908 posts categorized "Religion"

May 14, 2013: Women Of The Wall Divisive, Immodest And Arrogant Haredi Rabbi Of The Kotel Says
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitch also called on Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett to quickly formulate new regulations that would make the Kotel a haredi and Zionist Orthodox synagogue by government fiat. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitch Women Of The Wall Divisive, Immodest And...

May 14, 2013: Sefardi Haredim Allegedly Lie About Schools' Deal
Comments: 6 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
“I forgot who I was dealing with,” Lapid wrote on Facebook. “I don’t understand it. It’s not only an obvious lie; he also destroyed the possibility that we will work with him in the future on issues important to his...

May 13, 2013: Sefardi Haredim Reportedly Agree To Government Education Demands
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
“This is an historic night. Haredi schools will be subject to standardized testing and core studies in order to gain funding." Rabbi Shai Piron Updated at 8:00 pm CDT Sefardi Haredim Reportedly Agree To Government Education Demands Shmarya Rosenberg •...

May 13, 2013: First They Came For Haredim, Next They Will Come For Us, Modern Orthodox Rabbi Says
Comments: 38 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion , Women & Judaism
“We are the ones who should be shouting, not the chareidim, for after they are taken out of the picture we will be next in line.” Rabbi Yaakov Medan First They Came For Haredim, Next They Will Come For Us,...

May 12, 2013: Leading Sefardi Haredi Rabbi Uses Hebrew "N" Word Slur To Attack Government
Comments: 34 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
“If we’re talking about the sports budget, there is plenty of money to bring a few Cushim to play basketball, but when its a budget for synagogues or ritual baths, there’s nothing." Rabbi David Yosef The Times of Israel reports:...

May 12, 2013: More Israelis Support Women Of The Wall Than Oppose Them
Comments: 7 | Categories: Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
"Support for the Women of the Wall is highest among self-defined secular Israeli Jews (64%) and the traditional-non-religious (53%). Traditional-religious (26%), religious (28%), and ultra-Orthodox (0%) support them to a lesser degree." Friday's anti-Women of the Wall riots The poll...

May 12, 2013: Video: Women Of The Wall – What It Was Like Before Last Month's Court Ruling
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
A video from the New York Times made in December of last year clearly shows you what haredim call a "provocation" by WoW, and has the Kotel's haredi Rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovitch, saying that he "has legal authority to decide what...

May 12, 2013: Audio: MK Rabbi Dov Lipman Responds To Critics Of The Haredi Draft And Secular Education
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad & EJs , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Member of Knesset Dov Lipman – called a "rasha" (evil one) and an "apostate" by Rabbi Aharon Feldman – responds to the stinging attacks on him from haredi rabbis, including Feldman, over the government's plan to draft haredim and to...

May 11, 2013: Non-Orthodox Movements Ask AG To Investigate Rabbis’ Involvement In Friday’s Kotel Riots
Comments: 37 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Religion , Women & Judaism
The heads of both the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel will demand that Israel’s attorney general to investigate the role rabbis employed by the government may have played in Friday’s riot against Women of the Wall at the Kotel...

May 11, 2013: Video: Samuel Heilman On Leaving Haredi Judaism
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Religion , Skepticism & Former Haredim
Sociologist Samuel Heilman talks about the haredi community and why some choose to leave it – and why those who do face such an uphill battle. Watch Samuel Heilman Extended Interview on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly....

May 10, 2013: Video: Leaving Haredi Judaism
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Religion , Skepticism & Former Haredim
"We are seeing a lot more [haredim trying to leave ultra-Orthodoxy], just in this year alone, we’ve seen a 60% increase in our membership and in new people coming to us, and that’s compared to a 35% increase that we’ve...

May 10, 2013: Attack On MK Rabbi Dov Lipman Exposes The Problem With Haredi Logic
Comments: 19 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"Clearly there is no Talmudic or Halachic foundation for not teaching children…basic skills…that they will need to be able to earn a living…So instead of arguing the point itself, Rabbi Aharon Feldman uses a classic ruse. He tries to bolster...

May 10, 2013: HAREDIM RIOT AT THE KOTEL
Comments: 46 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Haredim fought with police and hurled bottles of water, garbage, hot coffee, rocks eggs, chairs and other objects at the Women of the Wall worshippers. They also spit on the women and children with Women of the Wall and screamed...

May 9, 2013: While Apologizing For Calling Knesset Member Rabbi Dov Lipman "Evil," Haredi Leader Rabbi Aharon Feldman Says Lipman "Mistaken," Should Resign
Comments: 9 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Rabbi Dov Lipman is "a shogeg" [a person who has erred or who is mistaken], not a "rasha" [evil man], the rosh yeshiva of Baltimore's Ner Israel Yeshiva Rabbi Aharon Feldman (pictured at right) told his students. However, while apologizing...

May 9, 2013: Chabad Joins Battle To Fight Against Teaching Math, English
Comments: 23 | Categories: Chabad , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yeruslavsky, the secretary for Chabad’s beit din in Israel and the chief rabbi of Nachlas Har Chabad, ordered Chabad schools to join the battle against Israeli government efforts to get haredi schools to teach Israel’s core curriculum....

May 8, 2013: Haredi Soldiers Ask For Uniform Exemption After Receiving Threats, Harassment
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"…The [haredi] street is on fire and we have become its victims. They call us names, say we are impure and threaten our children. Some of us are forced to hide and – in violation of army directives – change...

May 8, 2013: MK Rabbi Dov Lipman Responds To Personal Attack From Haredi 'Gadol'
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"…Adina Bar Shalom, Rav Ovadiah Yosef's daughter appeared before the Knesset task force to help Haredim enter the work force which I founded and begged us to implement math and English because 50 percent of the boys in her chareidi...

May 8, 2013: Antiquities Authority: Sharansky Plan For Kotel Sentences "The Most Important Archaeological Site In The State Of Israel To Destruction"
Comments: 13 | Categories: History , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
"I don’t know any intelligent archaeologist who would allow a construction project of that size on the Herodian street. It’s inconceivable, just like building such a structure on the Acropolis…We’re sentencing the most important archaeological site in the State of...

May 7, 2013: Dean Of Ner Israel Yeshiva In Baltimore Calls MK Rabbi Dov Lipman "Evil," Equates Him With Amalek
Comments: 29 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Rabbi Aharon Feldman, the rosh yeshiva of Ner Israel in Baltimore, attacked MK Rabbi Dov Lipman last week. Feldman called Lipman "wicked" and compared him to Amalek. He also condemned efforts to compel haredi schools in Israel to teach secular...

May 7, 2013: Government Reportedly Removes Demand That Haredi Schools Teach Country's Core Curriculum
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Another government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently given in to haredi demands. Israel HaYom reports: A clause in the arrangements bill that would have required ultra-Orthodox schools to teach students the state's core curriculum has been deleted...

May 7, 2013: AG Clarifies Position On Women Of The Wall, Rules Women's Prayer Group At Kotel Is Legal – For Now – Haredim May Stage Protest
Comments: 36 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
The spokesperson reportedly said that by not appealing the Jerusalem District Court ruling in favor of WoW to Israel's High Court of Justice, Weinstein accepts it, which means that for now, in the short term, Women of the Wall can...

May 6, 2013: Don't Let Gentiles Or Average Jews Know We Do Controversial Circumcision Sucking Rite, Chabad Rabbi Says
Comments: 40 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , Med-Ethics , Religion
“[Metzitzah b'peh, the direct mouth-to-bleeding penis sucking done by many haredi mohels after removing a baby's foreskin] is not an issue that should be discussed in a non-Jewish paper. It’s something to be discussed by rabbis.” The mohel at the...

May 6, 2013: Government's Draft Exemption Of 30,000 Haredim Will Fail Unless We Give Them Jobs, Zionist Orthodox Leader Says
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"This coming August will see 30,000 haredim receive exemption from military service. This will be a national test. If we fail to integrate them into the workforce the government's entire burden equality scheme is doomed." Naftali Bennett Israel HaYom reports:...

May 5, 2013: Haredi Soldiers Receive Death Threats From Haredi Anti-Draft Activist(s)
Comments: 16 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion
The letters call IDF uniforms “tamei” (ritually and spiritually impure) and warn that if the haredi soldiers are not out uniform and away from the impure military bases in two weeks, an all-out war will be fought against the haredi...

