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(RNS) — The draft exemptions, long a flashpoint issue in Israeli politics, have become even more fraught since the start of the war in Gaza, as Israel has called up over 300,000 reservists to active service while still exempting Haredis studying Torah. 

The Decision Came After Pressure From the Ultra-orthodox United Torah Judaism Party

If the Haredi Leadership Had Been Asked in Advance Whether to Boycott Angel Bakery, They Would Have Almost Certainly Told the Twitter Activists Not To

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Cultural sensitivity for me, but not for thee

(RNS) — The current Supreme Court, where a new New York law is likely to end up, isn't prone to do so.

Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik attends an event in Jerusalem on August 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) JTA — Three times on Sunday, January 31, Orthodox men carried the body of a beloved Torah scholar wrapped in a black and white prayer shawl through the streets of Jerusalem to a freshly dug grave. First there was Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the 99-year-old heir to a vaunted tradition of Talmud study. A few hours later it was Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, the 98-year-old leader of a pr...