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Wed Aug 27

• The Upcoming Voice - Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish answer to The X Factor. No room for Mr Nasty It's got polite judges, boring outfits and safe songs - but orthodox Israel's new talent show is a winner: Polite judges aren't the only departure from the X Factor format. Traditionally, ultra-Orthodox Jews have had little or no contact with the arts. This changed in the mid-1990s, when the younger generation became fed up with going without music. A wave of musicians - mostly wedding singers who saw a gap in the market - started releasing "kosher music". Frivolous subjects such as love and sexual attraction are out, and the lyrics are usually prayers or Biblical verses. Only men are permitted to perform. The genre came into its own 8 years ago, when the Chevra, burst on to the scene with Y'hay Shlama, an upbeat pop song that set an Aramaic prayer to a Britney-esque beat. One reason for the scarcity of popular singers is that ultra-Orthodox men tend to marry and start families young, which doesn't leave much time for a musical career. Another is that education for children is heavily religious, followed by several years in Talmudic seminary;

Tue Aug 26

• Jerusalem Police against chastity squad. Meah Shearim residents agitated following wave of arrests of 'modesty guard' activists. In one of demonstrations held every evening, youngsters flip over police car in capital.: 'The chastity squad activists are doing what the police should be doing,' senior community member says. The ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Meah Shearim in Jerusalem was shaken up following the arrest of three residents suspected of being active in the haredi community' ;s chastity squad. Demonstrations in protest of the arrest were held in the neighbourhood& #039;s Shabbat Square every evening in the past week, and protesters clashed with police forces and even flipped over a police car on Yoel Street. The first person arrested 3 weeks ago was Elhanan Buzaglo, who was indicted of attacking a woman suspected of improper ties with married men in the capital's Maalot Dafna neighbourhood. According to the indictment, Buzaglo received $2,000 in return for his involvement in the attack.

Mon Aug 25

• Howard Lisnoff: The Long Silence: American Jews and Palestinians. "I have been silent as a Jew about Israel's relationship to, and treatment of, the Palestinian people and my place as an American Jew in that equation.": Jews in the US were expected to accept their roles as supporters of whatever policy Israel adopted. Those Jews who wavered would be open to the most vicious attacks. Finkelstein typifies this. After a campaign of vicious attacks aimed at silencing his scholarly criticism of Israel?s treatment of the Palestinian people and the industry that had grown up, primarily in the US to profit from the horror of the Holocaust. His books, among them The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah (2005) have drawn stinging attacks. Among his most vehement detractors is Dershowitz. The power of the Jewish lobby in the US is partially explained by studying the monetary might behind that influence. The most powerful of these organizations is the AIPAC, which had a $33 million budget.. James David reports that the Israel lobby had contributed $41M to US candidates. Stephen Zunes states that ?more than $1.5 billion in private US funds?go to Israel annually.?

Sun Aug 24

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Wed Aug 20

• In Israel, religious schools get a boost - Los Angeles Times: He is one of tens of thousands of Israeli young men studying to master the Torah and the Talmud, cloistered at ultra-Orthodox schools that shield them from secular teachings that might shake their faith. In a defining battle over the Jewish state's identity, the yeshivas are resisting pressure from secular politicians and educators to teach the basic subjects required at all Israeli secondary schools. "They want to turn us into what they see as 'enlighte ned people of the world,' who will integrate into Israeli society," he said. "But we do not want to integrate into that society, because of its many temptations.&q uot; Haredi Jews, as the ultra-Orthodox are known here, won the latest skirmish. Parliament last month legalized state funding for high school-age boys' yeshivas while reclassifying them as "cultural ly unique" schools, exempt from the obligation to add on a basic secular curriculum.

Tue Aug 19

• Set apart for God and Torah. The BBC's Erica Chernofsky in Jerusalem gets a rare insight into the lives of members of Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.: Haredim are 10% of Israeli society with a non positive reputation among secular Israelis, who view their customs as primitive and disapprove of their choice to study at seminaries and so avoid the mandatory army draft. Mrs Greenwald lives in a ultra-orthodox area. Everything is closed on the Sabbath and only kosher food is sold in shops. Like all, she dresses very modestly, covers her hair with a wig or scarf and will not allow physical contact of any kind with any man except her husband. "Being Haredi means being someone who fears God,"she says. "It means that first and foremost in life are the Torah and keeping the mitzvoth." ; "If I go on a trip with my family, I can't eat just anything, I can't go mixed swimming, and I'm constantly thinking 'what is the proper thing to do now?' As Haredim we don't just live, but with a purpose." She proudly supports her family while her husband pursues his religious studies

Sat Aug 16

• Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'. Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaime d 'chastity guards': Buzaglo and 6 more forced their way into her apartment in Jerusalem. She once belonged to the ultra-Orthodox community until after her divorce in 2005. They toppled her to the floor, kicked, gagged, and warned she would be maced and stabbed if she dare open her eyes. She was then 'interrog ated' as they tried to force her to disclose the identities of men friends. They hurled profanities throughout and threatened her life if she did not leave her apartment.

Fri Aug 15

• Twilight Zone / Night raid - Haaretz - Israel News. The IDF base, has a guard tower that overlooks the area, did not lift a finger to stop the attack, even when the family summoned them to help: 10-year-old Musa, who suffers from a hereditary skin disease, was injured while fleeing for his life. Stick-wielding settlers raided his family's encampment, and he had trouble escaping because of the sores that consume his body. He tripped and suffered a large wound in his thigh, which he shows us. He was already living in misery, ostracised at school like a leper. Now he's also scared to death, afraid that the settler-attack ers will return. Did the perpetrators of this attack from Asael - an illegal outpost of violent religious penitents - even take a look at their victims? Or at Bilal? Or at Hani? Or at least at little Majdi, just two years old and already covered with scabs? All these siblings have the same illness; all had difficulty trying to escape the hooligans, who ransacked their meager home and ruined their few possessions.

Wed Aug 13

• A remote ultra-Orthodox city. Jerusalem has for years been growing increasingly ultra-Orthodox , and its lifestyle and leadership have been formed accordingly.: For years the Jewish/ultra-O rthodox component in the Jerusalem landscape has been increasingly crowding out the colourful mosaic that characterized it in the past. Not only secular and moderate Orthodox people have become a minority in the city - the multinational and multireligious minorities that once bustled through the city's streets seem to have withdrawn in the face of ultra-Orthodox domination.

Mon Aug 11

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