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Equality NGO Forum Dvorah slams hesder yeshivot boycott over women's integration in tank units
Forum Dvorah, an Israeli women's rights NGO, criticized hesder yeshivot for boycotting the IDF Armored Corps over a pilot program involving women tank units.
Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment
Some 25 hesder yeshivot boycott IDF's tank corps over new pilot to incorporate women
WATCH: 'All of Israel is ours': Smotrich calls to annex West Bank in Jerusalem Day speech
International yeshiva students answer IDF's call as Har Etzion breaks records
This week, 32 overseas students from the prestigious yeshiva will be drafting into the IDF alongside their Israeli peers – the highest number in the yeshiva’s 56-year history.
Bismuth elected FADC head, ousting Edelstein over haredi draft bill
Edelstein, prior to the vote, published for the first time the draft of the conscription law, which was sent to committee members.
'To Be Holy but Human': A look into the life ‘hesder yeshiva’ creator Rabbi Yehuda Amital - review
One of a kind: Rav Amital was that unique and unparalleled leader who lived at a time when he was needed the most.
Yeshiva students spat at, insulted by Arab man with knife in Lucerne, Switzerland
An Arab man with a knife approached a group of yeshiva students while shouting antisemitic insults and 'free Palestine' in Lucerne, Switzerland.
'We failed, made a mistake' on judicial reform, haredi draft bill deal, UTJ's Goldknopf says
UTJ was told to support the judicial reform as it would allow for a "basic law of Torah study," and another law as an override clause, Yitzhak Goldknopf claimed in an interview with Kikar HaShabbat.
Deri and Lapid clash over IDF draft law, sanctions on ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students
Aryeh Deri responded to the Attorney-General's discussion on the High Court of Justice consideration over the draft law and the plan to toughen sanctions against yeshiva students who don't enlist.
IDF soldiers killed due to yeshivas 'neglecting Torah study', former chief rabbi claims
Yitzhak Yosef condoled the families of the five soldiers killed in Gaza's Beit Hanun in an open letter, calling for increased Torah study, implicitly denouncing haredi draft attempts.
School vouchers would expand nationwide under federal proposal cheered by Orthodox groups
The proposal — which would create scholarships of up to $5,000 per student — marks the farthest that proponents of school vouchers have ever gotten toward expanding school vouchers nationwide.
NY state budget weakens oversight over yeshiva learning in blow to secular education advocates
The outcome represents a dramatic victory for the state’s Hasidic leaders.
Justice Kagan speculates about publicly funded yeshivas
Kagan’s line of questioning comes as New York recently closed multiple yeshivas that were not abiding by a state law requiring all schools to adequately teach basic secular subjects.
