Moshe Lion a little lost on his new home turf
His ostensible partnership with Shas’s Aryeh Deri is the ‘kiss of death’ for some voters at the Old Katamon polling station where the Likud-Beytenu underdog cast his ballot
View ArticleWhy fight when we can eat?
Despite social tensions, secular Jews are drawn to the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim for its food, Roads and Kingdoms reports
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox riot in Jerusalem against IDF draft
Hundreds crowd into key square; five arrested as protesters throw bottles at police
View ArticleThe general killed slowly by the Yom Kippur War
A smattering of family members and fellow veterans gather at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv to remember Shmuel Gonen — blamed by a generation for the losses on the southern front
View ArticleThe police spy who found his ‘brothers’ in Mea Shearim
Veteran reporter Abraham Rabinovich’s new book ‘Jerusalem on Earth’ deals with the evolution of the city in the decades after the 1967 Six Day War. This exclusive excerpt tells the story of a young...
View ArticleA portrait of an ex-Neturei Karta member as a young woman
Sara Erenthal says she was born three times: Haredi in Mea Shearim, as an IDF soldier, and today as an artist living in NY
View ArticleJerusalem bus ads featuring girls in prayer shawls vandalized
Women of the Wall campaign aims to encourage young women to celebrate bat mitzvah at the Western Wall
View ArticleFour arrested at ultra-Orthodox draft protest
Hundreds of demonstrators gather, burn trash in Shabbat Square in Mea Shearim after draft dodgers arrested
View ArticlePurim pics up for Sony prize
Photographer Gili Yaari’s series on holiday in Mea Shearim could take home World Photography Award
View ArticleIDF officer attacked in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim
Commander pelted with rocks, eggs in ultra-Orthodox area, car smashed; PM condemns ‘outrageous’ assault; Deri slams ‘act of terror’
View ArticleFormerly ultra-Orthodox youth bring their worlds to the stage
In new Israeli-German play ‘Out of Mea Shearim,’ participants find therapy by reenacting their self-imposed exiles from family
View ArticleHaredi women, the start-up nation’s abysmally underpaid backbone
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israeli women work in programming, software development and other relatively low-skill high-tech jobs. They’re often very badly paid, and deeply reluctant to do anything...
View ArticleFour injured in Jerusalem gas explosion
Blast collapses part of home in Mea Shearim neighborhood
View ArticleWashington Post reporter could soon get verdict in Iran case
American man tries to form army for Islamic State; Obama says opposition to Iran deal is all about politics; prominent rabbis set up independent conversion courts
View ArticleThousands of Haredim protest Jerusalem cinema’s Shabbat opening
Arrests reported as ultra-Orthodox men take to the streets to oppose YES Planet multiplex’s first Friday night movie screenings
View ArticleJerusalem city council to force kiosks to close on Shabbat
A number of small convenience stores in secular downtown to be shut on the Sabbath, municipality says, days after ultra-Orthodox protest Shabbat infringements in a new cinema complex
View ArticleIn Jerusalem’s culture war, secular residents make gains
Shabbat battles pit holy city’s ultra-Orthodox against city council; religious influence is on the wane amid changing demographics
View Article45 held as undercover cop busts ultra-Orthodox drugs, weapons ring
Officer, himself Haredi, buys pot, ecstasy, stolen cars, illegal firearms in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim, Ramat Beit Shemesh
View ArticleEffigy of IDF soldier strung up in ultra-Orthodox area of Jerusalem
Dummy in Mea Shearim hangs alongside sign telling people not to enter wearing uniform of ‘despicable army’
View ArticleIsraeli flag burned in Lag B’Omer festivities in Mea Shearim
Young child slowly torches flag to cheers and applause from audience in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood
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