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Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Ponevezh Yeshiva gather in a study hall in Bnei Brak, November 19, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
December 4, 2025, 5:39 pm
Legally iffy and loophole-laden, new Haredi draft bill a recruitment boon… for yeshivas
Legislation will not raise number of ultra-Orthodox joining army, but will incentivize enlistment in religious schools and working on the sly or staying poor, critics say
By Sam Sokol
A student stands outside of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, August 6, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
August 8, 2025, 7:04 am
Students at flagship Jerusalem yeshiva dismiss danger of arrest as IDF cracks down
‘Every day in [my prayers] I say that I am ready to die for the sanctification of God’s name,’ says student at Mir Yeshiva, insisting that he would rather go to jail than enlist
By Sam Sokol
Ari Goldman speaks at Yeshiva Stories in New York City, July 11, 2023. (Phylisa Wisdom via JTA)
July 17, 2023, 2:55 am
At NYC event inspired by The Moth, yeshiva grads roast their religious upbringings
Speakers at Yeshiva Stories decry the lack of secular education in religious institutions and tell some harrowing and humorous tales of life in the ultra-Orthodox world
By Gabe Friedman
Ultra Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Abraham Ambon in Jerusalem on May 3, 2021. Amnon was one of the victims of the Meron disaster, where 45 people were crushed to death during a Lag b'Omer celebration. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 3, 2021, 12:51 pm
45th Meron burial: Hundreds attend funeral of Argentinian student
‘I am so broken,’ laments father of 21-year-old Abraham Daniel Ambon; funeral was delayed until his family arrived and was attended by Deri
By ToI Staff
A billboard by YAFFED in front of a yeshiva, asking parents to think about their sons' secular education. (Courtesy)
January 14, 2021, 4:47 pm
Hasidic man cites lack of schooling in US mercy plea for laundering drug money
Canadian citizen Zalman Zirkind faces up to 14 years in American federal prison on charges; says little secular education led to financial desperation in supporting large family
By Shira Hanau
A Jewish man and a child stand on a street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, April 24, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
January 20, 2020, 3:32 am
Proposed NY law would force Orthodox yeshivas to teach basic secular subjects
In theory, private religious schools are required to offer comparable education to public ones, but some grads leave barely speaking English; new regulations would up enforcement
By Josefin Dolsten
Aaron Hahn Tapper (Barbara Ries © 2013/via JTA)
March 12, 2017, 9:23 pm
Jake Tapper’s professor brother Aaron writes an introduction to the range of ‘Judaisms’
The challenge to research and validate his mother’s Conservative conversion becomes a catalyst for the future academic’s text on Jewish identity
By Andy Silow-Carroll
Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox students studying at a yeshiva. Bnei Brak, September 11, 2016. (Flash90)
March 6, 2017, 1:57 pm
Yeshiva funding hits all-time high, as number of full-time seminary students rockets
Coalition agrees to pump extra NIS 50 million into yeshivas
By Sue Surkes
Shoshana Ciment
April 20, 2016, 3:19 pm
Shoshana Ciment
So…not ‘the most amazing time’
The gap year gets such high billing that participants risk missing what is meaningful as they hunt for the incredible
August 9, 2014, 3:23 am
Orthodox educator Rabbi Elimelech Meisels sued for sexual assault
Civil suit in Illinois court seeks reimbursement of four students’ tuition fees for alleged assault in Israeli seminaries
By JTA
Ultra-Orthodox men from Yeshivat Toldot Aharon, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 10, 2013, 2:38 am
Feeling pain of budget cuts, yeshivas see drop in enrollment
Education Ministry reports that 4,400 fewer Haredi males have opted for full-time learning this year, after living stipends slashed
By Debra Kamin
AirTran Airways' 737 aircraft (photo credit: courtesy AirTran)
June 18, 2013, 12:13 pm
BBFKs: Badly behaved frum kids
An internal Yeshiva report concludes that in kicking 100 students off a plane, AirTran Airways’ actions were inappropriate, but not anti-Semitic
By ToI Staff
Airport troubles (illustrative photo: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
June 4, 2013, 8:27 am
US yeshiva kids kicked off flight
Student says they were targeted because they were religious
By Gavriel Fiske
December 9, 2012, 8:24 pm
A Hanukkah hootenanny
Members of Conservative youth movement Noam sing about the light that can be shared with the world
By Jessica Steinberg
Thousands of Israelis take part in a protest march against the government's economic policy, Tel Aviv, Saturday. (photo credit: Tali Mayer/Flash90)
August 4, 2012, 11:09 pm
Eight arrested as TA rally ends with police dispersing protesters
‘Unified’ social justice demonstration passes off fairly quietly, though some low-level violence as rival factions try to make themselves heard. Protesters held after trying to block intersection
By Yoel Goldman and Yifa Yaakov
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