Haredi
The Latest
-
Opinion Lingo of the Sarah Silverman Controversy
The Jewish Press set off a firestorm last week when it published An Open Letter to Sarah Silverman by Rabbi Yaakov Rosenblatt. The Orthodox author criticized the comedian’s politics, vulgar presentation style, and the fact that she remains childless. As a linguist, what I found most interesting about this article was the language. By looking…
-
Life Battling Over Women’s Bodies in Modi’in
This Sukkot, there is a religious battle going on in the city of Modi’in, Israel, and as often happens in such battles, it is being fought over women’s bodies. It actually started this past Passover, when the open, mixed city of Modi’in was inundated with visitors from the neighboring ultra-Orthodox town of Modi’in Illit, also…
-
News Gender Segregation Hits Israel Airwaves
As on talk radio everywhere, the announcers on Israel’s Radio Kol Barama are constantly urging listeners to call in — so long as they’re the correct gender. The most popular religious radio station in Israel, Kol Barama, a biblical phrase that in colloquial Hebrew today means “quality voice,” took to the airwaves three years ago…
-
Breaking News Wary of Orthodox, Bus Ads Omit All People
In order to avoid any possibility of featuring women in ads and angering the ultra-Orthodox, the Egged bus company and the Canaan Media advertising company have decided to stop using any photos of people in Jerusalem bus ads. The decision appears to have been confirmed according to correspondence between Canaan Media and the lawyer representing…
-
Breaking News Israeli Salt Removes Woman From Package
A package of Salit table salt typically features the familiar blue silhouette of a woman holding a pinch of salt but on this particular package, the woman was nowhere to be found. Jerusalem has already seen the disappearance of women from billboards and the ads on the sides of buses. Some of the incidents are…
-
Life Gender Segregation at El Al
The American legal system decided decades ago that there is no such thing as “separate but equal.” Segregation is just a fancy word for discrimination. And being forced to the back of a plane — or a bus — is the same as saying you’re not good enough to sit in the front. Debra Ryder,…
-
Opinion Anonymous Pamphlets Underline Haredi Splits
The monochromatic ocean of Haredim at the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv last month concealed a deeper undercurrent of dissent. Elyashiv, the acknowledged leader of the Ultra-Orthodox Lithuanian community, had roped together two competing factions among a group usually seen as monolithic. There are the conservatives, led by Shmuel Auerbach of Jerusalem, as well…
-
Culture The Disappearing Yiddish Accent
They say that Yiddish has been dying for the past 200 years. Up until about 50 or 60 years ago, saying as much was kind of a crude bluff, but now it would be a lie to say that Yiddish hasn’t been severely diminished. According to UNESCO’s most recent list of endangered languages, Yiddish falls…
Most Popular
- 1
Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
- 2
Fast Forward Was the viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
- 3
Culture How my odious cousin Roy Cohn was responsible for creating Donald Trump — and me
- 4
Culture New conspiracy theory just dropped — Jews are causing the hurricanes
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Netanyahu’s government is serving Iran’s strategy — not fighting it
-
Fast Forward NYPD hate crimes unit is investigating alleged assault on pro-Israel leader
-
Culture When Robert Moses laid waste to the Jewish Bronx, was he trying to obliterate his Jewish heritage?
-
Culture Will Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally resemble a fascist one from 1939?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism