Haredi news
Ultra-Orthodox party paralyzes Knesset votes to force through military draft exemptions
The most recent proposal advanced is a bill that would halt the arrests of haredi draft evaders, which is set to be debated on Tuesday in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Following hours of haredi draft protests, Israeli highways reopen to traffic
Derech eretz lost - Why the proposed Basic Law betrays our sacred covenant - opinion
A-G to High Court: Gov’t has not adopted economic sanctions plan against haredi draft dodgers
Hasidic men aboard flight cover Drew Barrymore film with blankets
The movie in question was the 2007 Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore film Music and Lyrics.
Haredi leadership furious over police behavior during enlistment demonstration
Video footage emerged of police personnel dragging haredi men by their peot, or sidelocks, shoving them to the ground seemingly unprovoked.
Shas, UTJ lawmakers fight to prevent court from killing haredi military exemption
The newest development in the crisis that ensued after the High Court's decision to make Israel draft a new law or else draft all the haredim.
Haredi conscription order won't change anything, because PM has chosen sides
Netanyahu has been on the haredim's side all along, so why does everyone think that the new High Court ruling would suddenly cause the government to collapse?
Haredi, religious MKs up in arms over court's conscription order
Health Minister Yaakov Litzman described the ruling as “the worst and most wretched decision in the history of terrible decisions in the Jewish world.”
Please go to your seat, sir
Finally, El Al staff are forbidden to collaborate with haredi gender segregation.
Shameful day for Israel as it freezes plan for pluralistic prayer site at Kotel
Netanyahu’s office made sure to issue a statement that the cabinet decision on Sunday was not to cancel the deal but was merely to freeze it. This is a sham.
The shot heard around the world
Haredi parties advance proposal to nix egalitarian section of Western Wall
MK Rachel Azaria: "We must not lose US Jewry, and this proposal is a threat to this support.”
I have a new hero this week
Our goal must be to create a society in which my new hero can walk with pride on the streets of his neighborhood – and we must take the necessary steps to create that reality.