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Haredi Paper Censors Women’s Shoes

Ultra-Orthodox press censorship is breaking its own records: The Hamodia daily, one of the United Torah Judaism party’s official journals, decided to “erase” women’s shoes from a picture of a shoe drawer published in a news report, likely due to “modesty concerns.”The haredi sector’s daily newspapers, which operate under the strict supervision of a “spiritual committee,” have an old tradition of ...

Haredi Leaders Issue Call to Arms for Election

After months of infighting and internal bickering, the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) United Torah Judaism party kicked off its election campaign in earnest this week under the slogan “We are all haredim.”On Tuesday, the rabbinic leaders of two of the largest hassidic communities in the country called on the haredi community to enlist in the electoral campaign to increase the community’s political ...

Haredi Kids’ Paper Shuns Israeli Flag

On the eve of Independence Day, the Israeli flag seemed to adorn virtually every home and car across the country; but it was hardly mentioned in an article published that day in an ultra-Orthodox children’s paper, which featured a thorough review of the flags of the world.Last week’s edition of the paper, Haverim (“Friends”), which accompanies the haredi weekly Bakehila ...

Haredi Growth Absent in Talk on Jewish Future

Two panels debating a broad range of issues affecting the Jewish world took place at the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday, but one hot topic that was recently in the news received little attention.“It was the elephant in the room,” said Dov Waxman, associate professor of political science at the City University of New York, who was in the audience. ...

Haredi group takes on Christian converts

Haredi organization Yad L’Achim is launching a struggle against 1,000 Christians’ intent to convert to Judaism, make aliyah, establish cooperative kibbutzim beyond the 1967 lines – and settle there.Following the publication of a Ynet article outlining the initiatve, the organization’s chairman Rabbi Sholom Ber Lifshitz claims that those involved in the initiative are missionaries whose goal is to bring Jews ...

Haredi ‘Gadol’ Does Not Know What A Music CD Is

Several years ago, Rabbi Shteinman did not understand how a credit card worked. His grasp of the world around him doesn’t seem to have grown in the ensuing years. Rabbi Shteinman also had nearly a million dollars of charity money stolen from his unguarded home while Rabbi Shteinman was at a meeting in the West Bank.Now Rabbi Shteinman doesn’t know ...

Hamodia Regrets Omitting Chabad

A heated discussion in the comments of leading community news service COLlive.com has led the Jewish Orthodox daily Hamodia to publish a clarification.Chabad readers were furious over an apparent omission of Chabad’s crucial role in the building of the Jewish communities in North Miami Beach, Portland, Las Vegas and other cities.What sparked the uproar was an interview they held with ...

Hamming it up: Kosher ‘pork’ coming soon

If the dream of tasting pork – that most forbidden of forbidden foods – has always been yours, then dream no longer. And if you thought the idea of a rabbinically approved slice of swine was less likely than a flying pig, then think again.Because kosher “pork” is coming to a butcher near you – that is to say, organic ...

Hamas: We Communicated with Obama Administration

Hamas’s Gaza government published a report Sunday detailing communications it has had with the American government, in an effort to establish a channel of communication with it on diplomatic matters. The report by the “general secretariat of the Hamas government” enumerated the government’s accomplishments in the first six months of 2010.The letters to the United States were transferred to the ...

Hamas official hints Israel killed Italian activist to intimidate future Gaza flotilla members

Hamas indirectly accused Israel on Friday of engineering the killing of an Italian Palestinian peace activist in Gaza in order to intimidate other foreign activists hoping to sail to Gaza as part of the next flotilla.“Such an awful crime cannot take place without arrangements between all the parties concerned to keep the blockade imposed on Gaza,” Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar ...

Hamas official detained in Egypt believed to have information on Shalit

Egyptian officials confirmed Sunday that they had arrested a top Hamas intelligence chief over the weekend believed to hold important information regarding abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, according to Channel 10.Relatives of Gaza-based Mohammed Dababish say he was arrested at Cairo airport while returning from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.Read More: @ haaretz.comYou might also like: Hamas: Israel trying to extort us ...

Hamas MP among 6 detained by Israel overnight

Israeli forces detained Hamas MP Khalil Ar-Rabai from his home in the southern West Bank town of Yatta on Thursday morning, bringing back up to ten, the number of elected Legislative Council members detained by Israel.Family members of Ar-Rabai said troops surrounded then entered the home, then conducted a search of the building, causing damage to property.The official, who was ...