776 posts categorized "Women & Judaism"

May 24, 2013: New Lakewood Modesty Ad: God Is Proud Of You That Your…
Comments: 13 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
Another new Lakewood, New Jersey haredi modesty ad, this one directed at women, who are told that "God is proud of you that your…" Related articles Lakewood Haredi Modesty Poster Haredi Modesty Squad Bans Men's Tight-Fitting Pants Because They Could...

May 23, 2013: Haredi Activists Try To Ban Commercial Air Travel
Comments: 19 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Do not travel on commercial airplanes because of the 'immodestly' dressed passengers and crew, and because of the 'immodest' movies, an ad placed by haredi kanoim (activists) says. [Hat Tip: Burich.] Related articles Haredi Modesty Squad Bans Men's Tight-Fitting Pants...

May 20, 2013: New Lakewood 'Modesty' Booklet
Comments: 56 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
A new 'modesty' booklet, "You and Eye," was mailed to Jewish homes in Lakewood, New Jersey after Shavuot. Here are some sample pages. Related articles Haredi Modesty Sign In Midwood, Brooklyn Lakewood Haredi Modesty Poster More Haredi E-Rate Fraud? Lakewood...

May 20, 2013: Women Of The Wall Board Member Gets Death Threat
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Israel , Women & Judaism
Graffiti threatening the life of longtime board member of Women of the Wall journalist Peggy Cidor was found painted outside her apartment in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem this morning. Women Of The Wall Board Member Gets Death Threat Shmarya...

May 19, 2013: 2 Haredim Busted For Defacing Woman's Picture On Theater Billboards In Jerusalem
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
After a chase, Israel Police reportedly arrested two young haredi men they saw defacing the signs. One reportedly denied defacing them. The other allegedly justified the defacement by insisting that the ads depicting women actresses offend haredim. Defaced Khan Theater...

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 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: 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 10, 2013: Video: Clashes At The Western Wall
Comments: 11 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Video of today's clashes at the Kotel between haredim on one side and police and Women of the Wall on the other. The clashes shown in this brief video appear to have been filmed after haredim surged at Women of...

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 8, 2013: IN CRUSHING BLOW TO HAREDIM, A.G. ORDERS END TO ALL GENDER DISCRIMINATION & SEGREGATION, BANS HAREDI MEHADRIN BUSES EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
Comments: 39 | Categories: Bigotry & Racism , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Gender segregation and gender discrimination in Israel has finally come to its legal end. This large sign dictating the clothing women can and cannot wear is posted in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. It is now illegal and must be immediately...

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: RCA Issues Statement Condemning – Albeit Gently – Ordination Of 3 Women As Orthodox Clergy
Comments: 17 | Categories: MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
"…Due to our aforesaid commitment to sacred continuity, however, we cannot accept either the ordination of women or the recognition of women as members of the Orthodox rabbinate, regardless of the title." RCA Statement Regarding Recent Developments at Yeshivat Maharat...

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: Government Decides To Circumvent Court Ruling, Effectively Ban Women's Prayer Groups At Kotel By Fiat
Comments: 25 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett have reportedly decided not to appeal a stunning Jerusalem District Court ruling that Women of the Wall do not violate Kotel (Western Wall) custom when they pray at the holy...

May 6, 2013: No Gender Segregation Really Needed At The Western Wall, Liberal Haredi Rabbi Says
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
As Rabbi Dov Lipman spoke in Knesset, he was heckled by politicians from the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism party. No Gender Segregation Really Needed At The Western Wall, Liberal Haredi Rabbi Says Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com Ashkenazi haredi MK...

May 2, 2013: London Haredi Rabbis Open “Modesty Hotline”
Comments: 26 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
A UOHC spokesman insisted, however, that there would not be any “modesty patrols” to enforce dress and other standards. Instead, the Va’ad L’Toihar Hamachneh will "follow up and will investigate and do its best to solve the problem, according to...

May 2, 2013: Video: When The Kotel Was Unisex
Comments: 61 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Newsreel from 1936 shows haredi men and women praying side-by-side at the Kotel (Western Wall). So much for the false claim by the Kotel's haredi Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz about what the authentic custom at the Kotel really is. The Israel...

May 1, 2013: Lakewood Haredi Modesty Poster
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
A definite claim is made that Lakewood, New Jersey's modesty gathering protected the town's Jews from injury and illness, and a proof is cited. But how do the organizers know that? What is the basis for their claim? What is...

