Yeshiva students

Israel cannot afford Netanyahu’s capitulation to haredi demands - editorial

Netanyahu is echoing false claims about arrests in yeshivas while ignoring practical proposals that could increase haredi enlistment.

People walk past election posters for the upcoming elections in Jerusalem on October 24, 2022.
Female IDF soldiers work on a tank; illustrative.

Equality NGO Forum Dvorah slams hesder yeshivot boycott over women's integration in tank units

DF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 01, 2024.

Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment

IDF reserve Infantry and Merkava Tank soldiers train in a military exercise in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2023

Some 25 hesder yeshivot boycott IDF's tank corps over new pilot to incorporate women


Community benchmarking beneficial for Jewish schools, yeshivas to create culture of trust - opinion

Benchmarking, a practice widely used in the corporate sector, involves comparing an organization’s performance metrics with those of peers or industry standards.

 STUDENTS LEARN at the Seattle Jewish Community School.

Empty yeshiva seats are reflective of Israel's need to rebuild - opinion

This past year has proven how fragile and precious life can be. I owe it to the students who perished to give everything I can to those who now sit in their seats.

 An illustrative image of empty seats.

Sunny Isles: The mayor honored Rabbi Pinto's new Yeshiva with her presence


'Yeshiva students wrote the Matrix': New unbelievable claim from Israeli member of Knesset

During a Channel 14 panel, Likud MK Galit Distel Atbaryan falsely claimed "The Matrix" was written by yeshiva students, sparking backlash.

 Israel Ganz and Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan at the scene of the terror attack near Eli.

Grapevine August 18, 2024: Preserving and promoting Yiddish

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

A man studies in a university library.

WATCH: haredim protest draft at northern recruitment base, 12 arrested

The IDF reported that Border Police successfully kept the protesters away from the base's fences, though the police had to disperse a large number of demonstrators using tear gas.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police forces outside the IDF Michve Alon base in northern Israel, August 14, 2024

'If the army were without women, we might have been able to discuss it,' senior haredi rabbi says

"Even if there were a haredi brigade, today it would be one way, and tomorrow the another," the rabbi added.

 Haredi men dressed in traditional ultra-Orthodox garb stand behind a group of religious IDF soldiers

IDI study uncovers illegal employment among haredi Yeshiva students

"This study sheds light on the complex relationship between religious obligations and economic activity among young Haredi men," Gordon explained.

 Haredi youth works in office.

Haredi men must be drafted. What now? - opinion

The IDF needs to understand the true importance of this moment and make the right accommodations for new haredi conscripts to ease this bumpy process.

IDF recruitment office sign

Sparring in Jewish law: Rabbi Meir Eliyahu Pinto enthralled Ashdod