The bill, in effect, would encourage yeshiva students to continue evading service, and for this reason, the Attorney-General’s Office wrote in an opinion this week that it was unconstitutional. This is also the reason why a number of members of the coalition have said publicly that they wil...
That which was true at the beginning of the Jewish people is also true of Israeli society now. However, today the tribes of Israel are counted as four: the secular Jews; the National Religious Jews, also known asReligious Zionists; the haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews; and the minority sect...
This is a post that I felt compelled to write but that will make me no friends – on any side. I had originally intended to maintain complete radio silence over the current situation – as is generally my strategy on internal Israeli affairs. Others suggested that given the noise in the U...
First, let us move away from this particular radical leftist teacher and think about it more generally. If the teacher is a chemistry teacher, is there room for such debate? And if it arose in class, even if a pupil began the discussion, can we be sure that the pupil was not somehow ...
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In the exhibition, you put their boat next to the “Haredim” boat. Yes, why not? [laughs] And where were the “Haredim” going? I called this boat Metaphysical Exile because, for them, it’s not important if they are here or not; they feel they are still in exile. All of them,...
cast their ballots according to their community affiliation. But that is not accurate. Many Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox vote for nationalist ultra-Orthodox lists (Hardal), and a high percentage of Sephardi ultra-Orthodox vote for Likud. But generally speaking, haredim tend to vote for the haredi ...