israel Archives – Jewish Journal

Israel’s Charedi draft: The court as a pundit

Shmuel Rosner September 14, 2017

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.

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.

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.

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.