Yeshiva students

After October 7, this haredi woman refuses to stand apart from Israeli society

Born into the heart of haredi Jerusalem, Sari Kroizer has built a religious and Israeli identity that refuses to stand apart.

Sari Kroizer.
The players are set to enter Pardes. From L: Chana Ner-Gaon, Victoria Kaufman, Tzvi Jasper, and Aaron Reich.

Entering Pardes: Discovering Jewish identity and tradition through role-playing games

A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.

Beyond the Headlines: Stronger than we think

Ohr Torah Stone’s Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School dedicated the “Hall of Heroes,” a permanent memorial honoring 25 alumni of the yeshiva who fell in Israel’s wars and terror attacks over the past decades, including 11 who fell in the past two years.

This high school’s library is now a memorial to 25 fallen alumni in Efrat


Bus carrying Yeshiva students overturns in New Jersey, one in critical condition

While the student in critical condition was initially thought to be dead, Montvale Mayor Mike Ghassali said the boy “now has a pulse” in a post on X at 9:30 p.m.

Footage of the Montvale bus crash

Daycare subsidies for children of military-age yeshiva students officially ends

The ending of the program will be a financial blow to some 7,000 haredi families.

 Jewish yeshiva students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva, in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024.

Agudat Yisrael accused of instructing yeshiva students to evade IDF draft sanctions

Recordings published in Ynet last week revealed that Agudat Yisrael party officials were instructing yeshiva students to open fictitious small businesses.

 Police officers in Bnei Brak, Israel use water cannons as haredi Orthodox Jewish men block a main highway to protest efforts to allow the state to draft Haredi yeshiva students into military service, June 2, 2024.

Fire injures seven near Chabad HQ, Brooklyn, one in critical condition

The fire was reportedly caused by a radiator plugged into an electrical outlet resulting in the apartment being completely engulfed in flames and the personal belongings of 19 students being burned.

 New York Fire Department attempts to control the blaze on Eastern Parkway, February 14, 2025.

Haredim hold prayer meeting in Stamford Hill in protest of bill threatening Yeshivas

Haredi campaigners have expressed fear that the Bill would lead to state interference in yeshivas and force them to teach secular subjects.

Asifas Tefilah, the prayer gathering, held in Stamford Hill in response to the Government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

The government needs to expand haredi recruitment into IDF - editorial

The government has to encourage a fast and vast shift within haredi society, showing that military service and keeping the faith are not contradictions.

 DESPITE THE IDF’s calculation that it needs 7,000 new troops, the vote to revive an older haredi draft bill was approved by the majority of the Knesset members.

Yeshiva students return to Kiryat Shmona, begin blood donations during severe shortage

Many of the yeshiva students have also volunteered to help in the rebuilding efforts and care for residents who were unable to evacuate.

 Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva students donating blood during a severe shortage, January 8, 2024.

'Far from simple or clear-cut': What do Israelis think about the haredi draft bill?

The Magazine spoke to Israeli men and women who have served in the army and/or have children in uniform. Here’s what they had to say about the haredi draft debacle.

 Protesters demonstrating against the High Court ruling calling for yeshiva students to draft to the IDF, June 30, 2024.

On the haredi draft: Israelis are no longer tolerating the current situation - opinion

"We need a draft so that haredim don’t drift off and evolve into a separate people not just distinct from, but separated from, the rest of Jewry. We need each other too much for that to happen."

 A haredi man and an IDF soldier pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024

Rabbi Asher Deutsch, leader of Peleg Yerushalmi, dies at 79

He previously served as the head of the Lithuanian 'Ponevezh Yeshiva' for 46 years, and has been influential in draft dodging among yeshiva students.

 Head Rabbi of Ponevezh Yeshiva (Ponevitch) Rabbi Asher Deutsch.