Haredim
Haredi Jews bear the brunt of antisemitic attacks, global report finds
By Yonat Shimron — April 17, 2023
(RNS) — The report from Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League finds the number of physical attacks on Haredi Jews spiked in the US but declined in the UK, Germany, France, Canada and Argentina.
What stabbed Salman Rushdie?
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 16, 2022
(RNS) — This was not only an attack on an author. It was an attack on culture and civilization itself.
Netflix’s ‘My Unorthodox Life’ is an exposé that fails to explain some basic facts
By Avi Shafran — July 14, 2021
(RNS) — Fashion triumphs over fundamentalism. What could be more inspiring?
We should all mourn for the ultra-Orthodox
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 29, 2020
(RNS) — Jew-haters with guns are no longer the greatest threat to Jews. The new enemy is invisible.
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.
Ikea under fire for male-only catalog in Israel
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 16, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) In an effort to appeal to the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jews and their increasingly stringent modesty norms, the niche catalog depicts Orthodox men with side curls and boys wearing yarmulkes in domestic settings — at a table set for a Sabbath meal, in a study with display cases lined with religious books. But not a single woman or girl.
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