Orthodox Jews in the ultra-religious enclave of Monsey, New York, rallied on Sunday for former President Donald Trump — as former President Barack Obama was telling Jewish voters in Wisconsin that Trump is antisemitic.
Israel now boasts the dubious distinction of the highest rate of daily coronavirus infections per capita in the world. An Israeli television report made the claim, citing data from Johns Hopkins University.
Israel’s army said on Sunday that the number of women serving in its combat units had reached a record level this year as it seeks to further boost such participation.
JERUSALEM — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews from a radical sect are again blocking roads in Jerusalem bringing traffic to a standstill and scuffling with police and passers-by.
JERUSALEM – Nine people were arrested in violent clashes that erupted in Jerusalem Sunday between police and several hundred ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist Israelis protesting a recent Supreme Court ruling that rejected an amendment to a draft law, effectively ending that community’s exemption from IDF service.
Israeli security forces rushed to the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday to rescue ultra-Orthodox Jews stoned by Palestinians as they visited a Jewish shrine, police said.
The Independent reports: A Holocaust survivor who was told to move seats on a flight so an Ultra-orthodox Jewish man would not have to sit beside a woman has said the rule is “not in the Torah”. Renee Rabinowitz is now suing Israel’s national airline
The Independent reports: An 81-year-old retired lawyer whose family came to Israel after fleeing the Nazis during the Second World War is suing Israel’s national airline after staff moved her to another seat because an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man refused to sit
Ynetnews.com reports: Three ultra-Orthodox Jews were attacked in London by a group of anti-Semites on Wednesday evening, who threw gas cylinders at them and shouted “Hitler is on the way.” The attackers fled, and no one was hurt in the incident.
