Word: kiryat
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Convincing the Haredi to work with police and social workers has been a struggle, says Miki Miller, a social worker in the newly built Haredi town of Kiryat Sefer near Jerusalem. "The Haredi believe that a closed society is a pure society," she says. But a closed society can hide a multitude of sins. A senior police officer in Jerusalem acknowledges that the instincts of the Haredi community to cover up such crimes undermines the authorities' ability to investigate and prosecute offenders: "We're aware of this phenomenon of sex abuse among Haredis, but an extremely low number of these...
That realization is sinking in with some socially conscious rabbis. In Febuary, Rabbi Meir Kessler from Kiryat Sefer called two late-night meetings in which 3,000 parents were urged to warn their children that even men in beards and hats are capable of evil. The rabbi's candid sermon has stirred debate among the shuttered Haredim. One stunned participant told reporters that "not since Moses" had a rabbi spoken publicly on such forbidden sexual topics. The spate of abuse cases prompted Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yona Metzger, to call on his fellow religious leaders "to vomit these parents...
...process: People discuss, but they do not really listen to each other. Since a true solution has yet to be found, the film is an achievement, simply for exploring the significant roadblocks on the path to peace. The film outwardly focuses on a suicide bombing that took place in Kiryat HaYovel, Israel in 2002. One September morning, an 18-year-old Palestinian girl, Ayat al-Akhras blew herself up in a market, taking the life of a 17-year-old Jerusalemite, Rachel Levy. The similarities between the girls were eerie. Their appearances were so alike that after the bombing, body...
...view, they are free to live a normal life, as we do. The problem is the Hizballah terrorists on Lebanese soil. Especially since 9/11, the war against Islamic militants has been a struggle of life and death. The entire world should unite around the cause of freedom. Gabe Dearborne Kiryat Bialik, Israel Israel's attacks against the infrastructure and civilians of Lebanon are absolutely disproportionate and lacking in basic human consideration. The kidnapping or killing of two or three soldiers in no way excuses the slaughter of hundreds of civilians. Israel is not playing fair. Iñaki Lopez...
...positions and supply lines - something they've carefully avoided until now, because these offer very tempting targets to Hizballah; Deploying up to the Litani wouldn't necessarily eliminate the rocket threat to northern Israel, because even Katyusha rockets fired from north of the river could hit the city of Kiryat Shmona and other Israeli population centers; Once in, the Israelis may find it difficult to easily extract themselves - the international force that would ostensibly take over does not yet exist, and there are doubts over whether it would materialize at all as long as there was a shooting war between...