May 5, 2013: Haredi Columnist Equates Israel’s Finance Minister With Adolph Hitler
Comments: 14 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Yated Ne’eman, the haredi daily newspaper that serves as a mouthpiece for ‘mainstream’ non-hasidic haredi leadership, published a column today comparing Israel’s Minister of Finance Yair Lapid to Adolf Hitler. Chaim Walder Haredi Columnist Equates Israel’s Finance Minister With Adolph...

May 5, 2013: Hundreds Demonstrate Against Forced Movie Theater Sabbath Closure
Comments: 7 | Categories: Israel , Religion
Almost 500 demonstrators reportedly protested outside city hall in Jerusalem Saturday night against the government’s decision to compel the city’s newest and largest movie complex to close on Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. Cinema City's completed and open Rishon Lezion, Israel...

May 2, 2013: Hearing Voices: When "God" "Speaks" To Man
Comments: 22 | Categories: Religion
"…I don’t think that anthropologists can pronounce on whether God exists or not, but I am averse to the idea that God is the full explanation here.…A questionnaire posed to 375 college students found that 71 percent reported vocal hallucinations...

May 1, 2013: Haredim Unequipped For Army And Work
Comments: 28 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"Like many of my friends, I'd be happy to work if I knew someone would hire me. But at age 28 with four children, I'm afraid to leave the kollel and begin professional training. What if nobody hires me? How...

April 29, 2013: Hiddush Report Finds Israel Among The Worst Countries For Freedom Of Marriage And Divorce
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion
"Israel received the grade of "0" [the worst grade possible] due to severe restrictions that limit the options for legal marriage and discriminate against certain populations. These severe restrictions on freedom of marriage put Israel alongside countries that are among...

April 28, 2013: Drafting Haredim The Work Of Satan, Chief Rabbi Says
Comments: 21 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
"For the sins of multitudes, folly entered the minds of the few – it is the work of the Satan. Our salvation is wholly dependent on the Torah. The Satan instilled in their minds the folly that putting an end...

April 28, 2013: Rabbi Blocks Burial Of War Hero’s Father
Comments: 31 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Religion
When Genadi Drobitsky died of cancer recently, there was nowhere to bury him. True, there was a cemetery in Nahariya and it had open plots. Dobritsky’s son – a war hero who died in battle – is buried there, and...

April 26, 2013: Hard Right Likud Faction Head Says State Wrong To Force Haredi Schools To Teach Math
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"I am completely with the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) who reject the State attempt to compel them to add a secular curriculum to Torah studies in their schools: Responsibility for the education of a child lies with the parents – not the...

April 26, 2013: Haredi Kotel Rabbi Says Court Ruling Will Lead To “Civil War”
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
"I will fight wholeheartedly against any harm to the holiness of the Western Wall, and I will not allow the slightest deviation from what is and has been customary at the site for decades…[any change] will face strong opposition and...

April 25, 2013: New Haredi Guide For Resisting Military Draft Tells Haredi Yeshiva Students That The Time May Be Coming When They Will Have To Choose Suicide Rather Than Army Service
Comments: 61 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion
A new draft resisters’ guide tailored for haredi yeshiva students reportedly compares the draft of those haredi yeshiva students to the Holocaust and reminds them that, like in the Holocaust, sometimes suicide is preferable to complying with the decrees of...

April 25, 2013: Haredi Yeshivas Lash Out At New Proposed Gov’t Standards, State Funding Cuts
Comments: 7 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
The new proposed government standards for haredi schools and their tie to state funding cuts "would simply spell the end of [our haredi] schools, as it's out to make them study core [secular] subjects [like math], which simply will never...

April 24, 2013: Only Haredi Rabbis Will "Dictate" What Haredi Children Study, Haredi Pol Says
Comments: 16 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"It is not about science, math, computers or English, but it is about Yair Lapid understanding it is the rabbonim [haredi rabbis], the Gedolei Yisrael Shlita [the leading haredi rabbis], who will dictate what the children learn, not Lapid, Piron...

April 22, 2013: Haredim Heckle Finance Minister Yair Lapid In Knesset, Lapid Responds In Kind
Comments: 42 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"Our duty is to make sure no child goes hungry. But I want to remind you of one thing: The entity that is responsible for providing for children is called 'their parents.' When you bring a child to this world,...

