“Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visited the Shaare Chessed home of HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita, accompanied by Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus and Chareidi Affairs Advisor Avraham Kroizer. Seeking to avoid a repeat of the rock attack against the mayor during his recent visit to the Kalever Rebbe Shlita, security this time around was far more […]
“As a result, a ring has been placed around East Jerusalem that is intended to impede partition of the Israeli capital — one of the political objectives of the American multimillionaire’s acts of charity. Moskowitz makes no secret of his motives. He has compared the Oslo Accords, which were intended to encourage accommodation between Israelis […]
Yerushalayim Magistrate’s Court Judge Shulamit Dotan has placed Yenti, the Meah Shearim mother accused of starving her son, Chaimkeh, under house arrest and has ruled that she can see her other children. At the same time, askanim, led by the indefatigable Rebbetzin Yocheved Grossman, have created a website containing accurate information about the case, as […]
“Eventually she was evaluated by Dr. Weil, who was acceptable to both the State and the (ultra-Orthodox) community. Dr. Weil offered unequivocal conclusions, and determined that my client poses no danger to her children and can return home.”The police apparently found this conclusion unsatisfactory, because the district psychiatrist was called on… and in some peculiar, […]
“With regards to the lady from Yerushalayim being accused of mistreating her child;
What we have to strongly protest here, in a peaceful manner, are the barbaric actions of the police force in arresting a women who is allegedly sick according to their claims, and chaining her, putting her in a cell with dangerous criminals. If […]
“Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gesture towards a mounted Israeli police officer during a protest against the arrest of a woman accused of child abuse in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 16, 2009. Ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police using horses and water cannon to control the crowd in Jerusalem on the third day of rioting over the arrest of […]
“Immediately after the State was founded, several of our young men were arrested for “evading the draft”. They composed the song “Hashem Hu Malkeinu” while in prison. I view that as a miracle, because they knew nothing about music. ”
“I was in the Ramle prison for five months for demonstrating over the women’s army […]
“There is a difference between the desecration of the Sabbath on an individual basis and the cancellation of the Sabbath,” said Rabbi Shimon Weiss, a leader of the Eda Haredit movement, which has promised weekly protests until Mayor Nir Barkat reverses his decision. “The opening of the parking lot will bring about the opening of […]
“It was into this reverent hush, two Sabbaths ago, that 500 cheerful American and European Baptists drew up in 20 buses, having come, on tourism bent, through the Mandelbaum Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem. The Orthodox Jews of Mea She’arim were dumfounded with outrage—and none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who […]
“To make one shtreimel can take up to 400 tails of various breeds of mink, sable of fox - the scrap of the fur industry. With only 10,000 shtreimels produced around the world each year, it’s definitely what you call a niche market. But at a cost of up to $4000 each, it can be […]
Photo: An Israeli police officer pushes an ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester as they scuffle during a demonstration outside city hall near the religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Saturday, June 6, 2009. DayLife.com
Yerushalayim haB’nuyah: Analysis of T’hillim 122 By Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
“Kollel Chabad will this year, as in past years, distribute mezonos and drink to thousands and thousands of visitors to the Kosel on Shavuos. There will also be a kedusha rabba following neitz shacris. Immediately following neitz shachris at the Kosel, the large promenade area is converted to host the kedusha rabba, seeking to permit […]
