The bill to disperse the Knesset was voted down 53-61 at about 3 a.m., and as a consequence, opposition parties will not be ...

Opposition goes ahead with doomed vote in bid to strip leverage from Shas and UTJ, who had warned they would support toppling ...

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"I see myself as part of the broader Jewish community here in Israel," Rand explained. "I’m involved with the haredi community, the religious-national community—really, all segments.

On that Shavuot in 1533, Rav Yosef Karo (who later authored the Shulhan Arukh, Judaism’s most authoritative code of Jewish law) and Rav Shlomo Alkabetz (composer of the famous Lekha Dodi poem ...

The telegraph also played a role in Jewish life, especially around the holidays. Prewritten telegraph messages for Jewish holidays became common and were advertised in this paper. “Again this year an ...

The appeal to the tribunal also detailed an advertisement hung in Orthodox synagogues across the United States prior to Passover that directed Haredi Jews not to vote in the election or support ...

Did you ever stop and think about why we are called “Jews” and our religion “Judaism”? File this one under the category of things I took for granted until I decided to explore beyond the name.

The Haredi worldview, rooted in halacha, or Jewish law, sometimes clashes with Israel’s pluralistic, egalitarian values, Narkis says, foreshadowing a future where individual rights may be eroded.

Kleinhaus, 46, drew widespread criticism this week over his social media posts over the past two years about Jewish people and Israel — criticism that came while he and his family are being ...