Haredim
Avigdor Lieberman cuts in half the number of hours of religious study necessary to receive financial support from the government.
A new hasidic art gallery grows in Brooklyn and is already bucking stereotypes. Can it survive, and what does it suggest about contemporary Orthodox life?
The decline of multiculturalism bodes ill for religious minorities.
Missed the live event? Catch the recording here of Eli Spitzer speaking live on the rising influence of haredi Judaism 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.