Religious & Secular in Israel

If the person requesting help is female, it would be more halachically correct that she be treated by another female than by a male.

It comes down to whether or not individuals in appointed high office are at liberty to go out of their way to criticize the government from which they draw their power.

Secular and Haredi Jews prefer separate neighborhoods; Ashkenazi and Sephardic, Rightist and leftist, live well together.

“Women denied a divorce may as well be dead,” MK Revital Swid said.

The Los Angeles-born woman, whose daughter was spat on by extreme Haredim in Beit Shemesh, has given up her fight for religious tolerance and leaves the city , but she blames modern orthodox Jews.

"We are Jews, living in a Jewish state," Gabai said, adding, "I think one of the Labor Party's problems is that it has distanced itself from that."

As far as the half million Israelis living in Judea and Samaria—most of whom are Jewish Home voters—the referendum bill leaves them in the cold.

Tibi turned to the committee members from Yesh Atid and told them, "Do you think it's raining? They are spitting in your face, you at Yesh Atid."

Deri promised: "We will overthrow this government very quickly."

Apparently there is a conference planned for Habayit Hayehudi in September, where Rosen wanted to lead the forum on technology and halakha – but was refused because of his jittery track record of slamming doors behind his back every few months.

Fewer than 20 people attended Bar-Lev's rally, but the vehemence with which he attacked one of the most common practices of IDF soldiers, religious and secular alike, suggests the gap between right and left in Israel is stretching even wider.

Captain Rabbi Avrumi Levin: In case the Temple is rebuilt, consider this [Tisha B'Av] document null and void.

Since 2005, the annual growth rate in Judea and Samaria has been 5 percent.

The new law that the Knesset passed Monday night to allow couples to register for marriages wherever they want will help prevent civil marriages...

Israel has a double standard for law enforcement when it’s Jews who are yelling “Allahu Akbar” in Jerusalem.

"The turnover government will be elected only if out of 900,000 eligible Arab voters, 800,000 will show up."

"It would have been great if this issue had been resolved amicably between the sides rather than by the court."

PM Netanyahu urges the residents of Amona and those who stand with them not to turn violent at the evacuation. He urged parents not to involve young children or teens.

Rabbi Lopatin said, “May Hashem give you all strength to continue this age old, noble struggle which God promises us will end in victory.”

Tzipi Livni needs a law that says she can't release killer prisoners like she needs a hole in the head, but you can't say "hole in the head" in Israel – the term may be Rabinized.

The Yesh Atid leader was quick to take advantage of the coalition crisis and arrived with signs and activists at the Tel Aviv train station, where became apparent that one of them, who looked spot-on Haredi, wasn't.

Despite the rector's warning, Goldblum said that if a student enters his classroom wearing an Im Tirtzu T-shirt, he would refuse to continue teaching and "call security."

Smotrich explained that "someone leaked some old recording of mine from a long time ago."

Habayit Hayehudi headed by Naftali Bennett receives 11 seats in the new poll, compared to 8 in the current Knesset.

Eli Cohen is now the nationally-known face of electoral integrity and honesty in Israel.

Finance Committee Chairman Moshe Gafni and Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri also oppose the Agudath Israel ministers' demand.

Almost three out of every four Israeli Jews (72%) think that even with a stable peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Jerusalem should remain united as the capital of Israel.

The most combative among the incoming team was undoubtedly the next Minister of Religious Services (Bennett's old job) Matan Kahana from Yamina.

For 135 days R remained in jail and refused to release Orly, conditioning her freedom on impossible financial demands.

Having concluded phase one of their attack, presenting IDF soldiers as war criminals to an eager world, BtS now zeroes in on the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to settle the entire Biblical Land of Israel.