Haredim
For many members of Israel’s haredi community, loyalty is signaled by rendering oneself useless in the outside world.
They’re not anti-Zionist. They’re not right-wing extremists. They’re not even against birth control.
How might haredi men be persuaded to depart from their yeshivas and start working? The brilliant writings of an idiosyncratic rabbi can help lead the way.
How a misunderstood minority can help spur the Jewish state’s economy and repair its tattered social fabric.
Most American Jews have aspired to win acceptance and have been prepared to pay a price for it; haredi Jews have striven to fit in. . .
Should the desire to study exempt an Israeli Jew from military service? In all but a few cases, the answer, according to Jewish law (halakhah),. . .
Non-Orthodox Jews know whom they look down on: namely, their Orthodox and especially their ultra-Orthodox brethren. Too many know little else.
Highly publicized worries about the role of religion in Israeli public life rely on a false view of Israeli politics—and a gross misunderstanding of Judaism.
What the martyrdom of the rabbi of the Warsaw ghetto can teach us about true courage and devotion to others.
Holocaust museums have slighted the ultra-Orthodox victims of Nazism; their stories must be heard.
Instead of blaming recent government cutbacks for their poverty, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox should take a cue from the Talmud and get a job.
The decision of the new British chief rabbi to attend a non-denominational conference is a courageous act—which says much about the sorry state of British Orthodoxy.
With greater participation of haredim in the life of the country, will secular Israelis shed their reflexive contempt for this community and learn something from. . .