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 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?

 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

 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

Rabbi Pinto: Most problems arise because people don’t know how to make decisions

By David Berger
 IDF SOLDIERS pray during a break in a haredi unit’s training exercise. If haredi parents and rabbinic leaders could be assured that their sons would complete their service as they entered – as observant, ultra-Orthodox Jews – there would be more grassroots support, the writer maintains.

Be careful what you wish for: The haredi draft is a societal challenge the IDF can solve

By AVI ABELOW
 An illustrative image of haredi residents of Jerusalem's Ramat Eshkol neighborhood.

Haredi daycare bill: What is it and why should we care?

 Students pray after listening to Sapir Cohen, a freed Israeli hostage, speak during an Evening of Unity event at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women on August 27, 2024 in New York City.

‘I’m an American, but I’m also Jewish’: How Orthodox women in college are voting for president

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 Dan Illouz, former Jerusalem City Council Member

Likud's Dan Illouz digs in on haredi draft, defying Netanyahu

 Haredi men dressed in traditional ultra-Orthodox garb stand behind a group of religious IDF soldiers

Golknopf agrees to drop IDF draft bill in exchange for approval of daycare subsidie

Shas chairman Arye Deri.

Gov't doing 'everything' to extend yeshiva students exemption from IDF service, Deri says

 Rabbi Dov Lando seen during a meeting to discuss the drafting of Ultra orthodox jews to the IDF in the Ultra orthodox city of Bnei Brak, April 5, 2024.

'No young man will go to the army': Senior rabbi dissuades yeshiva students from IDF service

 A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked traffic and the light rail  in Jerusalem demonstrating against a Haredi draft into the IDF. February 26, 2024.

Gov’t again defies A-G, aims to continue subsidies for draft-age haredim

 STUDENTS LEARN at the Seattle Jewish Community School.

Community benchmarking beneficial for Jewish schools, yeshivas to create culture of trust

By ODELIA EPSTEIN
 An illustrative image of empty seats.

Empty yeshiva seats are reflective of Israel's need to rebuild

Sunny Isles: The mayor honored Rabbi Pinto's new Yeshiva with her presence

By Mark Fish