https://www.jewishpress.com The Newspaper for Every Jewish Home. Sun, 11 Aug 2024 11:19:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://www.jewishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/JP-Logo-200.jpg https://www.jewishpress.com 32 32 https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/collective-punishment-ag-terminates-daycare-for-haredi-families-with-draft-dodgers/2024/08/11/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 08:28:26 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702548 "An AG has pity for hapless Nukhba terrorists and is cruel to Jewish toddlers. Let it sink in for a moment. This is Sodom."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/temple-mount-har-habayit/ben-gvir-alienates-allies-by-allowing-jewish-prayer-on-temple-mount/2024/07/24/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:21:11 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=699843 "I remember the days when they shouted at me 'Allah Akbar' and I shouted back at them 'Shema Israel' and was arrested."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/first-draft-notices-for-haredi-recruits-expected-next-week/2024/07/16/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:18:11 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=698748 Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told the Knesset plenum last week that 3,000 haredi soldiers will be drafted to the military by next summer.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/religious-secular-in-israel-israel/signaling-shift-israeli-interior-minister-calls-for-orthodox-flexibility-on-military-service/2024/07/12/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:42:49 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=698161 Arbel was speaking one day after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told lawmakers he would begin drafting yeshiva students next month.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/leader-of-lithuanian-haredim-do-not-report-to-draft-centers/2024/07/11/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:11:05 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=697957 "Do not show up at all at the draft offices, and do not respond to any draft summons, not even the initial summons."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/committee-mks-attack-idfs-hr-chief-on-proposed-haredi-draft/2024/07/10/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 06:14:23 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=697782 Yesh Atid, MK Karine Elharrar-Hartstein asked if separating yeshiva graduates from female soldiers was necessary.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/police-say-they-were-forced-to-use-violence-in-haredi-anti-draft-rally/2024/07/01/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:39:19 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=696442 "It cannot be ignored that a significant part of those lawbreakers were children"]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/9-supreme-court-justices-rule-haredim-must-serve-cut-supports-for-resisting-yeshivas/2024/06/25/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:17:09 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=695657 The practical outcome of Tuesday’s ruling is that the IDF enlistments revert to the original, general Defense Service Law.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/huge-program-to-increase-ultra-orthodox-employment-approved/2024/06/23/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:07:49 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=695473 A budget of 70 million shekels ($18.6 million), was approved.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/left-vs-right/gallant-votes-no-on-coalitions-haredi-conscription-law-gantz-the-author-also-votes-no/2024/06/11/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:59:39 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=694007 If I were Netanyahu, I’d send Gallant home and replace him with Brigadier General Ofer Winter who has just been sent home by Gallant and IDF chief Herzi Halevi. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/revealed-since-october-7-the-idf-rejected-3120-out-of-4000-haredim-asking-to-enlist/2024/06/06/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 05:47:50 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=693327 “Meanwhile, some 66,000 Haredi youths were granted deferment of service because of the ‘their Torah study is their vocation’ stipulation.”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/video-picks/neturei-karta-anti-israel-demonstration-drowned-out-by-the-entire-haredi-community-of-monsey/2024/05/28/ Tue, 28 May 2024 10:07:48 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=691931 A small protest by Neturei Karta outside Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim (Scheiner’s Shul) on Forshay Road in Monsey Monday night sparked a massive counterprotest, with hundreds of Monsey Haredim drowning out the Hamasniks in Jewish garb, The Monsey Scoop reported. The Neturei Karta group protested an appearance at the shul of Yehuda Alon, an IDF […]]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/netanyahu-submits-haredi-draft-bill/2024/05/15/ Wed, 15 May 2024 13:56:02 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=690208 Benny Gantz submitted this bill in the previous Knesset.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/4000-participate-in-memorial-day-ceremony-for-fallen-haredim/2024/05/13/ Mon, 13 May 2024 07:12:19 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=689953 This year, for the first time, the ceremony had to be held in Binyenei Ha'Uma to meet the high demand of Haredim to participate.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/new-specialized-idf-units-and-pre-military-schools-meet-greatly-increased-haredi-recruitment/2024/05/09/ Thu, 09 May 2024 08:56:42 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=689452 "More Haredim can be recruited into the IDF, the state just has to decide that it wants to."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/the-knesset/likud-trio-proposes-new-rewards-based-draft-law-amid-government-stalemate/2024/05/04/ Sat, 04 May 2024 18:45:34 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=688810 Haredi party leaders have expressed openness to the proposed legislation as it does not include forced enlistment quotas.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/draft-of-haredim-gains-momentum-within-community/2024/03/29/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:48:25 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=684085 In most cases, these are students from the Sephardi yeshivot, who are in any case better integrated into the general Israeli society.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/the-courts/israeli-supreme-court-orders-stop-to-yeshivah-funding-for-haredim-required-to-enlist-in-idf/2024/03/28/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 21:00:15 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=684033 The Israeli prime minister had asked for another extension—this time for 30 days—so he could reach a political agreement on the issue]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/photos/haredi-battalion-rushed-to-gaza-during-basic-training-finally-graduated/2024/03/28/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:14:59 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=683880 The Haredi fighters’ war began on the day of Simchat Torah, October 7.