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.

Vicious Graffiti Sprayed on Home of Women of the Wall Official

Posted on: May 20th, 2013

Vandals spray painted the Jerusalem home of a long-time board member of the Women of the Wall (WOW) with vicious graffiti, the first time opponents to WOW have resorted to vengeance. Some of the graffiti sprayed on the door and stairwell of Peggy Cidor’s apartment read in Hebrew: “Women of the Wall are wicked,” “Peggy, [...]

Israeli Company Sued over Cruelty to Kosher Slaughtered Animals

Posted on: May 20th, 2013

A group of consumers headed by a Haredi woman is looking to sue Tnuva for consumer anguish.

Few Terrorize ‘New Haredim,’ But Majority Accepts Integration

Posted on: May 19th, 2013

The media accentuate the negative and violent acts of a very small minority, over the mature and calm behavior of the vast majority of Haredim.

AG Team on Women’s Discrimination Discriminates Against Women

Posted on: May 17th, 2013

The committee did not invite even one, single Haredi woman to testify.

35 Thousand Haredim Protest Draft, 10 Cops Injured

Posted on: May 17th, 2013

The demonstrators rallied "against the evil decree of conscription."

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Bennett and Livni in Facebook Fight over Women of the Wall

Posted on: May 16th, 2013

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Religious Affairs Minister Yair Lapid, who doubles as Finance Minister, are arguing via Facebook over the issue of a women’s minyan at the Western Wall. Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky has proposed that a Women of the Wall demand for the minyan be allowed at the southern part of the [...]

Election Of Chief Rabbis A Tumultuous Process

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

JERUSALEM – Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Israel’s current Sephardi chief rabbi whose 10-year term is set to expire in the coming months, and Ramat Gan Chief Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, a leading Ashkenazi rabbi, announced their intention to force a legal change in the chief rabbinate selection process.

Haredi Men Throw Garbage on WOW, Orthodox Women Keep the Peace

Posted on: May 10th, 2013

UTJ and WOW argue over the halacha of women's prayer on the radio -- can Mashiach be too far?

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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 [...]

Thousands of Orthodox Women to Mix with WOW at the Kotel

Posted on: May 9th, 2013

Yes, they've won a battle, a long one at that—but the war is far from over.

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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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Jerusalem Residents Protest Plan to Close Cineplex on Shabbat

Posted on: May 5th, 2013

Approximately Jerusalem residents, including Meretz party supporters, protested on front of City Hall Saturday night against a plan to close a new movie theater complex on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. The complex, which includes restaurants and a 15-screen movie theater, is set to open this summer. It will close on weekends in keeping with an [...]

Bill Advances to Guarantee Women on Panel to Nominate Rabbis

Posted on: April 28th, 2013

The absence of Haredi parties in the government is already being, and women probably will be among those nominating Israel’s next rabbinic judges and chief rabbis.

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.

Netanyahu Approves Egalitarian Section at Western Wall

Posted on: April 22nd, 2013

The women win a battle, but the question is, “Do they want a war they might lose?” Netanyahu approves Sharansky’s plan for women to pray like men in an “egalitarian” section at the Western Wall.

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With Haredim Out of Govt. Summer Clock Will Be Stretched

Posted on: April 22nd, 2013

Traditionally, a religious Interior minister decided in favor of the religious, but now things have changed.

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TIME Lists Yair Lapid as One of Top 100 Influential Leaders

Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Yair Lapid is handsome, charismatic and ego-centric, all that takes to become a political leader and for TIME Magazine to rate him as one of the world’s top 100 influential people in the world.

Peres: Torah Does Not Ban Women Wearing Tallis at Western Wall

Posted on: April 17th, 2013

President Peres showed off his lack of knowledge of Jewish law and told the NY UJA, “The Torah does not ban women from wearing a tallis.”

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