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Charedi protesters outside parliament as Schools Bill debated
January 13, 2025, 10:53 am
OPINION: Schools Bill isn’t about safeguarding, it attacks religious freedom and parental rights
Misrepresentations of Charedi schools undermine diversity and the principles of true liberty, writes the president of the British Rabbinical Union
By Rabbi Asher Gratt
Hundreds of Strictly Orthodox Jews protested outside Westminster as MPs inside Parliament debated a bill which could outlaw the Charedi practice of educating their children in religious Jewish institutions not currently recognised by the government
January 10, 2025, 9:46 am
OPINION: Charedi leaders don’t believe their own rhetoric and neither should you
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is urgent and does what it says on the tin: it ensures the wellbeing of all youngsters, including Charedi children
By Yehudis Fletcher
Charedi protesters outside parliament as Schools Bill debated
January 8, 2025, 5:06 pm
Schools Bill ‘like living under Stalin’ claim Charedi leaders
Around 250 members of the Strictly Orthodox community stage protest outside parliament as School Bill has second reading in Commons
By Lee Harpin
Yellow stars on display at latest strictly orthodox schools protest
January 3, 2025, 11:23 am
Charedi leaders step up protests against Schools Bill ahead of Commons debate
Rabbi Weiss claims move to regulate home-schooling 'designed to hinder religious practice'
By Lee Harpin
Donna-Thomas_-Head-of-Early-Years-at-Hackney-Visiting Jewish school-in-Stamford-Hill. Pic: Courtesy
December 4, 2024, 2:16 pm
OPINION: Charedi schools are counting the cost of Labour’s budget
Thousands of Orthodox Jewish and Muslim children face losing their schools due to new government action. Can a simple fix prevent this?
By Motty Pinter
Charedi women; (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
September 9, 2024, 7:24 pm
OPINION: The denial of education in the Charedi community is a human rights issue
'I left school to attend university, whereas some graduate into early marriage and motherhood', writes activist Eve Sacks
By Eve Sacks
Charedi protesters wearing yellow stars in protest against proposed governmental regulation of religious schools
September 9, 2024, 1:19 pm
Jewish group urges government to tackle Charedi ‘education deficit’
Nahamu warns home-schooled strictly-Orthodox children and those attending yeshivas cannot read and write or understand basic mathematics
By Sandy Rashty
Charedi Jews being targeted with water cannons in Jerusalem during a protest
June 25, 2024, 1:05 pm
Ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted into army, rules Israel’s Supreme Court
Judges ruled 9-0 that Haredi men can no longer be exempted from IDF service
By Francine Wolfisz
Mayanei Hayeshua Mental Health Building
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
Yellow stars on display at latest strictly orthodox schools protest
March 15, 2024, 11:25 pm
Yellow stars worn again at latest Charedi pro-yeshiva demo
The latest demo against the proposed Register Bill took place in Parliament Square and at the Department for Education headquarters. 
By Lee Harpin
Jewish students at JCoSS
September 5, 2023, 10:03 am
Pupils at Charedi schools outnumbers Jewish kids in secular Jewish schools
New research from The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) also asks whether Jewish enrolment levels in UK Jewish primary schools has peaked.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Avrohom Rabinowitz died in paragliding accident in the Swiss Alps
August 24, 2023, 2:39 pm
Manchester father dies in a paragliding accident in the Swiss Alps
Avrohom Moshe Rabinowitz was a member of Manchester's Charedi community
By JN Reporter
A Charedi wedding. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90
April 27, 2023, 11:51 am
OPINION: Does the Bloom Review into faith go far enough?
In the wake of the landmark government faith report, Yehudis Fletcher argues we should never settle for intolerable harms in the name of religious tolerance
By Yehudis Fletcher
Rabbi-Moshe-Sternbuch Pic__Ezra-Landau
April 4, 2023, 10:36 am
EXCLUSIVE: World’s foremost Charedi leader brands Halpern a ‘gangster’
Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch in Jerusalem called Rabbi Chaim Halpern, mired in sexual abuse claims, a “gangster” who should be removed from post.
By Jenni Frazer and Adam Decker
Some of the current startups on the BizLabs programme
March 17, 2023, 12:08 am
Charedi startup founders showcase their tech innovations
A selection of ultra-orthodox entrepreneurs will pitch to investors in London next week as part of the BizLabs 'scalerator' programne, created to help Charedis scale their startups
By Candice Krieger
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