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/kkl-jnf-program-takes-jerusalem-haredi-kids-out-into-the-forest/2024/03/26/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:46:18 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=683561 Forest deputies are involved and active residents of the community, both in the construction process and in planning and accompanying the community forest.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/segregated-units-economic-sanctions-in-new-idf-haredi-draft-bill/2024/03/25/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:15:25 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=683427 Netanyahu on Monday informed Likud ministers that the draft bill had to pass, or they wouldn’t have a government.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/the-knesset/haredi-parties-welcome-financial-penalties-on-draft-dodgers-in-draft-bill/2024/03/22/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:51:33 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=683077 Haredim who enlist would get benefits while those who do not would be financially disadvantaged through what is called “negative incentives.”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/religious-secular-in-israel-israel/coalition-freezes-rabbis-bill-to-avoid-government-collapse/2024/03/19/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:52:18 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=682488 The bill aimed to solve the severe shortages of city rabbis in Israel, because dozens of municipalities exist without a rabbi.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/study-community-engagement-motivates-haredim-to-pursue-higher-academic-education/2024/03/18/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:33:10 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=682382 93.8% of Haredi students at The Jerusalem College of Technology described having a positive experience in volunteer programs.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/abraham-today-88-year-old-rabbi-and-his-wife-56-have-a-healthy-baby-boy/2024/03/11/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:45:41 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=681301 “Some will say that since Abraham our forefather, who was blessed with Isaac our forefather at the age of 100, there has not been such a historic birth.”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/elections-news/round-2-haredim-take-back-beit-shemesh-yona-yahav-takes-back-haifa-oded-revivi-loses-efrat/2024/03/11/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:20:34 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=681277 Last Thursday, Degel HaTorah, Agudath Israel, and Shas united to support Greenberg in Beit Shemesh.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/hamas/haredi-idf-soldiers-kill-terrorists-destroy-hamas-infrastructure-in-gaza/2024/03/09/ Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:56:48 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=681102 The fighters of the battalion destroyed anti-tank and observation posts, tunnel shafts and also eliminated terrorists in the area.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/israeli-self-defense-groups-train-haredim-to-protect-their-neighborhoods/2024/02/29/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:12:16 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=679886 So far, some 1,500 Haredi volunteers have joined the project, receiving training from Hashomer HaChadash.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/haredi-father-of-six-from-brooklyn-serving-in-the-war/2024/02/23/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:35:48 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=679025 His wife, the mother of their six children, told him she could see on his face that he wanted to fly to Israel.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/ag-without-extension-of-haredi-exemptions-by-end-of-march-theyre-all-enlisted/2024/02/20/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:22:13 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=678418 Baharav Miara’s latest warpath during a war * cracks in Netanyahu’s coalition wall * Haredim change from militant to military * Rabbi Yochanan and the draft.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/idf-launches-fast-track-haredi-basic-training-program/2024/02/09/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:57:45 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=676826 The army wants to recruit ultra-Orthodox citizens to protect their own communities.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/satmar-delegation-armed-with-shabbat-goods-visits-soldiers-up-north/2024/01/23/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 08:09:36 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=674202 The Satmar Rebbe who gave an order that no soldier will be left hungry.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/construction-labor-crisis-offers-opportunity-for-haredim-to-triple-their-income/2023/12/29/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:34:23 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=670528 One of the most inspired outside-the-box solutions is replacing the missing workers with Israelis.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/satmar-rebbe-condemns-neturei-karta-for-supporting-hamas-murders/2023/11/13/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:32:47 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=663440 “They are walking around the world together with the Arabs, with those who shout without any shame and support the murders."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/haredi-jews-take-up-arms-form-civil-defense-groups/2023/11/08/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:30:25 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=662739 Haredim have realized they need to rely on their own capabilities and resources to defend their communities and families.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/haredi-hesder-yeshiva-rabbi-well-make-gaza-envelope-bloom-again/2023/11/06/ Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:24:29 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=662422 Following the events of October 7, Haredi interest in serving, as well as serving and learning, has reached an unprecedented peak.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/religious-secular-in-israel-israel/gafni-we-are-in-the-midst-of-a-religious-war/2023/10/01/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 06:30:29 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=658024 “I told them – you don’t mean the judicial reform, nor anything similar to that, you are waging a religious war against us.”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/on-campus/southern-israeli-colleges-to-create-haredi-campus/2023/09/26/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:43:31 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=657466 The campus is set to open as soon as possible with a goal of studies beginning October 2024.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/video-picks/avreimel-fried-spends-quality-time-with-haredi-troops-ahead-of-yom-kippur/2023/09/22/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:33:43 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=657131 Hundreds of Haredi soldiers heard words of encouragement and sang along with the great Avreimel Fried.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/haredim-news/mossad-shin-bet-to-recruit-200-haredi-agents/2023/09/20/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:20:42 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=656758 For the first time in their history, both organizations will recruit 200 yeshiva students 21 years of age and older]]>