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The term most commonly used by outsiders, for example most American news organizations, is ultra-Orthodox Judaism. [8] Hillel Halkin suggests the origins of the term may date to the 1950s, a period in which Haredi survivors of the Holocaust first began arriving in America. [9] However, Isaac Leeser (1806–1868) was described in 1916 as "ultra ...
Chabad's main website Chabad.org, is one of the first Jewish websites [136] and the first and largest virtual congregation. [137] [138] It serves not just its own members, but Jewish people worldwide in general. [139] Other popular Chabad community websites include asktherav.com, anash.org, CrownHeights.info, and the Hebrew site, COL.org.il ...
Jewish Yemenite women and children in a refugee camp near Aden, Yemen in 1949. According to Jewish religious law , a married woman must cover her hair Married observant Jewish women wear a scarf ( tichel or mitpahat ), snood , hat, beret, or sometimes a wig ( sheitel ) in order to conform with the requirement of Jewish religious law that ...
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men on Wednesday blocked a major Jerusalem intersection, snarling traffic and crippling public transportation across the city, in a demonstration against an attempt to ...
Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Tanakh's injunction against shaving the "sides" of one's head. Literally, pe'a means "corner, side, edge". There are different styles of payot among Haredi or Hasidic, Yemenite, and Chardal Jews
The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.
The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army — a landmark ruling seeking to end a system that has allowed them to avoid ...
This is a list of Orthodox synagogues around the world. In the United States and Canada, many Orthodox synagogues are affiliated with Chabad , the National Council of Young Israel , or the Orthodox Union .