Haredim
Want to ask Eli Spitzer questions about his essay on the rising influence of haredi Judaism? He’ll be speaking live on Zoom this week with a journalist, a researcher, and a haredi rabbi.
Sensitivity to victims cannot dictate everything a society does. But there’s no excuse for ignoring accusations of sexual assault.
The balance of power in the Jewish world is shifting to the ultra-Orthodox. Can conflict with the current establishment be avoided?
It’s hard to point to a fundamental disagreement between the religious Zionist and haredi communities.
Incentivizing better Orthodox schooling is less legally fraught, more politically appealing, and more likely to succeed in practice than forced regulation.
Toward a ḥaredi environmentalism.
The Jewish state’s COVID-19 doctrine.
Those who defend ḥasidic yeshivas against increasing state regulation have conjured up an unrecognizable fairy-tale world. But the arguments of the state’s defenders are even worse.
Visible and invisible Jews.
They may not be celebrities or social-media influencers, but they are helping the Jewish people in profound ways.
Sometimes politics do end at the water’s edge.
The lessons of powerlessness.
She hopes one day to represent Ḥaredim in the Knesset.
Why do Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews so adamantly decline to serve in the military—and could that change? A communal leader walks us through the deliberations taking place.
