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via Shearim “Last night, a special report about Chassidut Toldot Aharon from Mea Shearim was broadcasted on Israeli TV. The report also mentioned the “abusive” Toldot Aharon mother. The report as a whole is quite good and it really looks like Arutz 10 got a permission from Rebbe David Kahn to film.”(non tznius ads)  Here […]

A team of researches at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University has developed an algorithm that could be an important step in achieving such a database. Uri Ehrlich, a liturgist at the university, explained how it took a few years of research to locate a single page stored in a different library that matched a ancient page of text […]

“No longer are they the inward-looking anti-Zionists who only cared that the government provide them with money for their separate schools, welfare and exemptions from military service. These days, many of the Haredim – the word means “those who tremble” in awe of God” – have joined with right-wing religious Zionists to become a powerful […]

“Archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph, Cairo’s Al Ahram newspaper recently reported. Excerpts provided by MEMRI show that the coins were discovered among a multitude of unsorted artifacts stored at the Museum of Egypt. According to the report, the significance of the find is that archeologists […]

“Nobody goes to Israel for Golda Meir, I’m so sorry,” Lucas said in heavily Russian-accented English. “People don’t care that you have a great orchestra, and they’re not particularly interested in the Holocaust museum. Gay people, and straight people, want beautiful beaches, beautiful nature, beautiful men and women, good food, good hotels. Israel shouldn’t be […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminisced how, at the start of his tenure as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations in 1984, he met the Lubavitcher rebbe who told him that “you are going to the house of darkness but you must remember that even in the greatest darkness, if you light a small candle, it […]

The Vishnitz Hasidim are preparing for an influx of the sect’s followers from Israel and abroad ahead of the High Holy Days by building a 3,000-square-meter tent in a vacant lot in Bnei Brak. This year, the Vishnitz Hasidim will temporarily leave their center in Bnei Brak’s Kiryat Vishnitz neighborhood and move to the tent […]

“A Palestinian worker prays at the site of a new housing project at the Jewish settlement of Har Homa in east Jerusalem on September 7, 2009.” DayLife.com

“I am outraged by the fact that the haredim in Israel are forced “back into the closet”. They are asked to sit quietly, in the dark, while studying the Talmud as not to disturb secular Israelis with their unwanted presence. They are being informed that they must not shop at stores that desecrate the Shabbat, […]

“Following haredi pressure, Ben-Gurion Airport keeps arriving passengers in planes which land in Israel with a body in their cargo areas, until corpse is removed. Airlines demand a different solution, saying ‘torture of passengers must end’. A number of airlines demanded last week that the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) stop the “impurity of Kohanim” procedure. […]