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An opinion poll released in March 2016 by the Pew Research Center found high support for a halachic state among religious Israeli Jews.The poll found that 86% of Israeli Haredi Jews and 69% of non-Haredi Orthodox Jews support making halakha Israel's legal code, while 57% of traditional Jews and 90% of secular Jews oppose such a move. [3]
Halakha (/ h ɑː ˈ l ɔː x ə / hah-LAW-khə; [1] Hebrew: הֲלָכָה, romanized: hălāḵā, Sephardic:), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho (Ashkenazic: [haˈlɔχɔ]), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.
Therefore, they maintain, that Maimonides did not consider them to be Halachically binding. [28] A member of the Haredi community, Rabbi Chaim Walkin points out in his book, Da'at Chaim, that Maimonides discussed the Three Oaths only in the Epistle to Yemen, but not in his Halachic work, the Mishne Torah. R.
A Jewish woman wearing a sheitel with a shpitzel or snood on top of it A shpitzel ( Yiddish : שפּיצל ) is a head covering worn by some married Hasidic women. It is a partial wig that only has hair in the front, the rest typically covered by a small pillbox hat or a headscarf . [ 37 ]
Hapoel HaMizrachi was formed in Jerusalem in 1922 under the Zionist slogan "Torah va'Avodah" (Torah and Labor), as a religious Zionist organisation that supported the founding of religious kibbutzim and moshavim where work was done according to Halakha. [2]
Anusim (Hebrew: אֲנוּסִים, pronounced; singular male, anús, Hebrew: אָנוּס pronounced; singular female, anusá, אֲנוּסָה pronounced, meaning "coerced") is a legal category of Jews in halakha (Jewish law) who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will, typically while forcibly converted to another religion. The ...
Following the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the U.S. and world has witnessed a massive rise in antisemitic incidents that has many Jews concerned about their security.
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva ( Hebrew : ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism .