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haredim
Survey shows broad dissatisfaction with Israeli religious policy
Jewish Journal
September 15, 2015
Secular and haredi Orthodox Israelis differ on many things, but there’s one thing both sides agree on: When it comes to religious affairs, the government is failing.
For Hasidic Jew who consults for Google, no college degree required
Jewish Journal
September 1, 2015
When Issamar Ginzberg enters his Jerusalem office on a sweltering summer day, he’s wearing a long black coat tied at the waist and a black hat. His long, scraggly beard and sidecurls, or payos, offer no relief from the heat.
A year of haredim taking to Jerusalem’s streets
Jewish Journal
March 3, 2014
Since last spring, mass gatherings of haredi Israelis in Jerusalem have punctuated Israel’s news cycle.
Haredim hold prayer protest of draft
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2012
Thousands of haredi Orthodox held a prayer rally to protest the forced enlistment of yeshiva students.
Right Is wrong
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2012
Much has already been written about the horrifying scenes of violence, extremism and chilul Hashem (desecration of God’s name) taking place in Israel these past weeks — indeed these past years; but something more needs to be said.
Where do Israeli haredim stand on haredi violence?
Jewish Journal
December 30, 2011
The cascade of condemnations started pouring in almost as soon as the Israeli TV report aired. It\’s subject was an 8-year-old girl harassed by haredi men on the way to her Modern Orthodox girls’ school in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh.
Brooklyn DA claims record number of child sex-abuse charges vs. haredim
Jewish Journal
November 28, 2011
The Brooklyn District Attorney\’s Office says it has charged 89 men in the borough\’s haredi Orthodox communities with child sex abuse — a threefold increase over a two-year span.
Religious zealots attack “immodest” Jerusalem shops
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2011
A sign at the ice cream parlor may caution men and women not to lick cones in public, but the warning didn\’t stop Jewish zealots vandalizing the shop in Jerusalem\’s main ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.
Haredim riot in Jaffa over excavations
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2010
Hundreds of haredim rioted in Jaffa, attacking police officers with bricks and rocks, over an archeological dig.
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