Haredi
The scandal of Hasidic education — a cry from the heart
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 13, 2022
(RNS) — We are reeling from the report on Hasidic education. We needed to hear about this and we need to help repair it.
Ultra-Orthodox unrest threatens Netanyahu re-election hopes
By Josef Federman — January 28, 2021
(AP) — Netanyahu has watched his political partners undermine the country's war against the virus and spark a public backlash that threatens him at the ballot box.
Ikea faces class-action lawsuit in Israel for male-only catalog
By Bob Smietana — March 8, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Religious modesty and the marginalization of women have long been flashpoints in Israel, where many Haredi rabbis have deemed it unholy to portray women’s images in everything from newspapers and government notices to billboards and bus ads.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox women win partial victory in fight to run for office
By Yonat Shimron — August 24, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The demands for representation from a growing number of religious women come amid a seismic shift in Israeli ultra-Orthodox society in which more religious women are entering the professions.
More Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews buck tradition and head for the army, higher ed
By Lauren Markoe — January 17, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — 'My father didn’t serve and neither did my nearly 100 cousins, not that I hold it against them,' said one ultra-Orthodox soldier.
‘Portrait of a Bride’ tells the story of a market in Jewish art
By Yonat Shimron — July 3, 2017
NEW YORK (RNS) Isidor Kaufmann got rich selling paintings of Hasidic Jews to assimilated Jews. Today, Hasidic Jews are snapping up his works.
Israel fractures by faith on politics and society
By Lauren Markoe — March 8, 2016
(RNS) A new survey finds Israelis wrestling with the nation's identity. Most Jews there say it can be both Jewish and democratic. Most Israeli Muslims and Christians disagree.
Breaking a taboo, some ultra-Orthodox Israeli men look for work
By Michele Chabin — January 25, 2016
BNEI BRAK, Israel (RNS) More than half of ultra-Orthodox families live below the poverty line. A new program helps train men who spent their days studying Torah enter the workforce.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox women make uphill battle for parliament
By Michele Chabin — March 3, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) The fact that women in the Haredi sect are running at all is historic and radical for a community where politics -- and decision-making -- are traditionally left to the menfolk.
Israel’s parliament passes law requiring yeshiva students’ army service
By Michele Chabin — March 12, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) The yeshiva student exemptions have created a deep rift in Israel, where nearly all men and women are drafted for up to three years of military service.
Ultra-Orthodox protest military draft law in Jerusalem
By Michele Chabin — March 3, 2014
(RNS) The rally, part protest, part prayer vigil, was organized by the religious and political leadership of the insular haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in Israel, which strongly opposes mandatory conscription on the grounds that it would tear yeshiva students from their full-time religious studies.
Should ultra-Orthodox Jews be able to decide what they’re called?
By Lauren Markoe — February 6, 2014
(RNS) Who would want to be called "ultra" anything? Some Jews known as the "ultra-Orthodox" have come up with a new name, but will it stick?
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