Taking from Israel and refusing to serve: Why haredim draft refusal is hard to swallow - editorial
Few things are more provocative for non-haredim than haredi rabbis and students gleefully rejecting the government and ...
Dancing on the brink: Haredi draft dodging video triggers national backlash
In it, Rabbi Yaakov Meidan, head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut and a leading rabbi in the national religious camp for ...
The Times of Israel on MSN22h
Daily Briefing Mar. 16: Day 527 – Haredi groups help yeshiva students dodge draft
Political correspondent Sam Sokol discusses the issue of ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions amid current budget debate and his ...
Israel’s Newest Army Recruits: the Ultra-Orthodox
At Israel’s founding in 1948, the new nation’s leaders agreed that ultra-Orthodox men — known as the Haredim, or God-fearing, ...
The Forward on MSN10d
Is ‘Kugel,’ the prequel to ‘Shtisel,’ an antisemite’s dream?
A Haredi Jew, dressed in a black hat and coat with long payot, dangles a diamond necklace in front of his strikingly bulbous ...
The Forward on MSN9d
‘Shtisel’ spin-off ‘Kugel’ richly portrays a diasporic Hasidic community
The creators even hired members of the Antwerp Jewish community, non-actors, to provide authentic local flavor ...
The Times of Israel on MSN11d
‘Do not cooperate’: Nonprofit linked to top Haredi rabbis encourages draft dodging
Haredim are pushing for coalition funds for Vaad HaYeshivot, which tells yeshiva students to ignore the law in favor of 'the ...
The Media Line4d
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Leaders Choose Political Survival Over Draft Fight
By approving the budget, ultra-Orthodox parties protected their coalition role, despite mounting pressure to end IDF exemptions for their community As another round of war in Gaza approaches, the ...