There are ultra-Orthodox Haredim in a few yeshivot, Lubavitch focused on religious education, modern orthodox in Paris ( synagogue of Montevideo street and Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue ), consistorian Jews who are the majority following the grand rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim ( elected for seven years on 22 June 2008 ), Masorti Jews present in Paris and following the rabbi Rivon Krygier, and other smaller groups.

Rabbi Lichtenstein was the outspoken leader of the Haredim in Hungary: he not only resisted the slightest deviation from the traditional ritual, as the removal of the Almemar from the center of the synagogue, but even vigorously denounced the adoption of non-Jewish social manners and dress and the acquisition of secular education.

Haredim are currently primarily located in Israel, North America and Western Europe, with smaller pockets in other places such as Johannesburg, South Africa.

In Israel, Haredim are sometimes referred to as " blacks " ( Hebrew " shechorim ") by the seculars, a derogatory reference to the black clothes they typically wear.

* Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz ( leader of Haredim in Israel )

* Rabbi Elazar Shach ( leader of the Lithuanian community of Haredim in Israel )

The non-participation of Haredim in Yom HaShoah is one of the points which regularly causes friction between Haredim and non-Haredim in Israel, as non-Haredim consider the Haredi position of ignoring the siren and Yom HaShoah altogether to be disrespectful.

The center's prominent position on the Jerusalem skyline quickly brought it notice by the religious conservatives, or Haredim, of Israel.

In modern Israel Lita ' im ( Lithuanians ) is often used for all Haredi Jews who are not Hasidim ( and not Hardalim or Sephardic Haredim ).

The secular Zionist establishment would not allow the established Haredi community in Palestine to be represented in the Jewish Agency in the 1920s. In response, the Haredim founded an Agudat Israel branch in Jerusalem to represent their interests in Mandate Palestine.

A late-20th-and early-21st-century phenomenon, in which urban and suburban areas of Israel, such as Beit Shemesh, have become demographically and politically dominated by Haredim at the expense of non-Haredim ( including Religious Zionists and Hilonim ) has become known as Haredization ; the trend is often the subject of protests in various Israeli cities.

Haredim have also sometimes perceived arguments for liberalization as in reality stemming from antagonism to Jewish law and beliefs generally, arguing that preserving faith requires resisting secular and " un-Jewish " ideas.

This is one reason that Haredim will often prefer using Hebrew names for rabbinic titles based on older traditions, such as: Rav ( denoting " rabbi "), HaRav (" the rabbi "), Moreinu HaRav (" our teacher the rabbi "), Moreinu (" our teacher "), Moreinu VeRabeinu HaRav (" our teacher and our rabbi / master the rabbi "), Moreinu VeRabeinu (" our teacher and our rabbi / master "), Rosh yeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), Rosh HaYeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), " Mashgiach " ( for Mashgiach ruchani ) (" spiritual supervsor / guide "), Mora DeAsra (" teacher / decisor " the / this place "), HaGaon (" the genius "), Rebbe (" rabbi "), HaTzadik (" the righteous / saintly "), " ADMOR " (" Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabeinu ") (" our master, our teacher and our rabbi / master ") or often just plain Reb which is a shortened form of rebbe that can be used by, or applied to, any married Jewish male as the situation applies.

Haredim ), is a term used to describe the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, often referred to by outsiders as ultra-Orthodox.

Haredi Judaism is not an institutionally cohesive or homogeneous group, but comprises a diversity of spiritual and cultural orientations, generally divided into a broad range of Hasidic sects, Lithuanian-Yeshivish streams from Eastern Europe, and Oriental Sephardic Haredim.

Estimates of the number of Haredim globally are difficult to measure, due to its imprecise definition, lack of data collection and rapid change over time.

More generally, a range of other expressions are used among Haredim ( and outsiders ) to describe themselves and others in the community, such as Yidn ( Jews ), erlekhe Yidn ( virtuous Jews ), frum ( pious ), heimish ( home-like, i. e. " our crowd "), yeshivish and Anash ( anshei-shloimeinu – members of our community ).

Another important factor in the reconciliation process has been the activity of ZAKA – a voluntary rescue organization run by Haredim, which provides emergency first response medical attention at suicide bombing scenes and retrieves human remains found there to provide proper burial.

In December 2011, several separate incidents took place in rapid succession, creating a large public discussion about the position of Haredim in Israeli society, and leading to widespread incitement in both directions-seculars about Haredim, and Haredim about seculars.

In the course of the public and political debate that followed, the separate incidents merged into a single major debate with Haredim on one side and the secular world on the other side, which is continuing in full.

In 1988, it was estimated that there are between 40, 000 and 57, 000 Haredim in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, mostly Hasidim.

To the Haredim, however, the new Judaism of the Reformers was a movement that did away with the basic tenets of what they felt was authentic Judaism, a hoax to be disparaged and discouraged within their own communities.

As such Haredim have created extensive outreach programs, conducted out of a deep love and concern for the spiritual well-being of other Jews ; on a philosophical level, the generation and beliefs of these movements are condemned as stemming from the widespread denigration of religion of the 19th century.