April 30, 2013: A Life Under Haredi Terror
Comments: 32 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
"When I moved to Beit Shemesh 13 years ago with my family, we joined a warm, embracing community that was part of a culturally diverse city. Unfortunately, this diversity reared an uglier side…when religious extremists began threatening, harassing and attacking...

April 26, 2013: Haredi Modesty Sign In Midwood, Brooklyn
Comments: 54 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
A haredi modesty sign posted in Midwood, Brooklyn yesterday.

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: Stunning Court Ruling "Liberates" Kotel from Haredim, Gives Sweeping Victory To Women Of The Wall
Comments: 35 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Hanukkah , Israel , Women & Judaism
“Today Women of the Wall liberated the Western Wall for all Jewish people. We did it for the 8-year-old girl who can now dream of having her Bat Mitzvah at the wall and for the grandmother who cannot climb on...

April 24, 2013: Hasidim Try To Force “Immodest” Woman To Leave Town
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Rabbi Zushe Horowitz, the rabbi of the hasidic community of Elad, Israel, has reportedly sanctioned and personally participated in a protest held outside the home of a woman hasidim allege has violated the community’s modesty standards. Hasidim Try To Force...

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 21, 2013: Modern Orthodox Support For Women Of The Wall Grows
Comments: 7 | Categories: Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
“I have a colleague at work who has known for years that I’m Orthodox, but last week, when I got back from the Women of the Wall service, she says to me, ‘But you’re Reform – right?’” Writing in Ha'aretz,...

April 14, 2013: High Court Issues Groundbreaking Ruling To Punish Get Refusers
Comments: 10 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Israel , Women & Judaism
The decision was made as part of an affair involving a woman who was abandoned by her husband about 12 years ago: A couple with four children immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The woman converted to Judaism...

April 12, 2013: Judge Issues "Groundbreaking" Ruling For Women Of The Wall, Against Police
Comments: 24 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
In what is being called a “groundbreaking” ruling, the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court criticized police yesterday as it ruled against them and freed the five Women of the Wall (WoW) members arrested while praying without penalty. Judge Rules For Women Of...

April 12, 2013: Video: Women Arrested At Kotel
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Here is video of yesterday's arrests of Women of the Wall members at the Kotel (Western Wall) for wearing tallits (prayer shawls) and tefillin (phylacteries). Related articles 5 More Women, 1 Haredi Man Arrested At Kotel Video: "Haredi" Man Arrested...

April 11, 2013: Picture Of The Day
Comments: 61 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
Make of this what you will. [Hat Tip: Bprebbetzin via HW.]

April 11, 2013: 5 More Women, 1 Haredi Man Arrested At Kotel
Comments: 12 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Five women were arrested today for wearing tallits (prayer shawls) and tefillin (phylacteries) at the Kotel (Western Wall). The women were participating in a monthly prayer service held by Women of the Wall, a nonprofit that advocates for religious pluralism...

April 10, 2013: Haredi Kotel Rabbi Reportedly Accepts Sharansky 'Compromise'
Comments: 11 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
The haredi rabbi of the Kotel (Western Wall) has accepted the "compromise" proposed yesterday by Natan Sharansky – a separate egalitarian section of the Kotel at Robinson's Arch. This isn't much of a surprise because that area will be cut...

April 9, 2013: Same Old, Same Old: Sharansky 'Solution' To Western Wall Problem To Leave Women, Non-Orthodox Jews, In The Cold
Comments: 18 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Under the proposal, the area now known as Robinson’s Arch on the southern end of the Wall will be greatly expanded to create a prayer space roughly equivalent to the existing men’s and women’s sections. Egalitarian prayer is currently permitted...

April 4, 2013: Kotel Rabbi Backs Down After Angry Sharansky Demands Answers
Comments: 24 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky – appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his point man on the issue of women’s prayer at the Kotel (Western Wall) – met earlier today with haredi Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the chairman of the...

April 4, 2013: Israel Police Warn Women Of The Wall They Will Be Arrested – For Saying Kaddish
Comments: 53 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Ahead of next Thursday’s scheduled prayer service, Jerusalem’s Police Commander Major-General Yossi Parente told the Women of the Wall that he has added another prayer they are forbidden to publicly recite at the Kotel (Western Wall) – Kaddish, the memorial...

