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A photo accompanying an article in a Belgium newspaper about global deaths due to the coronavirus. Source: Screenshot/The Brussels Times.

Israeli envoy asks Belgian news site to remove photo of masked ultra-Orthodox Jew

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Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Emmanuel Nahshon is accusing a major English-language news outlet in Belgium, The Brussels Times, of anti-Semitism after the paper used an image of an ultra-Orthodox Jew wearing a mask to illustrate...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a press conference regarding the coronavirus crisis on Oct. 5, 2020. Source: Screenshot.

Cuomo threatens to shutter synagogues ahead of meeting with Chassidim on COVID spike

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he will meet with leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community on Tuesday in the hopes of getting them to agree to the enforcement of regulations aimed at...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visitd a school in Jerusalem ahead of the opening of the school year, Aug. 25, 2020. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Haredi leaders accuse Netanyahu of ‘selective punishment’

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A group of haredi  leaders sent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a harshly worded letter on Sunday, warning him that they would not forgive him for casting the haredi community as “spreaders of disease.” The letter, written by...
Citizens are required to wear face masks throughout Israel in order to prevent themselves and others from contracting the coronavirus, particurlarly in the population-concentrated haredi Jewish city of Bnei Brak. April 3, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Can IsraeI’s ‘haredi’ leadership learn from their mistakes made during coronavirus outbreak?

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With some ultra-Orthodox (haredi) communities in Israel having been under complete lockdown due to the high rate of COVID-19 infections, a major controversy has been raging in Israel over whether the leaders of these...
An ultra-Orthodox man and his son shop for goods in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on April 12, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhoods put under lockdown

Several Jerusalem neighborhoods went into full lockdown on Sunday afternoon following a late-night Security Cabinet meeting. The lockdown primarily focuses on ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods with high COVID-19 morbidity rates and will remain in effect until...
Bnei Brak, Israel, on April 3, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

‘Bnei Brak is facing a serious crisis, we need to work quicker’

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“We are currently undertaking delaying actions. We have to increase significantly the number of tests we’re carrying out in Bnei Brak. If this does not happen immediately, we will face a far more severe...
Jewish men pray outside a synagogue in the city of Beitar Illit in Judea and Samaria, on March 29, 2020. Photo by Aharon Krohn/Flash90.

Report: Israel to open quarantine hotels for ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 patients

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Two “quarantine hotels” are being prepared to house ultra-Orthodox coronavirus patients in Israel beginning on Tuesday, Hebrew media reported on Monday. The hotels, which according to Channel 12 will be located in Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh,...
Israeli soldiers in the Neztah Yehuda (“Nahal Haredi”) Battalion complete the final stages of a 40-kilometer march, Feb. 16, 2010. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.

IDF denies cover-up over ultra-Orthodox recruitment numbers

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Senior Israeli military officials involved with the army’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) recruitment program denied on Wednesday that data was falsified to make it appear that recruitment quotas had been met, Ynet reported. The statement came in response to a report...
Israeli soldiers in the Nahal Haredi unit seen during a shooting exercise at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.

Navigating fine line between Torah observance and Israeli military service, politics aside

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This past week an organization called “Forum of Reserve Rabbis,” a group of rabbis who serve as reserve soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, released a new 50-page booklet roughly titled in English, “And...
Religious Jewish soldiers attend a swearing-in ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem as they enter the “Nahal Haredi” unit of the Israel Defense Forces, May 26, 2012. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Creating options and opportunities for haredi youth to serve in the IDF

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A recent political deadlock over the issue of drafting haredi (ultra-Orthodox) youths into the Israel Defense Forces was one of the key reasons that led Israelis to the polls last week for the second time in...