Haredi Jews
Haredi Jewish women are bucking the patriarchal stereotype of their community
By Michal Raucher — May 17, 2021
(The Conversation) — Women are increasingly making reproductive decisions and working outside the home.
The growing Jewish divide
By Mark Silk — May 14, 2021
(RNS) — Growth is occurring at both the low and the ultra ends of the religious Jewish spectrum.
Who are the ‘evil doers’ in ‘Shtisel’?
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 3, 2021
(RNS) — Why the show's Uncle Nuchem — and many Haredi Jews — hold an anti-Zionist political theory, and why it is wrong.
Israeli watchdog to investigate deadly festival stampede
By Associated Press — May 3, 2021
(AP) — The tragedy brought renewed attention to Israel's ultra-Orthodox community, where many have flouted coronavirus restrictions over the past year.
I love all Jews — even the ones I don’t like
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 13, 2021
(RNS) — We Jews are a small people, but we are a large family.
New Haredi men’s magazine touts cars, whiskey for the Torah study set
By Avi Shafran — March 11, 2021
(RNS) — Even in times of plenty and even for the financially fortunate, there is dignity in modesty.
In voting, Orthodox Jews are looking more like evangelicals
By Yonat Shimron — February 19, 2021
(RNS) — American Jews are liberal and vote Democratic; but among them, Orthodox Jews are increasingly voting Republican and spouting familiar conspiracy theories.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox reject criticism, defy virus rules
By Ilan Ben Zion — February 10, 2021
JERUSALEM (AP) — On Tuesday night, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protested lockdown restrictions, set dumpsters on fire, and faced off with police officers in Jerusalem.
Jewish health system accused of vaccine violations is a case of solidarity gone wrong
By Brad Hirschfield — December 28, 2020
(RNS) — The real moral hazard they've fallen into is building a faith identity or communal solidarity on otherness, victimhood or grievance.
New York’s COVID-19 rules aren’t anti-Jewish. They show ignorance of Orthodox Judaism
By Avi Shafran — October 30, 2020
(RNS) — No one thinks that New York's leaders harbor any antipathy to the Jewish community. What the rules betray is their ignorance of exactly what prayer and religious education mean to Orthodox Jews.
Second coronavirus lockdown in Israel frustrates many religious Jews’ plans for High Holidays
By Michele Chabin — September 16, 2020
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The three-week shutdown is timed not only to take advantage of the slow pace of the High Holiday period, but is also an acknowledgment that crowded religious institutions were a coronavirus breeding ground this past winter.
Why some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities defy coronavirus restrictions
By Joyce Dalsheim — April 27, 2020
(The Conversation) — Armed men in uniform closing down synagogues spurs collective memories of Tsarist Russia and later in western Europe.
Warning: Your piety might be dangerous to your health
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 31, 2020
(RNS) — Religion should be making the world better. Get with the program, people.
Israeli court fails to stop city concert that barred men and women sitting together
By Bob Smietana — August 16, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — An Israeli city wanted to ban men and women from sitting together at a publicly funded concert aimed at an ultra-Orthodox audience. Women's advocates said the concert violated anti-discrimination laws. Israel's high court agreed, but the ruling came too late to stop the concert.
What Israel’s new election reveals about the struggle over Jewishness
By Joyce Dalsheim — May 30, 2019
(The Conversation) — As Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews become more numerous, and powerful, many politicians are capitalizing on anti-religious sentiment among secular Jews, including calling on Haredim to submit to the draft.
