haredim

Beit Shemesh’s Eli Cohen to JTA: ‘When I’m mayor…’

Eli Cohen lost a heated race to become Beit Shemesh’s mayor. Now he’s calling foul.

Hadassa Margolese, fighter for religious tolerance, quits Beit Shemesh

Two years after emerging as one of the faces of resistance to haredi Orthodox domination in her Israeli city, Hadassa Margolese has left because of harsh words from members of her own Modern Orthodox community.

Women of the Wall, shielded by police, raises Torah scroll and blows shofar

Women of the Wall blew a shofar at the back of the Western Wall Plaza and raised a Torah scroll at the plaza’s gate under a heavy police barricade.

Israel

Haredi draft bill passes first Knesset reading

Israel

Haredi students at N.Y. school protest Israel’s proposed draft law

Israel

The Jewish Death Curse

Global

British court accepts N.Y. rabbinical court’s divorce ruling

Israel

Jewish Home’s Bennett attacked by haredi Orthodox at Western Wall

Israel

Palestinian youths held in violent snowball attack

Israel

Palestinian injured by rocks thrown by haredi Orthodox neighbors

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