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A man accused of being an undercover Christian missionary living as an ultra-Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem (Screencapture/Channel 13)
April 26, 2021, 4:08 am
Shock in Jerusalem community as ‘rabbi’ outed as undercover Christian missionary
Family has been supported by ultra-Orthodox community after mother died of cancer, father worked as scribe and mohel; investigators say they faked being Jewish to move to Israel
By TOI staff
Part of the technical area of the Eurovision stage in Tel Aviv, May 5, 2019. (Thomas Hanses, Eurovision)
May 6, 2019, 7:25 pm
UTJ freezes coalition talks in protest of Eurovision work on Shabbat
Senior lawmakers ask why thousands of permits were suddenly issued for preparations to be made for song contest final while the Saturday sun is still in the sky
By TOI staff
Donald Trump holds a question-and-answer session with Jewish reporters at his offices at Trump Tower, New York, April 14, 2016. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
November 2, 2016, 12:58 pm
Judaism’s greatest mystical text ‘predicts Trump victory,’ Israel GOP head reveals
Citing an unnamed ultra-Orthodox expert on the seminal ‘Zohar’ work, Marc Zell says Trump campaign staffers in US were ‘amazed’ at the news
By TOI staff
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally with Vice President Joe Biden (L) in Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/DOMINICK REUTER)
August 25, 2016, 6:17 pm
In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox press, Hillary Clinton is invisible
Democrat’s potential ascension to presidency is renewing debate in some Haredi circles over acceptability of photos of women
By Daniella Cheslow
Screenshot from a video showing the burning of an Israeli flag in Mea Shearim during Lag B'Omer celebrations on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
May 30, 2016, 6:40 am
Israeli flag burned in Lag B’Omer festivities in Mea Shearim
Young child slowly torches flag to cheers and applause from audience in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood
By TOI staff
MK Hanin Zoabi speaks to the press on February 17, 2015 (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
February 9, 2016, 2:20 pm
Justice minister, ultra-Orthodox balk as MK suspension bill races ahead
Shaked says measure ‘not the solution’; UTJ demands booting of legislators who deny Israel is Jewish and democratic, incite, or support terror
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: The 2015 Netanyahu government as photographed on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, with womens faces pixelated by the ultra-Orthodox Behadrey Haredim website. (Flash 90)
June 4, 2015, 6:10 am
They would have blurred Golda Meir’s face, too
The ultra-Orthodox papers’ censorship of women’s faces has been entrenched for decades, experts point out, and hardly represents a shift to radicalization
By Marissa Newman
A religious Jewish soldier is embraced by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family member after a swearing-in ceremony for the IDF Nahal Haredi unit, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2012 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 5, 2014, 8:42 pm
Shunning taboo, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox seek to volunteer for IDF
‘We want to show both the army and our own public that there is a different way of doing things,’ says Haredi coordinator
By Elhanan Miller
An ultra-Orthodox couple at a cemetery (illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 7, 2012, 10:12 am
Come on dad, we’re moving: Family transfers grave because of inappropriate ‘neighbors’
Two sons secretly exhume their rabbi father’s remains eight years after his death
By Aaron Kalman
July 12, 2012, 7:37 pm
Police recommend indictments in ultra-Orthodox internet blackmail scandal
Website allegedly extorted hundreds of thousands of shekels from rabbis, politicians and other public figures by threatening to publish defamatory information about them
By Michal Shmulovich
Illustrative photo of Jewish worshipers praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City (Matanya Tausig/Flash90/File)
June 20, 2012, 5:27 pm
Ram tries to pray in sheep’s clothing
Mentally ill ultra-Orthodox man tries to pray in female section of the Western Wall
By Aaron Kalman
May 6, 2012, 3:26 pm
Five ultra-Orthodox school heads arrested for fraud
One of the men held is also accused of involvement in Internet extortion scandal
By Shira Rubin
The CEO suspected of blackmail is brought in front of a judge on Wednesday (screen caption of Channel 2 News/Mako)
April 11, 2012, 4:26 pm
Police ‘harassing’ CEO of ultra-Orthodox website, attorney claims
Man suspected of repeated blackmail to be held in custody for five additional days
By Aaron Kalman
A Haredi neighborhood of Jerusalem. (illustrative photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
April 2, 2012, 9:07 pm
Blackmail allegations against ultra-Orthodox website
Directors arrested on suspicion of extorting money from public figures
By Ilan Ben Zion
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