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Haredi and Jews

Haredi Jews generally hold that even minhagim ( customs ) must be retained and existing precedents cannot be reconsidered.

Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.

Orthodox Jews who opposed the Haskalah formed Haredi Orthodox Judaism.

Sandi Simcha Dubowski's movie Trembling Before G-d ( 2001 ) documented the experiences of several homosexual Modern Orthodox and Haredi Jews.

Many Haredi or ultra-orthodox Jews are extremely scrupulous about the supervision of their matzah, as eating leavened products during Passover is liable to the extremely grave divine punishment of Kareth ( or a sin-offering if unintentional ); consequently many have the custom of baking their own matzo, or at least participating in some stage of the baking process.

As a general rule, Haredi Jews believe that when at all possible the law should be maintained as it was understood by their authorities at the haskalah, believing that it had never changed.

It is held virtually as a principle of belief among many Haredi Jews that halakhah never changes.

The use of Toanot is not restricted to any one segment of Orthodoxy ; In Israel they have worked with Haredi and Modern Orthodox Jews.

" The use of Toanot is not restricted to any one segment of Orthodoxy ; in Israel they have worked with Haredi and Modern Orthodox Jews.

Haredi Jews generally believe that the Torah today is no different from what was received from God to Moses, with only the most minor of scribal errors.

Haredi Jews consider their belief system and religious practices to extend in an unbroken chain back to Moses and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, and they regard non-Orthodox, and to an extent Modern Orthodox, streams of Judaism to be deviations from authentic Judaism.

One newspaper article estimated there were approximately 1. 3 million Haredi Jews as of 2011.

In recent years, there has been a process of reconciliation and a merging of Haredi Jews with Israeli society, for example in relation to employment.

While not compromising on religious issues and their strict code of life, Haredi Jews have become more open to the secular Israeli culture.

Haredi Jews, such as satirist Kobi Arieli, publicist Sehara Blau and politician Israel Eichler write regularly to leading Israeli newspapers.

Religious Zionists, mainly from the National Religious Party and publicly involved Haredi Jews are trying to bridge the gaps between secular Jews and Haredi Jews.

Between Haredi Judaism and National Religious or Religious Zionist Judaism, there is also a category of Orthodox Jews known as ' Hardalim ', who combine Religious Zionism with a stricter adherence to Halacha.

In 2000, there were 360, 000 Haredi Jews in the U. S. ( 7. 2 % of the total Jewish population ).

The numbers provided are inconclusive, given the tremendous birthrate of Haredi Jews in Wiliamsburg and Boro Park ; some estimate their population has doubled or tripled in the last 20 years.

Haredi and Europe

Ashkenazi Hebrew, originating in Central and Eastern Europe, is still widely used in Ashkenazi Jewish religious services and studies in Israel and abroad, particularly in the Haredi and other Orthodox communities.

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.

While there has been a Haredi presence in the U. S. since the start of the 20th century, the various groups began to emerge as distinctive communities only in the 1950s, with the influx of refugees from the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, who quickly filled leadership positions.

Category: Haredi rabbis in Europe

Category: Haredi Judaism in Europe

Category: Haredi rabbis in Europe

The arrival of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), known as the Baal Shem Tov (" Master the Good Name "), on the scene of Jewish history in Eastern Europe would herald the commencement of a sea change in what is known today as Haredi Judaism.

They were criticized by the Orthodox Judaism rabbis such as Samson Raphael Hirsch in Germany, and condemned, particularly by those known today as followers of Haredi Judaism, based mainly in Eastern Europe.

Category: Haredi rabbis in Europe

Category: Haredi Judaism in Europe

Category: Haredi rabbis in Europe

It is an almost exclusively Haredi town, with a very high percentage of immigrants from North America, Europe and South Africa.

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