Ultra-Orthodox

In the pink: Israeli films showcase ethnic, LGBT diversity in the haredi community

Together, Pink Lady and Neither Day nor Night cast a light on the highly insular center of the haredi world.

By MORDECHAI BECK
18/05/2025

IDF arrests 36 in overnight operation amid crackdown on draft dogers

Netanyahu seeks to draft 10,500 haredim over two years, or around 5,250 per year.

A year of empty promises: Edelstein talks, but no draft law yet on haredi enlistment

MK Yuli Edelstein has spent a year holding talks on ultra-Orthodox enlistment without delivering a draft law, exposing a gap between his rhetoric and real progress.

By TANI FRANK
09/05/2025

Knesset c'mtee to discuss female soldiers' rights, haredi IDF integration

The session comes as the coalition moves forward with legislation that would regulate exemptions for haredi yeshiva students from mandatory military service.

A historical watershed: The haredi community's response to war

History suggests that when segments of society are perceived as avoiding shared sacrifice during existential threats, the resulting social tensions can persist for generations.

Hasidic sect offers major cash boost to solve matchmaking crisis

Facing a matchmaker shortage, the Hasisdic Gur sect is boosting pay to revive its matchmaking system.

Passover and the price of redemption: The burden of war must be shared by all Jews

Real redemption requires sacrifice: only when every Jew embraces this burden will we truly understand the slavery and freedom in the matzah and the blood and jubilation in the wine.

By KENNETH BRANDER
10/04/2025
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf

A gov't of desecration: Goldknopf’s dance shows Israelis who is really to blame

How in the world can self-identifying Zionist Knesset members in the coalition participate in this injustice?

By MATAN KAHANA
24/03/2025

Israel Katz says 'unilateral' IDF draft letters to haredim have failed

Katz added that it was imperative for the Israeli military to take into account the "protection of the world of the Torah" in Israel.

 MK MOSHE GAFNI, chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, leads a committee meeting last week. ‘Wh

The IDF needs soldiers but Israel is paying yeshivas to dodge the draft

This might have been possible to tolerate before October 7 but definitely not now, at a time when the IDF is missing over 10,000 soldiers to fulfill the missions it already has.

14/03/2025
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