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Facing possible draft and reduced subsidies, Israel’s haredim respond with prayer

Reforms being considered by the Israeli government could dramatically alter the haredi way of life, but the community’s foremost haredi leaders have responded by urging the community to strengthen itself from within through prayer and Torah study — not to take to the streets.

By Ben Sales July 2, 2013 12:17 pm

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In case you forgot, Israel’s Chief Rabbinate opposes Women of the Wall

We’ve got one week to go before the next Women of the Wall service, and the storm of controversy is (predictably) brewing once again. This month, it’s courtesy of Israel’s Chief Rabbinical Council, the Chief Rabbinate’s governing body, which announced today that — after deliberating — it has come to a decision regarding Women of […]

June 3, 2013 4:00 pm

Haredi draft debate spurs Lapid threat to bring down gov’t

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid threatened to bring down the Israeli government if a bill requiring the enlistment of haredi Orthodox men does not include their imprisonment for avoiding conscription.

May 27, 2013 3:29 pm

Israeli panel advances measure on haredi military service

May 23, 2013 3:29 pm

Chabad women blend tradition and fashion

By Gil Shefler May 10, 2013 10:33 am

Antwerp girls school no longer forced to teach Moshe Friedman’s sons

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 7, 2013 1:25 pm

Bolivian officials arrested for trying to extort jailed N.Y. businessman

By Marcy Oster November 28, 2012 2:28 pm

Israeli civil rights group protests ‘anti-haredi’ policy in Modi’in

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 2, 2012 9:57 am

In entering Israeli politics, Yair Lapid eyes force of socioeconomic protests

By Linda Gradstein January 17, 2012 4:47 pm

Haredi protesters slammed over use of Holocaust imagery

By Marcy Oster January 1, 2012 2:09 pm

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