What is Neturei Karta, the Orthodox group at all the pro-Palestinian protests?
The fringe Haredi sect is staunchly anti-Zionist, but far from beloved by other Jews
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Fast Forward Anti-Zionist Orthodox Head To D.C. In Support Of Ilhan Omar
Neturei Karta, an international organization of anti-Israel Orthodox Jews, organized a trip to Washington, D.C., to defend Representative Ilhan Omar against claims that her comments have been anti-Semitic. The group went Wednesday, the organization tweeted, and included rabbis and their congregants. It claims the freshman Minnesota congresswoman was “unjustly accused by AIPAC as anti-Semitic.” A…
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Breaking News Israeli Anti-Zionist Sentenced for Spying for Iran
A member of the anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox Neturei Karta sect who offered to spy for Iran was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison under a plea bargain. The Jerusalem District Court approved the sentence on Tuesday. Yitzhak Bergil, 47, was arrested by the Shin Bet security service and Israeli police in July. He was charged…
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Opinion ADL’s ‘Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups’: Blacklists Return
In June 2012, an anti-Israel billboard campaign was promoted in Los Angeles County by an organization with the cumbersome name of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The group announced the billboard campaign in a press release that went on to warn that the “Israel lobby” might try to stop the campaign. It…
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Life The Haredi Women Who Are Relegated to One Side of the Street
Every so often — recently increasingly often, it seems — I come across a story that is something like this one, which describes the growing extremism in the form of misogyny of the far-right edge of Orthodox Judaism. The Ynet article states: A group of ultra-Orthodox men took to the streets of the haredi neighborhoods…
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Life Offbeat Israel: This Purim, a Monkey Costume Would Be Unwise
Oh dear. Two monkeys have escaped from Jerusalem’s Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, better known as the Biblical Zoo — the same zoo at which Rabbi Marc, an Asian lion, resides. The monkeys broke free yesterday morning, and at time of writing one has been found but the other is still on the loose. It’s hard…
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