coalition Member Says Reform Jews are ‘Not Jewish’
JNS.org - During a debate on the Knesset floor on Wednesday, Knesset member Yinon Azoulay of the Shas Party said that Reform Jews “are not Jewish,”...
Ahead of Upcoming Israeli Elections, Key Rabbis Warn of Shas Party Split
Arutz Sheva - A new twist in the apparently imminent possibility of a split in the hareidi Shas party occurred, as key senior rabbis in...
Israeli Oppositions Parties Say They Want Early Elections
Times of Israel - The ultra-Orthodox Shas party was first out of the gate overnight Monday-Tuesday to call for setting a date for new elections,...
Shas Chairman Says Party Must Leave Committee on Enlistment Reform
Israel Hayom - Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri told haredi radio station Kol Barama that his party has decided it must leave the committee for military...
Influential Sephardi Leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 93, Dies
Despite the prayers of tens of thousands for his recovery, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Haim Ovadia Yosef, 93, passed away on...
The Final Word: Renowned Yiddish Journal Editor Friedenson Dies at 93
Joseph (Yossel) Friedenson carried the title of "rabbi," but his "pulpit" was far wider than any within four walls. Friedenson, longtime editor of the monthly Yiddish-language...
Israel’s Forgotten Corruptions
Journalists claim they are society's watchdogs, but in Israel they have gone to sleep, ignoring the moral and criminal corruptions of yesterday among some of the...
