On Tuesday morning the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak hung an Israeli flag on its roof, honoring Israel's Independence Day. The yeshiva, located in central Bnei Brak, is unique among haredi yeshivas in ...

A short time after Judge David Hashin published the arbitration ruling in the dispute over Ponevezh Yeshiva, which granted the yeshiva's president, Rabbi Avraham Kahaneman, full control of the ...

Yeshiva students are required to declare "Torah study is his occupation" at draft offices in order to receive a service deferral. The extremist Jerusalem Faction called for protests on Wednesday after ...

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Rosh Yeshivas of Ponevezh, Lakewood and Maor HaTorah in Jerusalem were welcomed in Argentina by the local Shluchim and ...

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

Hundreds of thousands of Haredi Israelis attended the Tuesday afternoon funeral of Gershon Edelstein, an influential Ashkenazi Haredi who died in Bnei Brak earlier in the day at the age of 100. The ...