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A Knesset committee advanced a bill requiring 18-year-old haredi Orthodox men and women to register for military service, with a deferral of up to three years. Under the bill submitted Thursday by the Peri Committee, also known as the Knesset
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Follow j. on and toronto On a dark Tel Aviv terrace, a young haredi Orthodox man and a younger haredi woman discuss love and heartbreak. There is tension and animosity, hurt feelings and broken promises. Then, in an emotional crescendo, the
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Mofaz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on the team, which was announced July 8. The team will formulate the law on haredi Orthodox military service based on recommendations of the Plesner committee, which Netanyahu dissolved July 2,
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Chasidim from Brooklyn mixed with yeshivish haredim (non-Chasidic) from Lakewood, N.J...These groups, while similar in many ways, usually stay within their own communities. But it's hardly the first time the haredi community has faced a threat from
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An eyewitness who photographed the event on May 10 said the boys attended a cheder of the Satmar communityan anti-Zionist Chasidic stream of approximately 150,000 adherents worldwide. The picture, taken in an interior courtyard, shows a middle-aged
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And one of the event's organizers owns a Web marketing company specializing in search engine optimization...After years of oft-flouted rabbinic bans on Internet use, a group of both Chasidic and non-Chasidic rabbis is pushing a new approach that will
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Sikrikim is the name given to a fringe anti-Zionist vigilante group, loosely linked to Neturei Karta and said to have been at the head of many of the recent violent attacks against innocent Israelis. In my mind, there is a dangerous similarity in
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Haredi protesters in Beit Shemesh (image by failed messiah blog) Sundays protests began after several members of the Haredi Orthodox community were arrested by Israeli police for tax fraud and money laundering. Protesters say that the arrestees were
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With the three men this week, six men now have been arrested for the abuse in the Nachlaot neighborhood. The first complaint in the case came in 2010, though the abuse is believed to have started as early as 2006. After trying to deal with the
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The annual Innovations in Gynecology and Halacha conference of the Puah Institute for Medicine and Halacha is scheduled for Wednesday. Some 1,000 men and women are expected to attend the conference, which is geared to the Modern Orthodox and haredi
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