The majority of UK Haredim descend from Eastern-European immigrants.

* Edah HaChareidis: rabbinical council of anti-Zionist Haredi groups in and around Jerusalem, including Satmar, Dushinsky, Toldos Aharon, Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok, Neturei Karta Mishkenos Horoim, Spinka, Brisk and a section of other Litvish Haredim.

Most Haredim contended that one cannot simultaneously be a philosopher and a true adherent of a revealed religion.

Agudah represents the vast majority members of the yeshiva world, sometimes known by the old label of misnagdim, as well as sectors of Hasidic Judaism ; all are commonly known as Haredim or " ultra-Orthodox " Jews representing Torah Judaism in North America.

Religious conflicts have erupted between the Haredi and religious Zionist communities, and also amongst the Haredim themselves.

According to a city councillor, there were no Haredim in Bet Shemesh before the 1990s.

In 2011 Haredim made up 40 % of the population, of which an estimated 50 or 60 families with great influence are militant.

She was a practicing Catholic and the couple respected each other's religious backgrounds, going to both church and synagogue, and celebrating Christmas and Hanukah.

Citing for example the " takana " of driving on Shabbat for the exclusive purpose of going back and forth to synagogue, critics note today few Conservative actually just drive to synagogue ( including the Rabbinical and Lay leadership ) while some do not drive at all.

However, the Tajik government ordered the local Jewish community to vacate the synagogue, which was going to be demolished for a new presidential palace.

They stopped going to restaurants, cafes and cinemas and the synagogue became the focal point of their social lives.

In 2004 the Board of Deputies of British Jews criticized Atzmon for saying, " I'm not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act.

His family is Jewish, although he noted to JVibe, " I think we were more Jewish culturally than we were religiously because after my brother's bar mitzvah, we stopped going to synagogue entirely.

Through Amos, God tells the people that he is going to judge Israel for its sins, and it will be a foreign nation that will enact his judgment.

Israel and Pakistan do not have diplomatic relations with each other, and Pakistan forbids its citizens from going to Israel by putting the legend ' This passport is valid for all countries of the World except Israel ' on Pakistani passports.

In his early ministry, Jeremiah was primarily a preaching prophet, going where the Lord directed him to preach oracles throughout Israel.

After World War II, a large portion of the few Jews that were left in Japan emigrated, many going to what would become Israel.

In the 1920s he decided to create a branch of his yeshiva in the Land of Israel, together with the dean Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, setting it up in Hebron and sending waves of hand-picked students there, culminating with his own permanent aliyah, " going up ", to the Holy Land two years before his passing.

According to a newspaper report of a lecture given by one of the leaders of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, at the Islamic University in Gaza City, when Yasser Arafat realized that peace talks with Israel weren ’ t going anywhere, he ordered Hamas to launch terror attacks against Israel.

Documents from 1958 reveal that the Gerhardsen's government knew that Israel was going to use heavy water supplied by Noratom for plutonium production, making it possible for Israel to produce nuclear weapons.

" He also stated that Israel and the United States ( specifically mentioning George W. Bush ) were going to start the next world war.

A transfer had stopped Walker's access to the data the Soviets wanted, but he was able to recruit Whitworth to keep the data flowing by telling him the data would be going to Israel, an ally of the United States, in order to soften the consideration of Whitworth engaging in espionage.

Later, when Whitworth realized the data was going to the Soviets instead of Israel, he nonetheless continued feeding it to Walker until his retirement from the Navy in 1983.

*" Wherever I go, I ’ m always going to Israel.

In April 1996, during a discussion about the restitution of Jewish communal property that had been seized during the Holocaust, WJC Secretary General Israel Singer, allegedly stated that " More than three million Jews died in Poland, and the Polish people are not going to be the heirs of the Polish Jews.

* Journalist Badih Chayban in an October 23, 2002 article in The Daily Star, wrote that Nasrallah said, " If they Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after  them worldwide.

Many anthropologists that studied with the Cherokees like James Adair tried to connect these groups to the Lost Tribes of Israel based on religious practices including going to water, but this form of historiography is mostly Christian or Mormon " wish fulfillment " rather than respectable anthropology.

It is taught: On the eve of Passover they hung Yeshu and the crier went forth for forty days beforehand declaring that " is going to be stoned for practicing witchcraft, for enticing and leading Israel astray.

Guttenplan, Stonestopped going to Israel in 1950, because the State Department wouldn ’ t give him a passport.

I'm going to Israel as a citizen journalist and a peace activist.

As a citizen journalist, I'm going to show my 20, 000 daily Iranian readers what Israel really looks like and how people live there.

" A 2006 Zogby poll on the Iraq war found that a nearly equal number of likely American voters ( 40 to 39 percent ) agreed or disagreed with the proposition that " the work of the Israel lobby on Congress and the Bush administration has been a key factor for going to war in Iraq and now confronting Iran.

Judge Richard Goldstone, writing in The New York Times in October 2011, said of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine that “ It is not a ‘ tribunal .’ The ‘ evidence ’ is going to be one-sided and the members of the ‘ jury ’ are critics whose harsh views of Israel are well known.