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May 21, 2024, 2:10 pm

Charedi charities to host mental health awareness event for parents

British Friends of Mayanei Hayeshua and Noa Girls team up on Wednesday 22nd May to champion emotional wellbeing and eating disorder support in teenage community

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 15, 2023, 1:10 pm

OPINION: Inspiring high-tech start-ups in London’s Charedi community

An incubator has the power to create a brighter future for tech, the UK Charedi community and Israel, writes Motti Eichler, founder of Achim Global.

By Motti Eichler

Hadera, Israel. 27th Mar, 2022. Medics transport the body of a victim into an ambulance where two people were killed by gunmen in Hadera. Credit: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa - ATTENTION: graphic content/dpa/Alamy Live News

March 31, 2022, 3:22 pm

Israel buries its dead as new wave of terrorism emerges

These three attacks mark one of the worst outbreaks of violence on Israel’s streets since the end of the Second Intifada 20 years ago.

By Michael Daventry

The gunman was filmed brandishing at rifle at passers-by in Bnei Brak (Photo: Hadmama)

March 29, 2022, 6:56 pm

Five killed by gunman in Bnei Brak terror attack

The incident in a suburb east of Tel Aviv comes days after two earlier terror incidents claimed by Arab Israelis linked to the Islamic State group

By Michael Daventry and Jeremy Last in Israel

Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a polling station in Bnei Brak, Israel, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

April 5, 2020, 11:34 am

A third of Bnei Brak residents tested for coronavirus are positive

34 percent of mainly-Charedi residents who’ve been tested have the disease, compared to six percent in Tel Aviv and 10 percent in Jerusalem

By JTA

December 24, 2019, 12:56 pm

Torah scroll set alight in attack on West Bank synagogue

Vandals burnt Jewish scripts, destroyed prayer books and emptied contents of cabinets and shelves onto the floor

By JTA

Leo with the Sefer Torah marking the opening of the new centre

October 23, 2019, 10:07 am

New Israeli rehab centre for children opens in memory of British couple

ALEH’s 'game-changing' Bet Chayil Centre in Bnei Brak was dedicated in honour of Salomon and Ruchi Noé, parents of philanthropist Leo Noé, in a ceremony with Rabbi Lord Sacks

By Jewish News Reporter

Moshe Lebowitz, Healables. Credit: Shai Dolev

September 6, 2019, 11:38 am

Voice of the Jewish News: New tech champs

This week's Jewish News editorial reflects on a landmark London conference celebrating Orthodox innovators

By Jewish News

Moshe Lebowitz, Healables. TechSpace in Shoreditch. Credit: Shai Dolev

September 3, 2019, 4:58 pm

Orthodox Israeli entrepreneurs pitch to UK investors in London

Israel’s Ambassador Mark Regev welcomes Charedi innovators from six companies based in the Jewish state in lead-up to landmark City event

By Stephen Oryszczuk

A Dan bus labelled mehadrin, which served the ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods in the city of Bnei Brak. Photo taken in January 2006. (Wikimedia/קהילות יעקב)

March 26, 2019, 12:11 pm

Charedi rabbi claims: ‘Israel worse than Nazis over gender segregated buses’

Prominent rabbi in the right-wing United Torah Judaism party, Rabbi Aviezer Piltz says Israel is worse than the Nazis as it won't separate men and women

By JTA

The Jerusalem District Court building in East Jerusalem. (Screen capture Google Maps)

September 24, 2018, 2:25 pm

Charedi radio station fined for keeping women’s voices off the air

Kol Berama handed a hefty fine of over £200,000 by Jerusalem District Court for refusing to allow female voices on the airwaves

By JTA

Thousands of Charedim protest against construction work on the sabbath. Photo by: Reuven Kastro

September 24, 2018, 2:17 pm

Thousands of Charedim protest against Shabbat train work in Tel Aviv

More than 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets to sing songs and urge the construction work to halt on Saturday

By JTA

December 6, 2017, 3:06 pm

Striking images in contention for Israel’s best press photo of 2017

Prayers, protests and prime ministers make the cut for shortlisted photographs from the Jewish state this year

By Stephen Oryszczuk

October 27, 2017, 1:54 pm

Graffiti at Charedi school brands Israeli president a ‘Nazi apostate’

Disparaging remarks about Israel's head of state Reuven Rivlin daubed at a school he visited earlier this year

By JTA

Ultra Orthodox Jewish men being arrested by Israeli police as they block a road during a protest in Jerusalem, Israel, 19 October 2017.

Photo by: JINIPIX

October 20, 2017, 9:43 am

Dozens arrested during Charedi ‘day of rage’ against IDF conscription

More than 100 Orthodox demonstrators detained for protesting against compulsory service in the Israeli army

By JTA

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