Posts Tagged: Haredi
Conscription Law Heads to Final Vote in Knesset Amid Political Showdown
i24 News - Israel's conscription law is reaching its final stretch as the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is expected to complete its discussions this...
Just How Useful are the ‘Useful Idiots’?
JNS.org - Ever since political Zionism emerged at the end of the 19th century as a movement to create and sustain a Jewish state in...
Sabotaging Saudi-Israeli Peace
JNS.org - New York Times columnist Tom Friedman and others on the far-left are seeking to scuttle normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. They will not...
Tour Guide School May Help Solve the Israeli-Arab Riddle
JNS.org - Tour guide school in Israel, as any graduate will agree, is quite an ordeal. It requires 60 full-day tours, over 200 hours of...
Gerontocracy
Old age, Senior Citizens, Geriatrics are all rather pejorative terms for people who have reached a certain age or stage in their lives. Like me! Shakespeare’s...
Internet Use Among Haredi Jews in Israel More Than Doubled Since 2008, Survey Finds
The percentage of Haredi Jews in Israel using the internet has grown more than two-fold since 2008, though online access for the community's youth remains...
British Judge Rules Jewish Disabled Teenager’s Human Rights Violated by Plan for Care in Non-Jewish Home
A British judge has ruled that the human rights of a disabled Jewish teenager were violated when he was offered care in a non-Jewish residential...
Reports Indicate Israeli Election Not Free From Irregularities
Reports emerged late on Tuesday of several allegations of voter fraud in Israel's general election that saw Prime Minister Netanyahu emerge as a clear victor. Some...
Report: Netanyahu to Offer Yesh Atid, Jewish Home Place in Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to form a coalition government with the Yesh Atid and Jewish Home parties, the Israel daily Maariv reported...
Menachem Elon and Theocracy
One of the greatest of Jewish jurists, Menachem Elon, former Supreme Court Judge in Israel, died this week. He was steeped in the Talmudic...
Orthodox Jews in the IDF are a Blessing for Israel
The other day I received an email from a friend in Canada to which he attached an article written last week by a Nathan Hersh...
Jew Versus Jew
There's a cute joke doing the rounds in Israel at the moment that my friend, Edward Cohen, sent me. It's an adaptation of a...
Violence to Preserve Judaism, or Diversity of Opinion?
Various non-mainstream Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) communities in Israel and in the U.S. are clashing with western values embraced by less religious Jews. Daily reports...
