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Top ultra-Orthodox rabbis meeting on efforts to secure Haredi draft exemptions
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Top rabbis double down against any Haredi enlistment as IDF issues more draft orders
Ultra-Orthodox leaders vow not to be cowed by 'sanctions and decrees, punishments and arrests' as major rabbi declares ...
Opposition demands to convene Knesset plenum to discuss haredi draft, hostages
Shas and United Torah Judaism said in a statement that they were willing to meet to discuss a hostage deal. The heads of the ...
Israel National News9d
Goldknopf threatens: 'Israel will be without haredim if they are drafted'
United Torah Judaism Party chairman says the haredi community would leave Israel entirely if they are faced with a mandatory ...
National Catholic Reporter1d
A group of observant Jews set out to reclaim their tradition's focus on justice, mercy amid war in Gaza
The Halachic Left is one of several new Jewish protest groups that have formed after Oct. 7, 2023, to argue for a reclaiming ...
The Times of Israel on MSN16d
Shas bolts gov’t for failing to enshrine Haredi non-enlistment in law, remains part of PM’s coalition
Council of Torah Sages decries 'persecution against yeshiva students,' instructs party representatives 'to immediately resign ...
The Times of Israel on MSN15d
In scathing attack, Haredi leader says partnership is over with religious Zionist parties, and maybe with PM
In a lengthy interview with the ultra-Orthodox Kikar Hashabbat news site, the veteran Haredi politician — whose United Torah ...
Israel National News12d
UTJ Accuses Shas: 'Deri is mocking the Council of Torah Sages'
The United Torah Judaism claimed that the Shas chairman had deceived the Rabbis by keeping his party in the coalition.
The Jewish Exponent1mon
The Haredi Draft Emergency - Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
The cost? More time for United Torah Judaism and Shas to gut the draft legislation that would bring their communities into the national fold. The current version of the bill proposes modest targets ...
Decades-long bureaucratic battle ends: 30-year-old man receives recognition of his Jewish identity
The case originated approximately 15 years ago when the man's mother, residing in Eilat, separated from her Arab partner and ...
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First Draft Notices for Haredi Recruits Expected Next Week
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told the Knesset plenum last week that 3,000 haredi soldiers will be drafted to the military by next summer. “Our goal is to draft all those who can be recruited by ...
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4 facts about religious switching within Judaism in Israel
Young Haredi students pray at the sacred Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Matteo Placucci/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Religious switching into and out of Judaism is rare in ...