April 22, 2013: Haredi Schools Violate Government Directive, Open On Independence Day
Comments: 15 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Many (if not all) haredi schools that take money from the state remained open on Israel's Independence Day despite a government directive ordering them to close in compliance with the law. This has led to calls to sanction and/or defund...

April 21, 2013: Israel Police Lie About Women Of The Wall In Court, Judge Doesn't Buy It
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
In court, Israel Police blamed Women of the Wall (WoW) for a disturbance clearly initiated by others, claimed an eccentric male Kotel regular's burning of a Mormon missionary tract was caused by WoW, and deceptively claimed they don't get their...

April 18, 2013: Netanyahu Will Soon Dump Secularists And Zionist Orthodoxs And Will Return Sefardi Haredi Shas Party To Power, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Says
Comments: 30 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Sefardim
The Sefardi haredi leader also called Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid "Asmodai," a "demon" who is one of the Seven Princes of Hell. Netanyahu Will Soon Dump Secularists And National Religious And Will Return Sefardi Haredi Shas Party To...

April 17, 2013: Video: Neturei Karta Protests Yom Ha'atzmaut
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Neturei Karta has no real following, because Satmar and other anti-Zionist haredim have been forced to distance themselves publicly from Neturei Karta because of Neturei Karta's open embrace of genocidal people like Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But what Neturei Karta...

April 17, 2013: Massive Haredi NYC Protest Against Israel Reportedly Canceled
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Ads for Sunday's demonstration have reportedly been canceled, as has the demonstration itself – not because of the Boston Marathon terror attack but because Israeli haredi leader Rabbi Aharon leib Shteinman is opposed to holding it. Originally published at 11:38...

April 16, 2013: IDF Chief Of Staff: We Need Haredim To Guard The Borders
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
"We need more manpower, and we will be pleased if the ultra-Orthodox serve in the IDF. They have brought good results wherever they have served to date, and they will learn that army service benefits them as well. I think...

April 15, 2013: French Haredi BT Banned From Seeing Son Because Of "Extremist" Religious Views
Comments: 16 | Categories: BTs , Haredim , Religion
A haredi ba’al teshuva has been barred by French social services in Toulouse from seeing his son. Social Services recorded 45-year-old Richard Dray telling his 12-year-old son over the telephone that he should not worry because “everything that happens to...

April 15, 2013: Haredi Man In Bag On Plane Says Rabbi Told Him To Do It
Comments: 45 | Categories: BTs , Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Religion
"I have known him for 25 years now. He is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in senior and classified positions in the Israel Air Force. Before Passover he flew to Israel, and because of a change in the flight...

April 15, 2013: Flawed Penn Haredi Circumcision Study Comes Under Fire As Agudah Court Brief Lies
Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Religion
The two Penn Med Center for Evidence-based Practice members who did the study cited by haredi umbrella organization Agudath Israel of America in a court filing in support of its claim that there is no valid statistical information to back...

April 15, 2013: Hasidic Rebbes Gather In Jerusalem To Combat New Goverment’s “Anti-Haredi” Decisions
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion
Members of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel met yesterday in Jerusalem in special session to deal with the new government’s threat to enforce the law and defund any haredi school or yeshiva that is not teaching the...

April 15, 2013: Satmar Sets Up Committee To Help Haredim Flee Israel
Comments: 32 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
Satmar has set up a committee, the Committee for Recruitment of Refugees, and a hotline for worried Israeli haredi yeshiva students to call. Based in the US, the hotline and the Satmar committee that runs it will help yeshiva students...

April 14, 2013: Haredim Reportedly Plan Massive Anti-Israel Protest In NYC
Comments: 44 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion
The rabbis want to hold the event in Lower Manhattan, blocking streets and filling them with haredim in protest of the Israeli government’s decision to enforce the law and withhold funding from haredi yeshivas and schools that refuse to teach...

April 12, 2013: IDF Chief Of Staff Refuses To Place Flag On “Non-Jewish” Soldier’s Grave
Comments: 10 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Israel , Religion , Xenophobia
“Mourning is equally difficult among Jews as it is among non-Jews. It was not necessary to add to the family’s grief through alienation grounded in an ugly discrimination of blood which also contradicts basic democratic principles…[the fact that Tuluzko was...

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