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"No being can stand in their presence": Torah scroll dedicated in memory of Binyamin Achimeir z”l

Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, pictured in 2014.

Netanyahu’s English saves his coalition? Rabbis drop draft ultimatum in private call

By MAARIV , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A yeshiva school bus drives through Broolyn on Sept. 12, 2022.

Three more New York City yeshivas lose status and funding over secular education standards

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

Using donations to force change in Haredi draft row.

Taking from Israel and refusing to serve: Why haredim draft refusal is hard to swallow

By JPOST EDITORIAL

MK MOSHE GAFNI, chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, leads a committee meeting last week. ‘Why would a country willingly fund institutions that seek its downfall? The sad answer is politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs the haredim in his coalition,’ says the writer.

The IDF needs soldiers but Israel is paying yeshivas to dodge the draft

Footage of the Montvale bus crash

Bus carrying Yeshiva students overturns in New Jersey, one in critical condition

By Mathilda Heller

Jewish yeshiva students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva, in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024.

Daycare subsidies for children of military-age yeshiva students officially ends

By ELIAV BREUER

Police officers in Bnei Brak, Israel use water cannons as haredi Orthodox Jewish men block a main highway to protest efforts to allow the state to draft Haredi yeshiva students into military service, June 2, 2024.

Agudat Yisrael accused of instructing yeshiva students to evade draft sanctions

By ELIAV BREUER

New York Fire Department attempts to control the blaze on Eastern Parkway, February 14, 2025.

Fire injures seven near Chabad HQ, Brooklyn, one in critical condition

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Asifas Tefilah, the prayer gathering, held in Stamford Hill in response to the Government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Haredim hold prayer meeting in protest of bill threatening Yeshivas

By Mathilda Heller

DESPITE THE IDF’s calculation that it needs 7,000 new troops, the vote to revive an older haredi draft bill was approved by the majority of the Knesset members.

The government needs to expand haredi recruitment into IDF

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva students donating blood during a severe shortage, January 8, 2024.

Yeshiva students return to Kiryat Shmona, begin blood donations during severe shortage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Protesters demonstrating against the High Court ruling calling for yeshiva students to draft to the IDF, June 30, 2024.

'Far from simple or clear-cut': What do Israelis think about the haredi draft bill?

By Rivkah Lambert Adler

A haredi man and an IDF soldier pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024

On the haredi draft: Israelis are no longer tolerating the current situation

By AHARON E. WEXLER

Head Rabbi of Ponevezh Yeshiva (Ponevitch) Rabbi Asher Deutsch.

Rabbi Asher Deutsch, leader of Peleg Yerushalmi, dies at 79

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jerusalem Day at the Kotel

War in Israel leads to unexpected increase in enrollment at American yeshivas

By Benjamin Edidin

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef during a shaharit prayer in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, September 17, 2024.

'Throw them in the toilet': Yitzhak Yosef urges students to 'tear up' draft orders

By YAKI ADAMKER

New York: The Hilula of Rabbi Chaim Pinto “The Younger” at the Yeshiva of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto

By Mark Fish