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Hareidi Youth to Bear Olympic Torch

A hareidi-religious young man from London will be among those carrying the Olympic Torch in Britain this summer. Efraim Goldstein, 22, was chosen due to his long history of volunteerism.Goldstein had established seven volunteer organizations by the age of 16. The groups he set up now have a total of several hundred volunteers.Efraim currently volunteers for the Shomrim Patrol, an ...

Haredim Working on Alternative to Machne Yehuda Market

The haredim are pushing forward an initiative to establish a market that will serve as an alternative to the Machne Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. The reason – events held at Machne Yehuda include women’s singing. A suitable location was found a few days ago, a 10 dunam area between Sanhedria and Mount Hotzvim.The initiative to establish the alternative market was ...

Haredim spend average NIS 1,300 on clothes for High Holidays

Ahead of the High Holidays, the haredi public spent about NIS 100 million (about $26.7 million) on clothes for their families, according to a study performed by Mutagim Market Research for the haredi sector of Habetzefer Advertising School.The survey was polled 500 respondents representative of 100,000 haredi households in Israel.Read More: @ ynetnews.comReaders found more information by searching for:haredi clothing (28)haredi clothes (15)jewish ...

Haredim petition High Court over Jaffa construction

The Eda Haredit organization has asked the High Court of Justice to halt the construction work on Jaffa’s Andromeda Hill development.Three members of the ultra- Orthodox group, which recognizes neither the State of Israel nor its legal establishment, on Thursday filed a petition to the court against Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas), Religious Services Minister Ya’acov Margi (Shas), the Antiquities ...

Haredim: Let us smoke in peace

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman is being criticized from within his own public, after the government approved a national plan to help reduce smoking in Israel.In recent days, the deputy minister’s office received many complaints from members of the ultra-Orthodox sector over the decision to raise cigarette prices.Read More: @ynetnews.comYou might also like:Netanyahu’s cabinet votes to draft more ultra-Orthodox into IDFHealth ...

Haredim irked by ad showing Western Wall

A huge ad was hung recently on the fence of a compound in Jerusalem where the new Mashbir Lazarchan structure is being built. The ad shows three members of the cast of Israeli sitcom “Ramzor” on the backdrop of the holy site. A new advertisement of the Mashbir Lazarchan department store has managed to offend the ultra-Orthodox and national religious ...

Haredim Gloat at Livni’s Downfall

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth? Walking down the haredi street less than 24 hours after Tzipi Livni lost the Kadima primaries, one might wonder whether the haredi community has read that specific phrase in the book of Proverbs.From the moment the results of the Kadima primaries were revealed – awarding the position of chairman to MK Shaul Mofaz – the ...

Haredim Foresee Growing Employment Rates in Sector

A recent study conducted by the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry predicted that Israel will see a 6% drop in its workforce within 20 years, especially due to the growing ultra-Orthodox and Arab population shares. But activists in the religious sector dismiss the forecast, noting the growing rates of employed haredim.“I don’t see the pessimistic predictions coming true,” said attorney ...

Haredim Declare War on Smartphones

Rabbis of the extreme Eda Haredit faction have waged war against a new technological enemy: Smartphones in general, and Apple products in particular.Pashkevilim (religious ads) published in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods last weekend, claim the iPod, iPad, Blackberry and iPhone may deteriorate children’s education to “bottomless pits”.According to the ads, the rabbis are lashing out at the devices as they allow ...

Haredim caught defacing non-kosher deli

Two ultra-Orthodox residents of Jerusalem were arrested after being caught by police in the act of vandalizing a deli that sells non-kosher meat.Police say the two arrived at the deli after morning prayers Saturday and smeared vomit on the door and windows of the establishment.Avi Ben-David, who runs ‘Iwos Deli’, said that after months of being persecuted he decided to ...

Haredi world mulls acceptance of civil unions

As the Ashkenazi haredi establishment grapples with senior Sephardi adjudicator Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s recent endorsement of the military conversions, a new initiative is reportedly seeking to galvanize the haredi rabbinic leadership in favor of expanding the option of civil unions in Israel.The rationale behind the notion, first reported Thursday in the haredi weekly Mishpacha, stems from the concern expressed time ...

Haredi Women Threaten not to Vote

The Shas and United Torah Judaism parties may have joined forces over the petition filed against them over the exclusion of women in their Knesset lists, but not everyone in the ultra-Orthodox public shares the opinion that Jewish religious laws ban women from serving as parliament members.A group of haredi women believe a woman is allowed to “come out of ...