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Israel's Treasury Has Become the Haredi School System's ATM, Encouraging Corruption
08 Jun 2024 07:00 GMT
In early 2019, the Israel Tax Authority discovered that an independent education network – a private chain of schools controlled by the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party – had failed to pay taxes on its employees' salary from 2014 to 2018. The …
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Likud dissenters threaten party discipline over haredi draft bill
07 Jun 2024 11:58 GMT
… dodge party discipline on the haredi enlistment issue.
Knesset members Dan … .
There are 63,000 haredi men eligible for the draft … Judaism), which threatened to quit the government if the mass of haredi … contact with a lot of haredi elected officials and with …
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IDF Chief Halevi praises ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion, calls for more Haredi enlistment
07 Jun 2024 09:12 GMT
… draft more eligible ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men of military age, … approximately 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men. After eight months … push to enlist Haredi men.
The enlistment of Haredi students engaged … of religion, as Torah study is a central part of Judaism …
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Best offense is good self-defense: Fighting antisemitism gets physical at Jewish confab
07 Jun 2024 06:30 GMT
… EU institutions to protect European Jews, who were already a … with members of the predominantly Haredi Jewish community in Antwerp, said … the conference.
Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, who works … Israel and the freedom of religion in Europe, singled out …
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Women get a voice in Israel’s vote for chief rabbi. It may not save a deeply unpopular institution.
07 Jun 2024 01:39 GMT
… state functions that intersect with Jewish law in Israel, from … population.
Israel’s Jews largely see Judaism in Orthodox terms, … making clear to Religious Zionists that the Haredi position is not … for the Sephardic chief rabbi is Rabbi Yehuda Deri, brother of …
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US won’t say if it would work with Yair Golan, who denounced haredi Jews
06 Jun 2024 18:11 GMT
… controversial statements about ultra-Orthodox Jews by the incoming chief of … he attacked Israel’s haredi, or ultra-Orthodox Jewish, population, calling them … ’s coalition of conservative and religious parties to official events.
A …
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Haredi minister upbraids national religious for opposing military draft exemptions
06 Jun 2024 16:42 GMT
… ,” the senior United Torah Judaism lawmaker declared during a Jerusalem … of the Religious Zionism party, tweeted a quote from Rabbi Zvi … of Justice invalidated the Haredi draft exemptions as discriminatory … coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we …
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In rare public conversation, Haredi organization leaders of TATYA open up about the community
06 Jun 2024 14:32 GMT
… inside, creating collaboration with Haredi leadership, and providing them … engaging with the mainstream Haredi crowd, through the … communities. "The rabbi is everything in every … significant portion of the Haredi population.
Goldschmidt also addressed …
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Haredi parties announce support for hostage deal
04 Jun 2024 18:18 GMT
… ;s two haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ), announced … on Friday night.
The haredi parties' support is … in response, "The haredi parties' announcement of … Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) and National …
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For Jerusalem to flourish, both secular and traditional Jews must stay
04 Jun 2024 01:06 GMT
… burials” so that every observant Jew “will have to the … This is not new to Judaism – during the Second Temple … secular, traditional, and non-haredi religious Jews.
Now Jews comprise 60% of the city … 30% of Jerusalemites are non-haredi Jews. In less than 30 …