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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

Aharon Leib Shteinman

Haredi r Jewish leader Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, seen in his home, in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Bnei Brak. January 22, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
December 12, 2017, 8:11 am
Rabbi Steinman, venerated leader of Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Jewry, dies at 104
Fondly known as the ‘rosh yeshiva,’ the religious authority toed line between political pragmatism and fierce opposition to IDF service
By Marissa Newman
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the arrest of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order, at the entrance to Jerusalem, on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 21, 2017, 10:55 am
Police officer injured in ultra-Orthodox draft riots
Spokesperson says law enforcement has ‘zero tolerance’ for ongoing violent protests over arrest of yeshiva student
By ToI Staff
Police arrest an ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester during continuing riots in Jerusalem against the detention of a Torah student for failing to turn up for army conscription. March 20, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)
March 20, 2017, 7:52 pm
Seven arrested as ultra-Orthodox block entrance to Jerusalem
Hundreds demonstrate in run-up to military trial of Torah student accused of evading draft
By Sue Surkes
Aryeh Deri and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, March 17, 1999. (Flash90)
January 5, 2015, 8:13 pm
As its leader Deri fights for his political life, Shas teeters with him
Flourishing on the strength of Ovadia Yosef’s spiritual leadership and Aryeh Deri’s deft skills, Shas was an electoral fixture and source of Sephardi influence for 30 years. Yosef died a year ago; Deri is maneuvering desperately to prevent the party passing too
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Students at Chachmei Lev Yeshiva pose with their teacher, Nechamia Steinberger, Jerusalem, November 26, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
December 17, 2014, 9:15 am
New school struggles to serve ultra-Orthodox nonconformists
Introducing diversity to Israel’s Haredi educational landscape is proving exceedingly difficult for Rabbi Bezalel Cohen, founder of Jerusalem’s Chachmei Lev Yeshiva
By Elhanan Miller
Eli Yishai speaks during a ceremony marking 30 days since the passing of the late religious spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardi Jewry, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on November 5, 2013. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 15, 2014, 9:26 pm
Shas the latest victim of growing left-right divide
As former leader breaks away, the old politics of identity no longer hold sway in the face of growing sectarianism
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Moshe Gafni (center) and Yaakov Litzman (right) of the United Torah Judaism party in Tel Aviv, January 2013. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash 90)
February 24, 2014, 11:43 am
Haredi leaders wary of publicly opposing draft law
‘Yair Lapid failed on the economy and will fail in this too,’ says MK Gafni, but says protests may increase Lapid’s Knesset seats
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Aharon Leib Shteinman is considered the leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian world. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
October 24, 2013, 1:19 am
Leading Haredi rabbi, 99, attacked in his home
Aharon Leib Shteinman, head of largest Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox faction, suffers light injuries
By Lazar Berman
A wall of 'Pashkvilim,' or posters bearing communal announcements, in the Jerusalem Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim (photo credit: Ben Sales/JTA)
July 3, 2013, 6:01 am
Facing possible draft, reduced subsidies, ultra-Orthodox respond with prayer
Despite apocalyptic rhetoric, Israeli Haredi population has kept relatively quiet in the face of drastic reforms
By Ben Sales
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participate at a May 16, 2013 rally to oppose the government's plan to start drafting yeshiva students into military and national service. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 16, 2013, 9:59 pm
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men rally against army service
9 cops, 3 demonstrators hurt as Jerusalem protest turns violent; 8 Haredis arrested for disturbing the peace
By Asher Zeiger
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