Haredi judaism articles
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Gov't, attorney general clash over haredi IDF enlistment
A government decision on Tuesday, to grant itself private legal representation in an ongoing Supreme Court case over the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) exemption from IDF service, contradicted the Attorney-General’s binding legal opinion and was therefore unlawful, Deputy Attorney-General Dr. Gil Limon charged in a letter to government secretary Yossi Fuchs on Wednesday.The unlawful decision harkened back to the government’s controversial judicial reforms, as it served to weaken the status...
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Read this incredible essay about Magneto, Judaism, and the legacy of the Holocaust
Over at Defector, writer Asher Elbein just published one of the single best pop culture-politics crossover essays I've read in a long time. In The Judgement of Magneto, Elbein expertly analyzes the history of the Max "Erik Lensherr" Eisenhardt — better known as Magneto, the Mutant Master of Magnetism — and how the character's shifting perceptions over six decades of publication have resonated with changing sentiments around the governing of the nation of Israel and the social functionality of...
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IDF personnel chief met with senior ultra-Orthodox leader last month to discuss Haredi conscription
The chief of the IDF Personnel Directorate met with one of the senior leaders of the so-called Lithuanian stream of ultra-Orthodox Jewry...