Religious & Secular in Israel

"I'm not saying that a woman can't be a pilot," he said regarding women's service, "But I think that giving a woman the profession of killing people is not good for the nation of Israel."

All three actions have already been approved by PM Netanyahu and his cabinet, calling them “an answer to terrorism.”

The most scandalous of the six indictment items against the former chief rabbi had to do with his selling conversions in the US

Now, it appears the spillover from Shas to Religious Zionism is becoming a gushing river.

The U.S. concept of separation of church and state means separating Jews from Judaism in Israel.

Alas, this dispute is not over a connection to God but over political turf, both regarding the Kotel and the conversions.

The bill in question died in a preliminary plenum vote last Monday, and the regulations will expire July 1

Almost half of the residents of the holiest city in the world are living under the poverty line.

The problem has to do with a gap of half a percent or one percent that could raise or lower several parties above and below the threshold – which is 3.25% of the overall vote.

Orbach is not interested in jumping into the fire in exchange for promises of a great slot and big ministerial office from Netanyahu.

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has announced that she intends to appeal the committee decision in the high court.

Rivlin has already leaked to the press his idea of bypassing the tedious and fruitless 2- to 3-week periods he would normally have given Netanyahu and Gantz – and move straight to throwing the process to the Knesset.

He may decide not to decide through the end of the Knesset’s summer session.

During the ceremony, Ambassador Friedman said the Shecheyanu blessing.

"On one side is Ben Gvir, on the other side Ehud Barak and his emissaries. In the middle, there is an entire nation that’s simply fed up with extremism."

“On behalf of the Australian Jewish Community, I implore you to reconsider this appointment until the investigation into Yaakov Litzman has concluded.”

The amended clause essentially deprives the police commissioner of his independence.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told his associates on Thursday: "I will decide on my political future only after the dissolution of the Knesset."

One of the evicted residents was a pregnant woman in her ninth month. Honenu recorded police grabbing her infant girl.

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In March of 2018, Rabbi Cherlow ruled that a genetically cloned pig or any other animal would be Kosher.

Minzer reminded his residents that he did not invite Bennett, Bennett invited himself, but even so, they should keep things proper.

It should be interesting to watch the Knesset becoming divided not along the traditional coalition vs. opposition divider, but as sharks vs. guppies.

The number of actual Haredi yeshiva students who answer the call to defend their country has remained about the same: a little more than 1,000 each year.

There's an anti-Semitic panic there, deep inside the man, born in a land with much more snow over much longer parts of the year.

Never before have Orthodox Jews been deposited with this much power and responsibility to do good and show secular Israeli Jews the power and beauty of our Torah.

MK Smotrich is traveling to Europe to share his own perception of the Matan Kahana conversion reform.

The world did not erupt in flames. Even the Muslims preferred to keep mum about it.

There is growing resistant from IDF soldiers who don't want to be ordered to take Jews from their homes in Amona.

At this point, it appears that the two leaders are on the verge of a breakup.