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Haredi Women in ‘Master Chef’ Style Competition

Three haredi women served up a veritable feast of culinary delights Monday afternoon, in a competition to find the most delectable dish in Israel for today’s large ultra-Orthodox families and bustling homes.Readers of the “At Home” supplement of the haredi newspaper Mevaser were invited to submit recipes for the competition, held at the newspaper’s annual consumer fair for ultra-Orthodox women.More ...

Haredi women go under the knife

Something is happening to our woman of valor. She is no longer satisfied with sewing and selling sheets or with making belts for Canaanites. Even compliments from her husband, sitting with the elders, do not lift her spirits anymore.Today she knows that when she gets up at night and reaches for the spindle – it will not do any good ...

Haredi Women Attack ‘Immodest’ Women

It’s 10 am on a weekday at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market. Dozens of people gather next to a vegetable booth selling second-rate tomatoes for rock bottom prices.The crowd includes four ultra-Orthodox women in their 50s. The temperature outside has reached 32 degrees centigrade, but they don’t mind. They’re here on a mission.One of them approaches a woman who shops at ...

Haredi Weekly Censors Female Holocaust Victims

One of the most famous pictures marking the atrocities of the Holocaust, was published in the haredi newspaper Bakehila (literally meaning — in the community), with the faces of all the women censored.The picture, featuring a Jewish boy in holding his hands up in submission, depicts the surrender of Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, some 70 years ago.Most of ...

Haredi teachers fail general knowledge test

A survey conducted among ultra-Orthodox teachers has uncovered a worrying lack of basic knowledge – including the words to the national anthem, Napoleon’s nationality, and even the word for Shabbat in English. Thus, for example, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily interviewed A., a 26-year old yeshiva student who tutors at a heder, or a religious elementary school, in Jerusalem.Read More: @ ynetnews.comReaders ...

Haredi Supermarket Removes ‘Modesty Signs’

The Osher Ad supermarket chain removed signs posted in its Beit Shemesh branch, asking women to dress modestly while shopping in the store.The decision to remove the signs came a day after it was reported that the store handed out black gowns to women who did not comply with the modesty code, stirring anger among female shoppers.“Dear customers, when visiting ...

Haredi Students to Join Digital Revolution

Dozens of haredi schools will be introduced this year to the digital revolution that has taken over the education system in Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday.Both the Ma’ayan HaChinuch HaTorani and the Shuvo education networks which operate some 200 haredi schools in Israel, have agreed to take part in an initial project which will incorporate digital teaching methods to the ...

Haredi Students Fail as They Lack Secular Studies

Adina Bar-Shalom, the eldest daughter of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, said on Tuesday that the lack of English and Mathematics education in haredi schools was a serious obstacle in increasing the numbers of haredim in higher education.Bar-Shalom established the Haredi College in Jerusalem, the first academic college for haredi men and women in Israel, where students can study ...

Haredi Schools Need to Meet Minimum Standards

Chairwoman of the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee MK Einat Wilf (Independence) said on Tuesday that minimal educational standards across all sectors of society should not be subject to discussion, and that all students should study core curriculum topics so they can join the work force and become full members and citizens of the State of Israel.Wilf made her comments ...

Haredi schools ignore Independence Day

As the nation watches the International Bible Quiz, the Israel Prize ceremony and the celebratory IDF flypast and flotilla on TV, and takes over the parks and nature reserves in honor of the State of Israel’s 63rd Independence Day, for tens of thousands of children it will be business as usual at school like any other day.Close to 50,000 students ...

Haredi school discrimination ruling postponed

The High Court of Justice decided on Tuesday to delay ruling on a petition by anti-discrimination group Noar Kahalacha until a clearer picture of alleged discrimination against Sephardi girls in haredi (ultra-Orthodox) schools was available.Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, who was presiding along with Justices Edna Arbel and Uzi Fogelman, recommended that a further hearing be held on July 1, ...

Haredi rabbis: Don’t volunteer in MDA

Ultra-Orthodox leaders are calling on the religious public not to volunteer in Magen David Adom, claiming that serving in the rescue organization leads to serious religious prohibitions and leads to spiritual danger.The sector’s newspapers published an ad signed by senior haredi leaders, including leader of the Lithuanian faction Rabbi Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbis Nissim Karelitz, Chaim Kanievsky, Aharon Leib Shteinman, the ...