The ultra-Orthodox Chabad movement is famed for its globe-hopping emissaries, tasked with ‘redeeming’ secular Jews and hastening the messianic age. But what happens when the…
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The next government must think big in terms of economics, education, health care and housing, because we may be about to miss our final chance …
When can it possibly be good that people chose hate? When a third of the voters for the racist ‘Religious Zionism’ party are from a…
Jewish extremism has broken its Haredi glass ceiling with the rise of the ultra-nationalist, virulently racist Religious Zionism party, and it’s thanks to staunchly secular…
There was a time when Netanyahu was entirely unwilling to cooperate with the Kahanists. Now, in his desperation, he’s rescuing them from political oblivion, no…
Israel faces a new terrorist insurgency. This time it’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with COVID, and the government is unwilling, or unable, to safeguard lives or…
Why did young ultra-Orthodox men attack Arab bus drivers in Bnei Brak last month? Why might they vote for the new racist-Kahanist party list? Here’s…
For 40 years, Israel has allowed a radical separatism, fed by political extortion and impunity, to flourish. That Haredi sedition, empowered by its blatant defiance…
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COVID-19 is surging again in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox communities. But no matter how many die, the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas and shuls won’t close, because every death is…
Forget the secular justice system: we’re ‘handling’ sexual abuse in-house, with crimes turned into sins and punishment into repentance. No wonder ultra-Orthodox rabbis have become…
Hanukkah is the result of one of the most successful rabbinical PR spins in Jewish history. On COVID-19, too, the holy men and politicos are…
Orthodox Jews helped win a Supreme Court victory for religious freedom in America. The response? Rank bigotry, insults and wild accusations – from fellow Jews …
We Jews already made a crucial decision about what religious freedom really means some 2,000 years ago. And it isn’t about defying COVID, shirking social…
The former UK Chief Rabbi was a model for a modern Orthodox generation, excelling in both Jewish and secular learning, and elucidating Jewish thought to…
I grew up on stories of Jewish suffering at the hands of hostile non-Jewish authorities, of resistance and self-sacrifice. Today, during the COVID-19 crisis, state…
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Source: https://www.haaretz.com