Haredim & Hassidim

“The soldiers of Hetz company are proving it is possible to serve in IDF combat brigades without compromising on a hareidi way of life.”

Here’s a good reason to like your new mayor: he, or, rather, his police dept., doesn’t fine you as much as it used to.

“Meanwhile, some 66,000 Haredi youths were granted deferment of service because of the ‘their Torah study is their vocation’ stipulation.”

“Given the lessons of the past ... the expectation that the new draft arrangement would bring about a real change ... is nothing more than wishful thinking at best."

The community built 15 buildings including a shul and a yeshiva.

The commander of the Zichron Yaacov police station wrote to the prosecution that Berland's followers knew about the location of his house arrest and arrived there even before his release.

They obviously meant to write 'menacing hordes,' which is both more comprehensible and more insulting. But wait, there's more.

“The Holy One has not always protected us – not on European land, and not on Ukrainian land . . . Enough Jewish blood has been spilled in Europe."

The MDA sampling teams sitting inside the container are protected by a high pressure air system that pushes out the air and maintains a fully sterile environment inside.

A whopping 63% support making Ben Gvir a minister.

93.8% of Haredi students at The Jerusalem College of Technology described having a positive experience in volunteer programs.

Rabbi Kanievsky stressed that the vaccines are "siata d'shmaya" (help from Heaven).

Coalition members want things to start moving in the right direction.

Moshe Leon didn't really know he was going to run for mayor of Jerusalem until the last minute.

Gafni demanded that Netanyahu resolve the Haredi yeshivas' funding issue as soon as possible, but he did not receive satisfying answers.

"She could not recall her children's names. We called the police and they took her for questioning. It turned out this was her second vote."

Yedioth quotes MK Maklev as saying that at the current situation the IEC incurs a 15% loss in serving Haredi customers, and perhaps using that amount to offset the regular loss would eventually benefit everybody.

Four Orthodox Jews in North London were attacked by a young British man who yelled 'heil Hitler' and threw gas canisters at them from a van.

Rabbis from the “Eidat Haredim” stream of ultra-orthodox Judaism have put their foot down and their hands in their pockets over extremist Haredim violence...

As Samsung learned the hard way with its infamous Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, the lithium-ion battery inside the spiritually corrupting smartphone can cause a physically corrupting explosion.

Forcing the Haredim to do time in yeshiva until they turn 26 if they wish to avoid the draft is not helping anybody.

"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."

"We need to do something wise here to prevent another fire," Gamzu said.

120 years later, this major part of Jewish history has been downgraded to a miscellaneous religious facility in Chinatown…

Colel Chabad and IFCJ have made sure thousands of Israelis will celebrate Passover with good food this year.

The Rabbi told his followers to go in and clean up Joseph's Tomb overnight after the Arabs destroyed it again.

Hundreds of Haredi soldiers heard words of encouragement and sang along with the great Avreimel Fried.

Kiryat Arba-Hebron Chief Rabbi Dov Lior is reportedly stepping down and moving to the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Orot.

Haredi MK Gafni has long embraced the tactic of resisting unfavorable registration by throwing a tantrum.

The campus is set to open as soon as possible with a goal of studies beginning October 2024.