The Jewish Worker

We tend to think of polygamy as favoring the man not the women. Yet, the Saudi press is reporting a story where a woman only agreed to accep...

The following ads are really interesting and show what is going on in the Charedi world. The first ad is a cheap knockoff of all the Tzeda...

On Yom Haatzmaut, a member of the Edah Charedis Beis Din, R' Yehoshua Rosenberger from Bet Shemesh, called R' Shteinman a  מסית ומדי...

Here is a key quote: based on the power of the Torah we know that all of the problems are caused by husbands walking with their wives in ...

The Israeli tax authorities have started questioning many Charedim who made weddings recently. They are asking them where did they get the m...

Many Charedi stores have a sign on the door that women should only come in if they are dressed tzniusly (skirt, socks, shirt covering the ne...

Hamodia today published an article suggesting that the Charedim set up an autonomous self governing region in Israel. Autonomous meaning ful...

The mayor of Bnei Brak was number 7 on Yahadut Hatorah's list and therefore resigned as Mayor after the national elections and moved on ...

With all of the talk about budget cuts and how the Charedi world is going to suffer and lose a lot of government money, this post ( Should K...

For some years now, not eating chametz that was sold to a גוי has become a very popular chumra. As I pointed out a few years ago ( Not eatin...

This happened this year in Bnei Brak, a bakery opened right after Pesach and sold freshly baked bread and Harav Shriel Rosenberg paskened th...

If you read the Charedi press it is patently clear that the current situation is all about money. The charedi world can only survive on gove...

I get both Hamodia and Mishpacha (Hebrew) delivered every week and I was very disappointed by their Pesach editions. Both Hamodia and the Mi...

The Mishpacha magazine in both English and Hebrew had a cover story about the Boyaner Rebbe in their big Pesach issue. What was most interes...

One of the lesser known facts about the Israeli governments support for Torah learning is that until now the government has provided money t...

Here is some initial analysis of the new Israeli government. I. Who is in the government and who is out As I predicted right after the e...

As a followup to yesterday's post where I detailed how much money the average Charedi gets from the government today (and may lose with ...

This number appears as a big headline on the front page of yesterday's (Tuesday 3/11) Mishpacha newspaper. Here is how they came to thes...