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Illustrative: Students at Bar Ilan University, November 21, 2024 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 10, 2026, 9:46 am
Top universities come out against legislation to expand gender segregation in academia
Tel Aviv University head: ‘Real, tangible danger’; Hebrew University says legislation would cause ‘direct harm to academic freedom’; Bar Ilan says quality of research would be harmed
By ToI Staff
Children learn about the customs of Rosh Hashanah at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh, central Israel, October 1, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
January 21, 2026, 7:46 pm
Jerusalem daycare deaths put spotlight on longstanding gaps in Haredi early childhood care
Data from 2022 suggests that hundreds of unlicensed nurseries for ages 0-3 operate in Israel amid a countrywide lack of educational and security standards
By Rossella Tercatin
Ultra-Orthodox girls walk to school in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, on August 30, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 23, 2025, 11:06 pm
Weeks into school year, some Haredi girls still at home due to discrimination
For almost two months, entrenched bias against Israelis of Sephardic origin has left some ultra-Orthodox students without a place to study
By Rossella Tercatin
Ultra-Orthodox extremists opposed to the draft protest and clash with police outside a conference honoring Haredi soldiers, in Jerusalem, January 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 21, 2025, 10:32 am
October 7 changed Israel forever. But the ultra-Orthodox? Not so much, report suggests
Israel Democracy Institute’s study indicates that Haredi solidarity with the rest of society was transient
By Rossella Tercatin
Ultra-Orthodox men dance during a special celebration marking the end of Hanukkah, in Meron, northern Israel, on January 2, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)
January 9, 2025, 3:08 pm
Haredi men’s employment growth stalls, income gap with mainstream Israel widens – study
Alongside turmoil over low military draft rates, Israel Democracy Institute report raises alarm over Haredi men’s limited progress integrating into workforce
By Mati Wagner
'Pink Lady' film director Nir Bergman and screenwriter Mindi Ehrlich, at the Tallinn, Estonia film festival on November 23, 2024. (Courtesy, Tallinn Film Festival)
November 24, 2024, 9:42 pm
Israel’s Nir Bergman wins director’s prize in Tallinn
‘Pink Lady’ explores taboo gay male relationships in the ultra-Orthodox world
By Jessica Steinberg
Jewish influencer Ellie Zeiler (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/via JTA)
September 20, 2024, 7:52 am
‘My life felt meaningless’: Jewish influencer swaps jet-setting for Jerusalem
Ellie Zeiler enrolls in a seminary for Orthodox young women in the capital and is set to focus her content on life as an observant Jew, becoming first major influencer to do so
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Supporters of Malky Berkowitz (Images courtesy of Adina Sash)
September 15, 2024, 12:47 am
New York woman at center of Orthodox ‘sex strike’ receives her divorce
Malky Berkowitz, who married her husband after a 15-minute in-person meeting, alleged he physically assaulted her and was sexually inappropriate with their three-year-old daughter
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)
March 24, 2023, 4:23 am
A fake reality show trailer shines light on the real issue of US child marriage
Founded by a former Haredi woman, the organization Unchained at Last releases ‘Unseen Housewives’ to raise awareness that such arrangements are still legal in 43 states
By Jon Kalish
Rachel Jackson, a scribe and prayerbook designer, writes a Megillat Esther, or Book of Esther, in this photo from 2017. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Jackson)
March 7, 2023, 10:22 pm
In Orthodox communities where women don’t read Torah, Purim offers rare opportunity
Over the decades, women’s Megillah readings have moved from cutting-edge to squarely within the norm, marking the growth of Orthodox feminism and its expression in Jewish ritual
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Esther Hecht, the emissary to Auckland, New Zealand, speaks at the annual conference for Chabad women emissaries in New Jersey, February 2023. (Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)
February 17, 2023, 4:17 am
Chabad women gather in the US once a year. The rest of the time, there’s Instagram
Over 4,000 of the Hasidic group’s emissaries from far-flung locales around the globe meet for annual event in NJ to share strategies and enjoy a moment of in-person connection
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Brooklyn Orthodox influencer Adina Miles-Sash, aka 'Flatbush Girl,' held a livestream event one Instagram on January 14, 2023, where a man flashed her and thousands of other participants. Some commenters blamed her for the incident, but many also supported her. (Courtesy via JTA)
January 20, 2023, 3:51 am
Orthodox influencer Flatbush Girl hunting man who flashed online session of 3,000
Adina Miles-Sash is looking to press charges against the possible serial flasher, and wants answers on why men in her religious circle aren’t condemning his behavior
By Jacob Henry
Students at an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2023, 8:58 am
Haredim are fastest-growing population, will be 16% of Israelis by decade’s end
Group includes 1.28 million people in 2023; Haredi women increasingly joining workforce while men’s numbers stagnate; poverty rate twice as high as in general population
By Judah Ari Gross
Screenshots from Orthodox Instagram accounts that announced they would be shutting down after an anti-social media rally in New Jersey in June 2022. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)
July 3, 2022, 5:01 am
Orthodox women who built businesses, friendships online are being told to sign off
10 years after an ultra-Orthodox anti-internet rally filled a NY stadium to capacity, ladies are urged to attend similar gatherings pressuring them to give up their smart phones
By Jackie Hajdenberg
An aerial view of the town of Binyamina in northern Israel on April 12, 2008. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
February 20, 2022, 10:55 pm
In first, ultra-Orthodox woman tapped to lead a local religious council
Rivka Azriel to oversee religious services in Binyamina; will be the 2nd woman to ever hold such a position, but the 1st to be appointed by a cabinet minister
By Judah Ari Gross
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