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Delivered before a group of about 30 people, Schwarzberg’s lecture, entitled “Sefer Yonah: The Climax of the High Holidays,” explored the significance of the story of the prophet Yonah on a day known by Jews as the Day of Atonement...
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...
...copies in 37 languages; in Switzerland. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Kishon fled to Israel, where he wrote news columns, novels, plays and films. Although he never found a wide audience in the English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren of my executioners queue up at my readings," he once said...
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his election campaign this spring. TIME's Eric Silver reports from Jerusalem that the new housing is part of a plan drawn up years ago but shelved under the Labor governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. The new apartments will be in Kiryat Sefer, a settlement of strictly observant Jews that is essentially a suburb of Jerusalem. Observant Jews traditionally have large families, creating population pressure in existing orthodox communities, so the new apartments should fill quickly. Silver says that other than being on the wrong side of the "Green Line" separating Israel...