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…
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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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Praying as usual, playing with death: Ultra-Orthodox Jews will shape the Jewish future. That’s why their response to coronavirus is our problem too Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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20 percent, and rising, of the Jewish people live in closed communities run by rabbinical edict. COVID-19 is exposing a core conflict with wider society,…
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Hate speech against Haredi Jews looks different from the white nationalist anti-Semitism directed at ‘globalists’ and George Soros. It resembles far more the rising anti-Muslim,…
The coronavirus crisis has set off a blood libel against Orthodox Jews, from Brooklyn to Bnei Brak. And liberal Jews have kindled it Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Researching the Haredi community’s relations with the public health system, it’s clear both the state and religious leaders bear responsibility for the tragic breakdown in…
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