“As Rabbi Weinberger explains it—yes, the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak sect does not participate in government funded programs and does not accept subsidies from the state insurance funds for healthcare in Israel. Granted it may be an archaic approach but this is the tradition that has been handed down from generation to generation. According to our […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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Tuesday is the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Amram Blau (Bloi), and whoever is interested, the Mishkenot HaRoim group in Mea Shearim is organizing a Mishnayiot study in order to remember the famous Jerusalem character. The study is due to start in the early afternoon.Rabbi Amram Blau used to be the head of the Neturei Karta […]
