Nahal Haredi and the Shahar program prove that Haredim can be integrated into Israel's economy and wider society through the army.
by Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat 1 comments
N.Y. Haredim are up in arms about an upcoming N.Y.C. Health Department vote that would regulate direct oral suction during circumcision.
by Debra Nussbaum Cohen 0 commentsZionism has fragmented, leaving young Israelis without a unifying national ideology that binds them to their state.
by Rami Livni 0 comments
PM: More thorough approach needed to integrate Haredim, Israeli Arabs into national service; Mofaz: PM is avoiding issue of injustice, illegality of Haredi draft exemption.
by Jonathan Lis and Yair Ettinger 1 comments
The committee on the replacement of the Tal Law on Haredi draft exemptions, headed by Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner, could have drafted a report with a significant impact if it had included the broadest views shared by its members.
by Yair Ettinger 0 comments
Plesner Committee recommends 80% of draft-age ultra-Orthodox be enlisted by 2016; no specific rules for Israeli Arab enlistment.
by Jonathan Lis 2 comments
The bad news for those who think the ultra-orthodox can be won over with integration-lite is that a yeshiva education doesn’t do it.
by David Rosenberg 0 comments
What was the prime minister thinking six weeks ago when he announced the formation of a committee to find a replacement for the Tal Law that exempts the ultra-Orthodox from military service?
by Yossi Verter 0 comments
Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi under the British Mandate, and leader of the Jews of Palestine in the early 20th century.
by Nir Hasson and Yair Ettinger 6 comments
A fight over who will succeed an ailing leader is being fought in print – and threatens to split a community.
by Yair Ettinger 1 comments
The committee tasked with drafting a replacement to the Tal Law are set to recommend that the requirement that members of Israeli minorities carry out national service be implemented gradually.
by Jonathan Lis and Jack Khoury 0 comments
Orthodox rabbis, ministers and MKs hold 'emergency meeting' about foiling the state's plan, while some 50 Conservative and Reform activists gathered outside to urge it forward.
by Yair Ettinger 0 commentsLiberal Israelis must replace timid political correctness with an attitude of civilized disdain, and expose the incoherence of a modern theocratic state.
by Carlo Strenger 1 commentsReform Jews do not follow all the tenets of Judaism, which makes their practice a separate religion. That doesn't mean, however, that they don't deserve equality under the law.
by Yair Assulin 0 comments
Dozens of Haredim demonstrate in Jerusalem, calling for a ban on vehicular movement on Shabbat.
by Nir Hasson and Haaretz 8 comments
