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AG Orders Ministries to Prepare to Enlist Ultra-Orthodox to IDF
(JNS) - Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in a letter sent on Sunday instructed the legal advisers at the ministries of education and defense to start planning for the recruitment of haredi...
2,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews Volunteer for IDF
JERUSALEM (JNS) - More than 2,000 ultra-Orthodox Israelis have asked to be enlisted in the IDF, in an unprecedented mobilization in the haredi sector.
The volunteer recruitment follows Hamas’s murd...
Facebook Post: I’m Ultra-Orthodox, Chassidic, Chareidi And I’m Normal – Not As The Media Depicts Me
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The following Facebook post, authored by Rabbi Doniel Katz, has been going viral recently. It is written thoughtfully by a person concerned about the image of his community in th...
Ultra-Orthodox Londoners Roll Up Sleeves To Fight Covid
LONDON (AP) — As people across England huddled indoors amid freezing temperatures and a national lockdown, nearly 300 elderly men and women lined up outside a health center in northeast London to be v...
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Reject Criticism, Defy Virus Rules
JERUSALEM (AP) — Mendy Moskowits, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Belz Hassidic sect in Jerusalem, doesn’t understand the uproar toward believers like him.
In recent weeks, ultra-Orthodox Jews have ...
Ultra-Orthodox Unrest Threatens Netanyahu Re-Election Hopes
JERUSALEM (AP) — As he seeks reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a straightforward strategy: Count on the rock-solid support of his ultra-Orthodox political allies and ...
Photos: Israeli Police, Ultra-Orthodox Protesters Clash Over Lockdowns
JERUSALEM (AP) — Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed with Israeli police in two major cities on Sunday, as authorities faced new difficulties in enforcing coronavirus restrictions in the country's re...
Israeli Envoy Asks Belgian News Site To Remove Pandemic Photo Of Ultra-orthodox Jew
BRUSSELS (JNS) - Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Emmanuel Nahshon is accusing a major English-language news outlet in Belgium, The Brussels Times, of anti-Semitism, after the paper used an image of an u...
Cuomo Categorizes COVID Uptick as “Ultra-Orthodox” Problem
NEW YORK (VINnews) - Governor Andrew Cuomo continued throwing the Orthodox Jewish community under the bus, saying that Catholic schools in red and yellow zones are being closed because of an “ultra-Or...
Rabbis Ponder COVID-19 Queries Of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Life
JERUSALEM (AP) — Must an observant Jew who has lost his sense of taste and smell because of COVID-19 recite blessings for food and drink? Can one bend the metal nosepiece of a surgical face mask on th...
Report: Israel To Open Quarantine Hotels For Ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 Patients
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Two “quarantine hotels” are being prepared to house ultra-Orthodox coronavirus patients in Israel beginning on Tuesday, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
The hotels, which accordin...
Israel Confirms Ultra-orthodox Draft Figures Were Inflated
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Thursday it found “serious, systemic failures” in its own reporting that inflated figures on the enlistment of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a hot-button issue in a c...
Jerusalem – New Israeli Election Highlights Tense Ties To Ultra-Orthodox
Jerusalem - The trigger for Israel's unprecedented repeat election touches upon one of the major fault lines in Israeli society — the role of the growing ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in modern life...
Jerusalem – Ultra-Orthodox IDF Enlistment At All Time High
Jerusalem - 3,070 Ultra-Orthodox Israelis enlisted in the IDF in 2017 – the highest ever in the history of the state. The figure represents roughly a third of the 9,700 18 year-old Ultra-Orthodox Isra...
Beit Shemesh, Israel – Beit Shemesh ‘Revolution’ Sees Ultra-Orthodox Ousted From Power
Beit Shemesh, Israel - Dr. Aliza Bloch, a religious-Zionist former high-school principal, on Thursday became the first ever woman mayor of Beit Shemesh, after a neck-and-neck race that was only decide...
Paris – French Police Nab Convict Gangster Disguising Himself As An “Ultra-Orthodox Jew” In Helicopter Prison Break
Paris - Three months after his spectacular helicopter escape from a French prison, police caught one of France's most wanted men in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday, finding the gangster holed up in his home...
Jerusalem – Israeli Court Fines Ultra-Orthodox Radio Station For Banning Women From The Air
Jerusalem - An Israeli court has fined an ultra-orthodox Jewish radio station one million shekels ($280,000) for excluding women from its programmes over a two year period, local media said.
Broadc...
Jerusalem – Thousands Of Ultra-Orthodox Protest Over Shabbat Work On Light Rail
Jerusalem - Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak Friday night after a court allowed work on the light-rail on the Sabbath.
The Tel Aviv District Co...
New York – AP Report: Questioning Real-world Learning At Ultra-Orthodox Schools
New York - At the ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools Pesach Eisen attended in Brooklyn, most of the day was spent studying religious texts with classes taught in Yiddish. One class at the end of the day wa...
Jerusalem – Agreement On Ultra-orthodox Enlistment Might Be On The Horizon
Jerusalem - Senior United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni said the Degel Hatorah party’s MKs “all support” new proposed legislation for haredi (ultra-Orthodox) enlistment, seemingly opening up a split wi...