“Einstein supported a “homeland” for Jews in Palestine, but he opposed a Jewish state “with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power.” Since two-thirds of the population of Palestine consisted of Arabs, he preferred bi-national status with “continuously functioning, mixed, administrative, economic, and social organizations.” Only cooperation with Arabs, led by “educated, spiritually […]
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 […]
“At the behest of MK Zevulun Orlev (Jewish Home), Rabbi Metzger prepared a detailed, 20-page Halakhic [Jewish legal] opinion, in which he wrote that Netanyahu’s reforms “violate the Torah’s commandments that ‘the Land must never be sold forever’ and ‘not to allow foreign elements to gain proprietorship over the Land.’” “ more@IsraelNationalNews.com
“A Jewish immigrant from North America (L) receives an Israeli flag upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv July 7, 2009. Some 232 Jews from North America arrived in Israel on Tuesday. “DayLife.com
“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 […]
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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 […]
“Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, a leading national-religious rabbi, has declared war on what he says is a neo-Reform stream within the religious Zionist camp. “This justifies tearing the clothes [in mourning – ed.] and tearing apart the public,” he told an audience of religious youth from the Ezra movement a few weeks ago. A recording of […]
