Hmmm... Report claims R. Elyashiv zt"l and R. Ovadia Yosef signed off on Haredi IDF unit

The Haredi website Kikar Shabbat (link in Hebrew) is reporting on a claim by former IDF spokesman Avi Bnayahu that Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv...

Haredi MK's blast Bennett's plan for yeshivas

Several Haredi MK's have blasted Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett's plan to limit the number of yeshiva student exemptions f...

Dr. Ben Carson on White liberals... and Israeli Leftists

Dr. Ben Carson is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, who has gotten a lot of publicity since this speech about two mont...

Something the Haredim and the IDF can agree on: Who wants to use Bar Refaeli?

The Foreign Ministry thought they had a great idea: Use 'supermodel' Bar Refaeli as a spokesperson for a new public relations campai...

Let the circus begin!

More details have been released about the coalition agreement as it relates to the Haredi draft and religion and state. For the new legislat...

Details of Haredi draft compromise emerge

Take this with a grain of salt, because I will be amazed if it passes in the form discussed here, but this report in JPost claims that Hared...

The Haredi draft controversy is just another round in a very old battle

34 years ago, when I was a bochur (unmarried man) in a religious Zionist yeshiva, Golda Meir passed away. As is often the case when someone ...

'All hell has broken loose'

Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party leader Naftali Bennett has become an errand boy between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yesh Atid leader Yair ...

It's come to this: Likud gives Lapid an ultimatum

Remember the 57 MK scenario? The prime minister’s associates have talked about forming a coalition of 57 MKs, and then telling Bennett ahead...

Some religious Zionists unhappy with Bennett

Here's a letter (link in Hebrew) from the heads of Jerusalem's Yeshivat Har HaMor, a religious Zionist yeshiva, who are very much op...

They support yeshivas, don't they? Haredim to lose all housing benefits

Everyone - and I do mean everyone - in Israel gets a government mortgage to buy their first apartment. Now, the government (specifically the...

The media's greatest detective, and Europe remains focused on what is truly important

The Tribal Update presents the true story of Kusra and Esh Kodesh, as revealed by the greatest investigator of all time, and brings you a gl...

Senior Haredi journalist calls for boycotting the 'territories'

I'm sorry but this goes too far. A senior Haredi journalist who writes for HaModia (the newspaper of Agudath Yisrael, which appears in b...

'The Haredim will thank Bennett one day'

There's a lot of acrimony in the Haredi handouts (the free newspapers) in the last couple of days about being in the opposition as the r...

Watch Netanyahu pull a rabbit out of his hat?

Israel HaYom, the Adelson-owned free daily newspaper that is close to Prime Minister Netanyahu, is reporting that the Prime Minister may be ...

Netanyahu associates unhappy with Haredi exclusion from government

Some close associates of Prime Minister Netanyahu are unhappy that Haredim are being systematically excluded from his new government. Netany...

Report: Jewish Home and Yesh Atid ignore plan to resolve Haredi draft, seek instead to liquidate Haredi observance

One of the free Haredi newspapers that gets put in our mailbox (this one is called Merkaz HaInyanim - the Center of Affairs) is reporting th...

Lapid admits he rejected all coalitions with Haredim

Prime Minister Netanyahu got a 2-week extension to put together a coalition on Saturday night. One reason he needed the extension is that Ya...

Great open letter to Naftali Bennett

Rabbi Lazer Brody writes a great open letter to Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett. You and I both know the values that one learns in ...

Netanyahu invites Lapid to join government

I don't know why anyone ever thought this would not happen. Prime Minister Netanyahu has invited Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid to jo...