“Question: Should we relate to non-Zionist Rabbis reservedly and in a unpleasant manner? Answer: G-d forbid that such an idea should enter your mind! We are obligated to honor all Torah scholars, even if there are sharp differences of opinion between us and them, and anyone who scorns a Torah scholar is in the category […]
“Israel’s defense minister has ordered the army to use massive force to impose a freeze on construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In the event of violent protests, troops will isolate areas set for demolition and jam the cell phones of settlers. Elite anti-terrorist units will be deployed, and the air force will […]
Golda Meir proposed limiting aliyah of handicapped Polish Jews
By Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondent
“In 1958, then-foreign minister Golda Meir raised the possibility of preventing handicapped and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel, a recently discovered Foreign Ministry document has revealed.”A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
” 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 […]
“Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the hareidi-religious Jew who heads the Zaka emergency service, said Thursday that hareidi demonstrations will continue. Interviewed by Arutz 7, Meshi-Zahav said that the public does not recognize the dynamic under which the community acts. He explained that the community does not recognize the secular state and that demonstrations are the community’s only […]
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky sent a letter to Religious Affairs Minister Ya’acov Margi last week in which he rejects Margi’s claim that only Orthodox institutions are eligible for state-funded religious services.”I was surprised to read your statements in The Jerusalem Post in which you claim that only institutions that are run in accordance with […]
“If this case was dealing with another population other than frum chareidi women, those responsible would most likely be the subject of a police investigation, Kikar Shabbat reports, but since this is the case, the modesty religious sensibilities of this segment of the population may be trampled, with impunity. According to the report, this is […]
“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 […]
