The Haredi Parties’ Political Dilemma
They might topple the government over conscription, but they’re unlikely to find better options.
June 10, 2025
Documenting and preserving the culture of East European Jewry.
This year, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding, which began with a meeting of a few dozen Jewish intellectuals in the then-Polish city of Wilno—now Vilnius, Lithuania but known always to Jews as Vilna. James Deutsch tells the organization’s story:
They might topple the government over conscription, but they’re unlikely to find better options.
And tried to end elected officials’ control of the police.
A new era for religious schools is arriving.
Actual genocides in Rwanda, Sudan, and elsewhere got no such coverage.
Documenting and preserving the culture of East European Jewry.