“On Monday, a secret Hezbollah munitions bunker in South Lebanon blew up under mysterious circumstances, injuring a senior official in the organization. This is the second such incident in recent months. The first occurred on July 14, when an explosion destroyed a major Hezbollah munitions dump in the South Lebanese village of Hirbet Salim. Hezbollah […]
“Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Ravid ruled Tuesday that the mother from Mea Shearim suspected of starving her toddler son will remain under house arrest and will not be separated from her children. Judge Ravid, however, ruled that she and her children must remain outside of the Jerusalem haredi neighborhood and that they will be […]
“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 […]
“During a hearing in the Jerusalem District Court to discuss the terms of the Meah Shearim mom’s release, Justice Moshe Ravid indicated he is inclined to accept the state’s position, that the mother and her children must be relocated to another home, outside of Meah Shearim, to permit social services professionals access and an ability […]
“An Israeli man continues fishing at a lake despite the ultra-Orthodox Jews who have gathered to perform the Tashlich ceremony on September 24, 2009 in Ramat Gan, Israel. Tashlich, which means ‘to cast away’, is the practice by which Jews go to a flowing body of water and symbolically ‘throw away’ their sins during the […]
” The mystery was soon resolved, with the appearance at the door of Rav Sholom Mordechai Hoffman, a respected member of the Toldos Aharon chassidus in Yerushalayim, accompanied by his son Chaim Zavil. The faces of the two shone with the ethereal joy of the performance of a rare mitzvah. Chaim Zavil, his youthful countenance […]
“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 […]
“Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the Israeli government outside of the UN Headquarters in New York September 22, 2009. ” DayLife.com
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 […]
“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. […]
