Haredi
The Latest
-
Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox El Al Passengers Force Two Flights To Ground So As Not To Be In The Air On Shabbat
Ultra-Orthodox passengers forced an El Al flight from the U.S. to Israel to land in Greece Friday afternoon over concerns that they would still be in the air as the Jewish Sabbath began, the Daily Mail reported. One flight was diverted to Rome, while the other had to land in Athens. Both planes had been…
-
Community Brooklyn Hasidim Lost A Vote — Which Might Save Their Children From A Life Of Poverty
In a last-minute backroom deal in April of 2018, a New York State Senator managed to dramatically reduce the ability of the government to enforce educational standards at Jewish day schools. Senator Simcha Felder, an Orthodox Jew who ran as a Democrat but caucuses with the Republicans, represents large swaths of the Hasidic community in…
-
Life Among Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox, ‘Civics’ Takes On A Very Different Meaning
“We don’t discuss politics, gossip or slander,” declared the billboard, located on a busy thoroughfare in the ultra-orthodox suburb of Ramat Beit Shemesh. “We should distance ourselves from everything having to do with the elections as if from fire,” one cartoon boy on the billboard was portrayed saying. “My father told me that he also…
-
News Women Victims Of Pittsburgh Bloodbath Get Erased By Hasidic Newspaper
A Hasidic newspaper left faces of the female victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre out of a front page spread on the tragedy. On the cover of its November 2 edition, the weekly Yiddish-language tabloid Di Tzeitung ran photos of the eight men slaughtered last Saturday at Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh. Underneath, in…
-
Opinion Think All Orthodox Jews Are Zionists? Think Again.
Many non-Orthodox Jews assume that all Orthodox Jews must be fervent Zionists. Given the centrality of Israel in Jewish movements — at least until recently — the natural assumption is that the more religious you are, the more Zionist you must be. Surely if today’s Evangelical Christians are Zionists, the Orthodox must be as well….
-
Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Radio Station Fined For Banning Women’s Voices On Air
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The haredi-Orthodox Kol Berama radio station was fined some $280,000 for keeping women’s voices off the air. The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday also ordered that the money, 1 million shekel, be held in a class action fund that will give the money to programs that empower religious women. The class action…
-
Film & TV Ruchie Freier’s Fight Exemplifies Orthodox Feminism. Is That A Good Thing?
Many people assume that the hardest part of being an Orthodox woman is following the religious code. But it’s not — it’s playing by the social rules. The new documentary “93Queen” follows Judge Ruchie Freier, a Haredi woman, through the founding of the first all-female Orthodox EMT group, Ezras Nashim, and Freier’s campaign for Civil…
-
Fast Forward 40 Haredi Orthodox Arrested For Protesting Arrest Of Draft-Dodging Student
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 40 haredi Orthodox protesters were arrested in Jerusalem during a demonstration against the arrest of a yeshiva student who refused to register for the draft. The demonstration on Thursday morning closed an intersection near the entrance of Jerusalem. Police and some of the estimated 400 protesters clashed during the demonstration,…
Most Popular
- 1
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
- 2
News Antisemitism group keeps board member who emailed Epstein on the legality of transporting minors for sex
- 3
Fast Forward AIPAC fails its first test in the midterms
- 4
Fast Forward Mamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat Antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion My university wants me to sign a loyalty oath — am I in America or Vichy France?
-
Opinion My grandmother Eva Schloss survived Auschwitz. She would not be silent about America today.
-
Fast Forward Credit Suisse had many more bank accounts with Nazi ties than previously known, investigation finds
-
Fast Forward Former Moscow rabbi says he rebuffed proposal to convert a million Russians discussed in Epstein files recording
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
