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Knesset Member Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of the United Torah Judaism Party, heads to the podium at the Knesset, Dec. 29, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Haredi leader’s ultimatum: IDF draft law or ‘we quit’

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Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of the United Torah Judaism Party (UTJ), said that “if the new recruitment plan isn’t settled, the government will fall apart,” speaking of a haredi conscription law the ultra-Orthodox parties are...
Israel Levkivker, co-founder of Massdom, presents his company at a Bizmax “scalerator” event for haredi tech business leaders at Mortimer House in London on March 20, 2023. Photo by Dudy Braun.

Israel’s haredi economy is the ‘most important factor’ in its future success

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Participants talked shop over coffee and catered meals, exchanged business cards and heard presentations on new companies and the problems they aim to solve during the daylong program. But this gathering of technology entrepreneurs...
Rabbi Shimon Baadani attends a campaign event of the Shas party in Tiberias, Feb. 27, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Shas Party spiritual leader Shimon Baadani dies at 94

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Rabbi Shimon Baadani, the president of the Shas Party’s Council of Torah Sages, died on Wednesday morning at Sheba Medical Center (Tel Hashomer Hospital) in Ramat Gan at the age of 94. Baadani suffered from...
Benjamin Netanyahu during a plenum session in Israel's parliament. Dec. 13, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu: This will be a ‘liberal-nationalist’ government

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Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday rejected criticism that his coalition will pursue a right-wing extremist agenda. During a Knesset plenum, Netanyahu said, “Everyone will live in accordance with their own faith. This will...

Israel’s new coalition shouldn’t write off American Jewry

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It may be that some of the statements emanating from certain partners in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government are more a function of posturing than genuine policy priorities. But even if those expressing them are...
A discussion and a vote on the IDF Pension law, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on February 28, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Conversion bill delayed, but tensions over issues associated with Jewish law remain

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The Knesset, which was to vote to revamp rules regarding Jewish conversion, has delayed the bill until the start of its summer session in May due to the political sensitivity of the issue. The...
Religious Jews inm Jerusalem on Nov. 24, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Study predicts nearly 25 percent of Israelis ultra-Orthodox by 2050

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Nearly one-quarter of Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox by 2050, said a government economic body report, according to a media report published on Wednesday. According to Haaretz, the study’s findings will guide government planning in the coming...
Orthodox Jews examine etrogs for imperfections in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, on Sept. 19, 2021, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

On visible and invisible Jews

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During the middle days of the Sukkot festival, small groups of haredi kids can be seen wandering along the thoroughfares of New York City’s Upper West Side, asking passersby whether they are Jewish. If the answer...
New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams. Credit: Steve Sanchez Photos/Shutterstock.

New York mayoral frontrunner Adams gets high marks from Orthodox community

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Orthodox Jewish backers of New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams, who holds a sizable lead in the city’s Democratic primary as results continue to roll in, cite his law-and-order message as being key...
Israelis comfort one another in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square following the Lag B'Omer stampede in Meron that resulted in the deaths of 45 Jewish worshippers, May 2, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Can a disaster breed Jewish unity or widen the communal breach?

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There is nothing positive to be gleaned from an event that led to the deaths of 45 Jews and injuring of 150 others. The wake of a fatal stampede in the early hours of...