A 34-year-old ultra-Orthodox man was arrested Sunday for throwing a porcelain mug at an 11-year-old girl in the central, largely ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak the previous day after yelling at her for not being dressed modestly enough.
Pashkevilim the posters plastered on walls and fences in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, which typically publicize rabbinical decrees, or moral or halakhic exhortations have taken an unusual turn into the world of finance in recent weeks.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has apologized for a catalog aimed at Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that contains no images of women.
Just days after tumultuous demonstrations around the country protesting the draft of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students into the Israeli army, Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, who heads an extreme faction of the non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox community, has begun recruiting women into the anti-conscription effort.
Authorities in Jerusalem arrested two men Monday morning in an apparent crackdown on a vigilante “modesty squad” which has operated for years in the capital’s haredi neighborhoods.
Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) slammed the haredi demonstrations against enlistment in the IDF which have occurred around the country this week.
On the face of it, the ultra-Orthodox demonstrations in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh are another protest against the state and its intention to draft yeshiva students.
A member of the Haredi community, recently discharged from the IDF, was attacked by an ultra-Orthodox mob of yeshiva students Wednesday night when they surrounded him, subjected him to verbal abuse and threw garbage cans and even stones at him.
Violent demonstrations across Israel by ultra-Orthodox followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbah over the arrest of an army deserter continued into their third day on Thursday.
It’s difficult enough to deal with the pressures of being a teenager in today’s world, but when you start adding the supply of prescription drugs made easily available within our Yeshiva’s and school systems, then we need to open our eyes to new ways of protecting our children from harm’s way.