Haredi Lawmakers Look To Outlaw Mixed Prayer At Western Wall
The Shas party said Monday it would propose a bill that would make it illegal to hold pluralistic prayer services at the Western Wall plaza.
The Shas party said Monday it would propose a bill that would make it illegal to hold pluralistic prayer services at the Western Wall plaza.
A 24-year-old haredi Jew was shot by robbers on Thursday while leaving a bank on Reforma Street in Mexico City.
A haredi man who urged his son to withhold a divorce from his wife must serve time in prison, after he lost his appeal to Israel’s highest rabbinical court.
The ultra-Orthodox family of a transgender woman who committed suicide over the weekend is trying to stop the cremation of her body, despite the woman’s wish to be cremated, as expressed in her will. Jerusalem District Court will hand down its ruling in the matter Wednesday.
The incitement against haredi IDF soldiers and their recruiters continued, with death threats being made against the head of the IDF branch for yeshiva students Sunday.
16 haredi extremists were arrested on Friday during a police-initiated operation in which a policeman dressed up as an IDF soldier.
Ukrainian police arrested an ultra-Orthodox couple from Israel at Kiev’s Boryspil Airport after finding more than two pounds of marijuana in their luggage.
Only days after Rabbi Rahamim Brachiyahu was appointed as Israel Police Chaplain, officials from the haredi community voiced their criticism. They claim that the appointment is an attempt to stifle haredi voices and belittle the influence that haredim have upon national bodies in the state.
An haredi child on Tuesday night threw a stone at a woman in her fifties after judging to be “not dressed modestly.”
The Megurit housing fund has seen its stocks tumble in the three months since it went public the Kikar Hashabbat Hebrew news website reported on Sunday.