Yeshiva

Watered-down Charedi draft bill set to become law after coalition compromise

A re-drafted version of the law is set to relax requirements for yeshiva students to enlist and reduce penalties for draft dodging

By Jacob Jaffa

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Yeshiva students protest the detention of Ariel Shamai on October 27, 2025 (Image: X)

Charedi

Yeshiva students co-opt hostage symbols for anti-conscription protest

By Jacob Jaffa

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America

Studying in a Miami yeshiva: Long days of study, hands-on outreach, and no regrets

By Binyamin Jayson

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The Shas party has confirmed it will vote to dissolve the Knesset in a row over Charedi enlistment in the IDF (Pictured: Shas leader Aryeh Deri; Image: Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Netanyahu coalition on the brink as key Charedi party to vote for Knesset dissolution

By Jacob Jaffa

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United Torah Judaism chair Yitzchak Goldknopf is reportedly pushing to a bill to dissolve the Knesset over the Charedi draft law (Image: Flash90)

charedim

Charedi parties threaten to force fresh elections over IDF draft law

By Jacob Jaffa

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths block a road in Bnei Brak as they protest against their conscription into the IDF, April 1, 2024 (Credit: OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF

Israeli defence ministry begins drafting Charedi Yeshiva students

By Daniel Ben-David

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Yeshiva

UK’s first cross-communal yeshivah ‘exceeds expectations’

By Gaby Wine

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Brooklyn Yeshiva to pay $8M fine over 'pervasive culture of fraud and greed'

Among the academy’s crimes were paying staff off the books, requesting non-existent meal reimbursements, and subsidizing parties with federal grants

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

October 26, 2022 10:49

Brooklyn Yeshiva to pay $8M fine over 'pervasive culture of fraud and greed'

Yeshivot: There is a possible compromise - but will either side agree to it?

Simon Rocker analyses the standoff between Charedi Jews and the government over measures in the Schools Bill

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

June 16, 2022 10:01

Yeshivot: There is a possible compromise - but will either side agree to it?

'Hands off our yeshivot or we'll leave Britain,' warn Charedi demonstrators at Westminster

A crowd of 200 protesters took to the streets outside Parliament on Wednesday to express their opposition to measures in the new Schools Bill

By Felix Pope

3 min read

June 16, 2022 09:30

'Hands off our yeshivot or we'll leave Britain,' warn Charedi demonstrators at Westminster

By Noa Gendler

As a woman studying in a Jerusalem yeshiva, Israelis have no idea what to make of me

I'm past being annoyed, even though my kind of religious, egalitarian Judaism is popular elsewhere

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February 23, 2022 09:24

As a woman studying in a Jerusalem yeshiva, Israelis have no idea what to make of me

Yeshiva

Watered-down Charedi draft bill set to become law after coalition compromise

Yeshiva students co-opt hostage symbols for anti-conscription protest

Studying in a Miami yeshiva: Long days of study, hands-on outreach, and no regrets

Netanyahu coalition on the brink as key Charedi party to vote for Knesset dissolution

Charedi parties threaten to force fresh elections over IDF draft law

Israeli defence ministry begins drafting Charedi Yeshiva students

UK’s first cross-communal yeshivah ‘exceeds expectations’

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