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On Wednesday night, 24 hours after Defense Minister Ehud Barak had given Rabbi Eliezer Melamed a 48-hour deadline to come discuss his stand on insubordination in the IDF, the head of the Har Bracha Yeshiva still had not acquiesced. "The matter is being...
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Rabbis representing the Ashkenazi haredi rabbinical leadership were poised on Tuesday to send a letter to Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger demanding that he "clarify" his stance on city rabbis who refuse to recognize conversions performed by the Chief...
Tags: Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger, chief rabbinate, chief rabbis, Israel, National Conversion Authority, rabbinate courts, city rabbis, conversion performed, IDF, Shaul Farber, Jerusalem, Shlomo Amar, Rishon LeZion, Yona Metzger, Rabbi, Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, Israeli Jews, Conversion to Judaism, Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Religion Belief
Top officials in the Civilian Service program are unable to provide information on the activities of dozens of participating former yeshiva students, Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner complained this week, casting doubt on the destination of millions of shekels...
Tags: civilian services, Civilian Service Authority, Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner, IDF, yeshiva students, services program, tal law, Israel, Jerusalem, Tal committee, Kadima, Haredi Judaism, Israel Defense Forces, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Orthodox Judaism, Yohanan Plesner, Shas
There was anger on two fronts in the Binyamin-area settlement of Psagot on Wednesday, as news that the IDF was pulling a company of reserve soldiers out of the area came just after security forces and inspectors from the civil administration arrived to...
Tags: Psagot, psagot resident, IDF, security forces, Israel, Jerusalem, Eli Mateh Binyamin, Samaria, Judea and Samaria Area, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, War Conflict
Defendant's attorneys claim client's rights as detainee violated since prosecution failed to file non-disclosure order regarding evidence within 100 days since indictment. Prosecution claims order awaits defense minister's signature Raanan Ben-Zur The...
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United Torah Judaism rejected Monday an attempt at compromise on the issue of the induction of religious women into the IDF. "The prime minister will have to offer us a different compromise if he wants to change the status quo," said MK Menachem Eliezer...
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MK Schneller: Set Rules for Hesder Yeshivot Reported: 18:44 PM - Dec/08/09 Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima), in a letter Tuesday to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, called for the establishment of a committee to...
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First Sergeant Kobi Smilag (archives) Reproduction photo: Avi Mualem Slain soldier's parents Photo: Ofer Amram In response to petition filed against deputy battalion commander by parents whose son was killed during Second Lebanon War battle, State...
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IsraelNN.com) A group of leading rabbis has scheduled a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday, following the attack by Maj-Gen Avi Mizrachi on the Har Bracha Yeshiva and his demand that the IDF cease enlisting its students.
Tags: Har Bracha Yeshiva, IDF, Israel, Jerusalem, Elon Moreh, Education, Hesder, Dov Lior, Har Brakha, Religion Belief, Avraham Shapira, Mercaz HaRav, Yeshivat Sha'alvim
After three years of fundraising, research and planning, representatives of the Ra'anana-based Benji Hillman Foundation laid the cornerstone last week for HaBayit Shel Benji, a home for lone combat soldiers. HaBayit Shel Benji is the work of relatives...
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