Perry Committee Haredi Recruitment Plan: Sanctions on Draft Dodgers

Posted on: May 23rd, 2013

The recommendations determine new rules for sharing the security burden equally.

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Haredi Tycoons Raising $100 Million to Replace Lapid’s Budget Cuts

Posted on: May 21st, 2013

Lapid is beginning to smell like a rose thanks to Haredi tycoons. He is taking yeshivas off the government dole and balancing the budget. How will yeshivas survive? The tycoons have an answer - money.

New Budget Designed to Hurt Haredim, Tourists

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

That's a whole lot of achievements for the fresh finance minister.

Livni Pushes for Law Banning Segregation of Women

Posted on: May 10th, 2013

Israel’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livni ordered her ministry on Thursday to draft legislation that would make the gender-based segregation of women illegal. “Discrimination against women in public places, in public services, cannot be allowed,” she said in a radio interview. She wrote on her Facebook page, “Removal of women from the public sphere is damaging [...]

Haredi Paper Equates Lapid and Hitler Speeches

Posted on: May 6th, 2013

Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews. Lapid only wants to exterminate the Haredi habit of not to work or serve in the IDF. That is enough for a Haredi columnist to compare Lapid’s and Hitler’s speeches.

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Moving Left, Rav Ovadia Recrowns Deri as Shas Boss

Posted on: May 5th, 2013

The countdown to a Shas+UTJ replacement of Bennett in the government may have begun.

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Haredi Deans Refuse Meeting with Knesset Committee over IDF Recruiting

Posted on: May 2nd, 2013

Meanwhile, a mini coalition crisis has been pitting Yesh Atid members of the Perry Committee against Likud representatives.

Fraud Charges Pending against Conversion Reversing Rabbi

Posted on: April 26th, 2013

Rabbi Avraham Sherman could be charged with fraud, breach of trust, obstruction of justice, and abuse of office.

Deputy Minister Calls Haredim ‘Parasites’ on Radio

Posted on: April 24th, 2013

If Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid has any hopes of gaining one or even two Haredim as his fans, his deputy Finance Minister blew it “on air” when he called Haredim “parasites” on a Haredi radio program.

Satmar Sets up ‘Draft Refugee’ Panel to Send Yeshiva Youth to US

Posted on: April 15th, 2013

This really is Independence Day! Satmar sets up an emergency panel to hustle IDF Draft Refugees’ out of Israel lest they be contaminated by serving the country. Let them be America’s problem.

‘Plastic Bag’ Airplane Passenger a Kohen Staying Pure?

Posted on: April 12th, 2013

Look up in the sky? Is It a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Plastic Man – the Orthodox Jew who wrapped himself in plastic on an airplane, apparently because he is a very scrupulous Kohen.

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WOW to Celebrate Rosh Chodesh Iyar as Usual

Posted on: April 10th, 2013

They will be joined by MKs Tamara Zandberg and Michal Rozin.

Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Memorial Day Starts Sunday Night

Posted on: April 6th, 2013

Yom HaShoah will open at sundown at Yad Vashem's Warsaw Ghetto Square in Jerusalem.

Bennett Suggests Haredi ‘Yeshiva-IDF Service’ Plan

Posted on: April 2nd, 2013

An annual quota of approximately 7,000 Haredim would be paid while learning in yeshiva for three years before serving in the IDF or doing national service, under a plan by Industry and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party. He also proposed that 1,800 of them would be exempt from service and [...]

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Kosher for Passover Cigarettes for the Jew Who Has ‘Everything’

Posted on: March 28th, 2013

Pst! Heard the latest “humras” for Passover. A group of Haredi rabbis put their seal of approval for Kosher for Passover cigarettes. Israeli’s chief rabbis respond: Poison is not kosher at any time.

200 Haredim Drafted on Thursday

Posted on: March 24th, 2013

This latest draft represents a 30% increase in the number of Haredim drafted into the battalion.

Spider-Man Makes Exodus from Williamsburg for Passover

Posted on: March 21st, 2013

Williamsburg, New York Haredim have finally convinced Columbia Pictures to halt filming of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ in order not to cause parking problems during the Passover holiday. “We expressed the importance for Spider-Man to pass-over filming during Passover and they have answered our call,” City Councilman Stephen Levin wrote on his blog. “Reducing the [...]

Neturey Karta Ask Obama for Protection from the Zionists

Posted on: March 20th, 2013

Treating the president as if he was, at least, a Rosh Yeshiva, if not a Rebbe, the good people of Meah Shearim prepared special posters adorned with American flags.

IDF, Religious Students Oppose Supermodel in Pro-Israel Ads

Posted on: March 19th, 2013

Israeli military officers and religious students are objecting to the selection of supermodel Bar Refaeli as part of an ad campaign to raise Israel’s public image. Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, wrote the Foreign Ministry a critical letter of its choice of Refaeli, pointing out that she did not [...]

Knesset Swears in New Govt with Hugs and a Walkout

Posted on: March 18th, 2013

The 33rd Knesset is off to a flying start. MKs kissed and hugged each other, Haredim walked out, and Arabs called the coalition”racist.” Tomorrow, the Knesset return to more bickering.