Tag: Beit Shemesh

Anglo political party threatens to bow out of municipal council if measures are not taken to prevent hostility between citizens - recommend a dialogue group of influential rabbis.

But every place has issues - Monsey, Teaneck, Yerushalayim, Kansas, and even Canada. No place is perfect, and issues need to be dealt with.

We thought the outrageous incident involving an eight-year-old child being spat on by a haredi man because he didn't think she was modestly dressed was about as over the top as one could get.

All responsible leaders in our community have roundly condemned the recent violence in Beit Shemesh and Meah Shearim.

In recent months a new theme has replaced the media’s past obsession with Israel’s alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians.

The Jewish Agency for Israel has called on local residents of the city of Beit Shemesh in central Israel to submit proposals for “promoting dialogue and cooperation between Haredi [ultra-orthodox] communities and other communities in Beit Shemesh".

Thousands of Chareidi men (ultra-Orthodox Jews) protested at Kikar Shabbat, the main intersection between the Geulah and Meah Shearim neighborhoods in Jerusalem, this Saturday...

In one respect, the current, very public, controversy over gender separation in Israel is a no-brainer.

A protest in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday evening highlighted the problems and religious tensions facing this community.

JERUSALEM – Several thousand Israelis, from across the country’s religious and political spectrums, rallied in Beit Shemesh Tuesday evening against the growing number of attacks on local women and children by a group of radical haredim affiliated with the Sikrikim, a violent offshoot of Jerusalem’s Neturei Karta faction.

Murderers of Kristine Luken sentenced to life imprisonment. Terror cell left behind a trail of murder, rape, theft and violence.

The wave of Anglo immigration to the Jewish State during the past decade has played a key role in changing the demographic complexities of...