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Missing yeshiva students

A non-denominational yeshiva opens in Scotland, inspired by models in US and Israel

The founders of Azara, which is based for the summer in Edinburgh, hope to offer a pluralist space for intensive study of Talmud and other holy books.

|ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
A young ultra orthodox Jewish man seen reading a newspaper in between studies at the Yeshiva Ateret Israel, in Jerusalem, September 2, 2013
Yeshiva students pray in a synagogue in the Sydney suburb of Bondi

High Court demands state explain why full time yeshiva students get child-care subsidies

IRAC’s petition requests that the subsidy be granted only to families in which both parents are working and explicitly not to the families of full time yeshiva students.

|ByJEREMY SHARON
Crime scene [illustrative]

Shin Bet: Jaffa man arrested after throwing stun grenade at yeshiva

Israel's Security Agency said they had arrested the man on September 8, and admitted that the attacks were against the "Judaization of Jaffa."

|ByBEN HARTMAN
Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel (L-R).

‘Our boys’

A look back a year after the kidnapping of the three yeshiva students, uniting the nation in grief.

|ByLAURA KELLY

A time for unity

Three prizes for unity will be presented in a ceremony hosted by President Rivlin to acknowledge the unity of the nation after the kidnapping of the three boys last summer.

JUNE 1, 2015
ByAVI FRAENKEL, RACHELLI FRAENKEL, URI YIFRACH, OFIR SHAER
Unity Day banners commemorating Eyal Ifrach, Gil-ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel.

‘Post’ names Fraenkel one of year’s ‘top 50’ Jews

Rachelle Sprecher Fraenkel suffered a huge loss when her teen son Naftali was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas in June 2014.

MAY 18, 2015
Rachelle Sprecher Fraenkel

‘Those three boys saved the nation’

Thousands gather in ]erusalem to remember Naftali, Eyal and Gil-Ad 30 days after their deaths.

JULY 30, 2014
Bat-Galim Shaer, mother of Gil-Ad Shaer, at the memorial service.

Think Again: The anti-Eyal, Gil-Ad and Naftali

During those 18 days, we learned that it is better to live in a country where Jews love one another and look for the good in their fellow Jews.

JULY 10, 2014
Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel (L-R).

Tradition Today: When tragedy strikes

We should realize these tragic events reflect human disobedience of God, and cause God sorrow and regret.

JULY 10, 2014
A Jewish youth prays during the joint funeral of three Israeli teens who were abducted and killed in the occupied West Bank, in the Israeli city of Modi'in

Zionism’s challenge

Abu Khdeir’s horrific murder should serve as a reminder to us of the dangers of placing “Jewish” before democratic.

JULY 7, 2014
Protest in Jerusalem calling for revenge after three missing teens found dead

My Word: Equivalent to what?

Along with most of the country, I had spent the previous 18 days consumed with worry for the fate of three teenagers I’d never met.

JULY 3, 2014
The Fraenkel family at the funeral for their slain son Naftali, July 1, 2014.

Sinai Today: ‘Walking in the valley of the shadow of death’

Rabbi Akiva, Daniel Pearl and our three boys.

JULY 3, 2014
ByCHIEF RABBI WARREN GOLDSTEIN
Funeral for the three kidnapped Israeli teens, July 1, 2014.

The national unity myth

Unless dramatic changes are made in the political and diplomatic conduct, more kidnappings and murders are bound to take place.

JULY 3, 2014
Vigil for Naftali, Eyal and Gil-Ad

Know Comment: Five minutes

Global double standards, callousness and hypocrisy regarding Israel were on full display this week.

JULY 3, 2014
US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry.

The POSTman Knocks Twice: A time to keep silent

It is the worst time to make decisions. Anger bubbles up. Anger takes over. Now is not the time to make fateful decisions.

JULY 3, 2014
Candles placed next to a picture of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed, in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square June 30, 2014.