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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

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Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ateret Shlomo yeshiva chain dance and sing at the wedding of the seminary chief's son, in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, March 11, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 13, 2025, 10:15 am
Outrage as students at state-funded Haredi yeshiva sing anti-Zionist, anti-enlistment anthem
‘We don’t believe in the government of infidels and we won’t show up at their [army] recruitment offices,’ sing thousands of Ateret Shlomo young men at mass wedding
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
March 2, 2025, 1:48 am
Haredi party threatens to topple government unless it gets NIS 1 billion for yeshivas
Writing to cabinet secretary, UTJ chief Goldknopf demands ‘immediate’ action on issue to ensure his party backs the crucial state budget; previous ultimatums haven’t been acted on
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man crosses a street in a Jewish neighborhood in Williamsburg Brooklyn in New York City on April 24, 2019 (Johannes EISELE / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 12:42 am
2 NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules
Schools face most significant consequences to date in ongoing fight between Haredi institutions and education officials over minimum requirements for subjects like English and math
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Asher Deutsch teaches a class in Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnai Brak in an undated photo. (Givat Hayeshiva)
January 8, 2025, 11:12 am
Till death do them part: After top rabbi dies, power struggle blazes at elite Haredi yeshiva
The split at Ponevezh Yeshiva runs so deep that it delayed the head rabbi’s funeral last month, but when it comes to the army, the question is not ‘if’ but ‘how’ to evade the draft
By Mati Wagner
Rabbi Meir Shapiro sits in the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in a photograph taken between the yeshiva's opening in 1930 and his death in 1933. The fate of the yeshiva's library under the Nazis is a subject of mystery. (Courtesy Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 am
Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up
Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them – the tip of the iceberg, he says
By Shira Li Bartov
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and youth raise placards during a protest against Israeli army conscription outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem on April 11, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 2, 2024, 5:59 pm
Ex-AG accuses government of ‘attempted regime coup’ over private counsel maneuver
Avichai Mandelblit makes accusation 2 days after the government defied the AG and allowed ministries and IDF to bypass her position on drafting of Haredi students, yeshiva funding
By Jeremy Sharon
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a prayer for the release of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, at Rachel's Tomb, near the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 28, 2024, 2:18 pm
Chief rabbi under fire for crediting yeshivas, not army, with Israel’s survival in war
Critics slam Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, with one retorting that by that logic, the rabbi himself ‘should go to jail with his supporters for their failure on October 7’
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 1, 2024, 7:36 pm
The High Court’s yeshiva funding ruling goes into effect today. What does it entail?
Starting this week, hundreds of yeshivas will see their budgets slashed, prompting leading rabbis to look abroad to raise the funds needed to continue operating
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 1, 2023, 5:05 pm
NYC says 18 yeshivas failing to teach secular subjects in accordance with state law
After eight-year probe, city’s Department of Education report finds private Hasidic schools don’t provide ‘substantially equivalent’ education to public schools
By ToI Staff
The New York Times building in New York City, May 13, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel, File)
May 7, 2023, 11:09 pm
Ahead of Pulitzers, New York Times mum on alleged unethical yeshiva reporting
Critics say coverage misrepresented data, obfuscated sources’ biases to criticize Hasidic school system; advocacy group defends reporting as shining light on ‘critical issue’
By Luke Tress
Members of US Haredi Jewish communities hold a protest before a Board of Regents meeting to vote on new requirements that private schools teach English, math science and history to high school students outside the New York State Education Department Building in Albany, New York, September 12, 2022. (Will Waldron/The Albany Times Union via AP)
January 3, 2023, 11:15 pm
US Orthodox group launches campaign against New York Times yeshiva coverage
Agudath Israel of America’s ‘Know Us’ initiative aims to push back against critical series of articles on Jewish schools, using billboards, white paper report, online outreach
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 30, 2022, 6:40 am
New York yeshivas exploit special education funding, latest NYT report claims
Private firms serving Orthodox schools are collecting more than $350 million a year in gov’t money in exchange for special education services that aren’t always needed or provided
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 13, 2022, 4:10 am
In first, New York sanctions yeshiva for falling short on secular education
Brooklyn Jewish day school breaking law by not meeting state standards, commissioner rules, yeshivas file lawsuit seeking to overturn new oversight law
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, September 14, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)
September 9, 2022, 11:23 pm
New York issues final proposal for secular education in yeshivas amid long dispute
State education department reviews 350,000 comments after releasing draft rules earlier this year; Board of Regents approval set for Monday
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, September 14, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)
March 11, 2022, 8:41 am
New York proposes new rules for secular education in yeshivas, other private schools
State Education Department outlines plan for monitoring instruction in non-public schools, part of a years-long battle over religious study in massive Jewish school system
By Luke Tress
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