April 3, 2013: New Haredi Book Series Tells Preschoolers Ponytails Are Immodest
Comments: 21 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A good Jewish girl should stay at home, comb her hair in two braids - not just one immodest ponytail – and close each button of her blouse. Go out for a walk? Skip or run? Absolutely not! Why? Because...

March 31, 2013: IDF Publishes Haredi Version Of Soldier’s Magazine; All Women’s Photos Are Removed
Comments: 22 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
For the first time ever, the IDF’s magazine for soldiers, Bamahane, published a full Passover haredi edition. 5,000 haredi soldiers and future haredi soldiers who have enlisted to serve in haredi-only units were sent the special haredi magazine by mail....

March 29, 2013: Untying The Knot
Comments: 20 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Rabbi Joseph di Trani (1538-1639 ), known as the Maharit [considered to be perhaps the leading Talmudist and halakhic scholar of his generation], also ruled to the effect that, "Anyone who knows of a flaw [vis-a-vis] someone's marital eligibility is...

March 28, 2013: Haredi Newspaper Censors Women’s Faces From Iconic Photo Of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Comments: 37 | Categories: Bans & Censorship , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
“We honor the memory of the martyrs of the Holocaust, and unlike [you in the secular press] - respect our readers and bring them only what they need and want to see." Originally published at 8:32 pm CDT 3-27-2013 The...

March 25, 2013: After More Incidents Of Gender Discrimination Made Public, Jerusalem’s Mayor Promises To Fight Them – Again
Comments: 5 | Categories: Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
Following several incidents of women musicians at the Sounds of the Old City festival in Jerusalem facing discrimination from festival organizers, Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat posted a statement on his Facebook page yesterday pledging to fight against such incidents. He...

March 23, 2013: Women Musicians Forced Off Stage In Old City By Haredi Threats
Comments: 4 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Women & Judaism
It was a violation of the law allegedly repeated often during the Sounds of the Old City music festival in Jerusalem last week. The government-funded festival was meant to showcase musicians, but the festival’s director is accused of forcing women...

March 22, 2013: High Court Rules Chief Rabbi, Rabbinic Courts, Knowingly Broke Law In Divorce Case
Comments: 3 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Religion , Sefardim , Women & Judaism
It was a judicial punch in the nose for Israel’s chief rabbis and rabbinical courts. Yesterday, a seven-judge panel of Israel’s High Court of Justice headed by the Court’s President Asher Grunis hit Israel’s haredi chief rabbis square on the...

March 18, 2013: Kiryas Joel Modesty Squad Publishes Ad In Newspaper Advertising Its Services
Comments: 29 | Categories: Haredim , Women & Judaism
"With this notice we are publicizing our telephone number to call with regard to any problems with issues of modesty or [lack of] holiness in the village." This is a translation of the first half of the ad. If any...

March 17, 2013: Haredi Paper Blurs Out Faces Of Children's Dolls
Comments: 28 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The Monsey Community Connections blurs out the faces of children's dolls for "modesty reasons." [Hat Tip: HeathenHassid.] Related articles Women's Laughter May Cause Yeshiva Students To Sin Haredim Lash Out At Israel's "Government Of Evil" Haredim Threaten To Launch A...

March 17, 2013: The Japanese-American Sheitel Macher To The Rich
Comments: 17 | Categories: Haredim , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
“They call me the Japanese sheitel macher,” she said, using a Yiddish term for wig seller. Ms. Tanaka does not speak Yiddish and she does not even sell wigs, but she has become the stylist to see for a certain...

March 12, 2013: All-Female Version Of Hazolah Gets NY State Approval
Comments: 36 | Categories: Haredim , Hessed , Women & Judaism
Ezras Nashim, the women-only haredi EMT group, recently received the okay from New York State to open their service to the public. Ezras Nashim will compete with Hatzolah – the male-only haredi EMT service – in heavily Jewish neighborhoods. Hatzolah...

March 7, 2013: Satmar-Hasid-Owned Newspapers Cut Slain Woman Out Of Her Own Wedding Picture For "Modesty" Reasons
Comments: 64 | Categories: Extreme Sniut , Haredim , Women & Judaism
The Satmar-hasid owned Der Blatt and Di Tzeitung Yiddish newspapers cut out Raizy Glauber, killed with her husband Nachman and her unborn baby when their livery cab was struck by a hit and run driver in Brooklyn, from her own...

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