The Israeli Supreme Court Tuesday ordered the country’s government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students into the country’s military, dealing a major political blow to ...

Ohad Zwigenberg/Associated Press By Aaron Boxerman Reporting from Jerusalem Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, a decision ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews must be conscripted into the Israeli army, the supreme court has said, in a ruling that could fracture Benjamin Netanyahu’s Right-wing governing coalition. All Israeli Jews ...

The Israeli supreme court ruling overturns a decades-long military exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews that became a point of tension as their population rose to about 13 percent of Israel’s total.

What is a Jew? A member of a religion, a culture, a nation — or all three? That was the old and perhaps unanswerable question faced last week by the Israeli Supreme Court. Understandably ...

Israeli Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf resigned on Thursday over the government’s failure to pass a law exempting ...

The Supreme Court on Monday revived a quest by the family of a Holocaust survivor to recover an impressionist painting worth tens of millions of dollars that was looted by the Nazis on the eve of ...

he concluded that the state’s small Jewish population made the idea impractical. Could a favorable Supreme Court ruling pave the way for religious charter schools in other states, including ...