Orthodox Jewish outreach, often referred to as Kiruv (Hebrew: קירוב "bringing close"), isthe collective work or movement of Orthodox Judaismthat reaches out to non-observant Jews to encourage belief in God and living according to Orthodox Jewish law. Is Chabad haredi? According...
the current bill proposal, authored byUnited Torah JudaismMK Yisrael Eichler but supported by both haredi political parties, has a more modest goal – not to exempt yeshiva students from service, but merely to remove a significant
For low-income Jews, the egg crisis is even more pressing. “I call them the poor person’s protein,” said Alexander Rappaport, executive director of the Masbia soup kitchen network in haredi Orthodox neighborhoods of New York City.Eggs, he said, were “cheaper than any canned fish or fro...
I've seen enough since then to realize that my initial revulsion at the business of the haredi world, suppressed so long ago, was well justified. And I've seen that non-haredi Orthodoxy is no better. I've also learned that many if not the vast majority of "facts" presented by the ...
In response Schiff wrote: “Mr. President, this is low. Even for you. No, I didn’t write Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish to a nation she served so well, and spent her whole life making a more perfect union. But I am going to fight like hell to make it come true. No confirma...
In Judaism, a mitzvah is a commandment from God. There are 613 mitzvot, which are divided into positive and negative categories...
“flip out” and make major changes from their modern Orthodoxy to more haredi commitments. The newly available research suggests that for a plurality of young people, religious change is less drastic. Many observers assume that the more right-leaning teachers in year-in-Israel programs ...
21 The symbol embodies the contradictory existence of the diasporic Jew as Israel’s Other: it proudly represents Judaism and Zionism, but is stained with derogatory anti-Semitic connotations from when it was used to identify Jews in the Holocaust (Yellow Badge), which are further stressed in ...