Leaders of the rapidly growing haredi community say that forcing seminary students to serve alongside secular Israelis including women risks destroying their identity as religious Jews.
The bill will preserve in law the Rabbinic Committee for Communication's ability to control some 500,000 users of what are known as "kosher cell phones."
The message stated Shas rabbis “have firmly instructed that as of now, with no new law yet established to regulate the status of yeshiva students, no draft orders or summons should be responded to."
The film is showing throughout July and August at theaters in the Lev Cinemas chain and other venues around the country.
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
"In my work, I look at fashion and religiosity and aesthetics and sanctity. I find them fascinating.”
Tomorrow, the Arazim Terminal in northern Jerusalem opens, mainly serving ultra-Orthodox routes but also potentially saving secular residents long trips.
The haredi world is overwhelmingly cut-off from the war reality that “mainstream” Israel is living, purposefully and devastatingly so.
An early discovery was the marked lack of understanding among many rabbis about the mass media, matched by comparative ignorance about religion in a fair number of journalists.
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