Shearim

B"H Years ago, I was sharing an apartment with a female Ba'alat Teshuva. The Ba'alat Teshuva, lets call her A.  We wer...

January 2012: At the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem Photo: Miriam Woelke B"H Only chassidic teaching. The entire day ...

B”H  Chassidut Gur is starting to pray Selichot at 12.30pm tonight.  Where ? In Yirmeyahu Street  / Jerusalem.  The Belzer in ...

Photo: Miriam Woelke B"H It is not always the best positive way to only concentrate on haredi society or any Rabbi / Rebbe from today...

B"H A week full of demonstrations lays behind us. As I said before, I am sick of going to further demonstrations and smell burning g...

B"H On Shabbat, we commemorated the Yahrzeit of the famous Apta (Opatov) Rebbe, Rabbi Avraham Joshua Heshel . Rabbi Avraham Joshua ...

B"H "There are so many confusions among the Jewish world today, a friend of mine from Mea Shearim loves to say. Plenty of Jews co...

Where do I find myself as a female eating any of those fruit ? Nowhere because those events (food) are only for MEN ! Look at the fruit m...

B"H According to my own experience: Many chassidic men are one of the greatest gossips I have ever met in my life. People love to say...

B"H Who can provide further information to those pictures of different chassidic Rebbes being on vacation ? I know the Satmarer Rebbe ...

B"H To be honest: I am not the type of person lifting up a woman's wig / headcover and look if she is bald or has hair. In case she...

B"H Poland 1941: The Nazis forced Rabbi Chaim Dosman to take off his clothes in the middle of the street. Romania 1934: The Vishnitze...

B"H The Satmarer Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum survived the Holocaust due to the fact that his name was on the list of the Kasztner Train. To...

B"H Countless prejudices regarding Israeli Haredim are floating around. Not only in our country but also abroad. And sometimes I am rea...

"Let's go and demonstrate !" Fakshivili (news poster) in Mea Shearim. B"H The Israeli Ministry of Education is planning t...

B"H Just recently, someone told me the "secrets" about how especially chassidic Rebbes raise money in the UK, Canada or the U...

B"H There are things which make me really upset. Especially when it comes to the religious world. And what drives me crazy there is whe...

B"H Influencial rabbis visit their counterparts. The head of the "Edah HaCharedit", Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss (right), was v...