Religious & Secular in Israel

Another Big Lie is exposed. Rav Ovadia favored giving up land for peace in 1993. But when the PA blew up the Oslo Accords 10 years later, the rabbi ruled, “Oslo is null and void. This is not the peace I meant.”

The prime minister was embarrassed during a shiva visit to the mourning children of the great man.

No matter how secular Israeli Jews may appear, the glow of Torah burns somewhere inside almost everyone. Peres was not pretending when he called Rav Ovadia his “teacher.” His tears were real.

Their attorney is certain that all of them will go free because of the way police violated their civil rights as minors.

No one was really hurt, and that's what really counts. Eat your heart out, Pew Institute, down here we're all Orthodox Jews…

The Women of the Wall are unhappy again. Yes, they can read from the Torah, but now that have no scroll. It was damaged by dampness, and WoW blames the government for lack of proper storage.

Our people in Jewish Home and Likud kept campaigning that they had to be in the coalition to influence government. They're in now, and what influence do they have?

There has been no reduction, much less elimination, of Israeli government support for foreign students attending local universities.

If you wish to mention him in your prayers, his name is Harav Chaim Ovadia Yosef ben Gorgia.

One rabbi has decreed that wearing an IDF uniform is tantamount to wearing a cross medallion.

Regarding the money his Chassidim are taking from the evil government, the Rebbe said it was their money.

A woman and a 9-year-old boy were among the more severely beaten.

If the Women of the Wall want equality with men, why don’t they try to perform the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall? Do tribal distinctions contradict “equality?” If so, who needs a Reform "rabbi?"

Arabs will now be free to take over the lands, while Jews will continue to be prohibited from even going there.

The IDF is nothing if not innovative. For soldiers who are on the front lines during the Yom Kippur Fast, the army suggests they suck on popsicles to keep their strength without violating to laws of the fast.

Israel has one life support. It starts with Yom Kippur.

‘Peace talks’ are an excuse to avoid THE issue - the Temple Mount – but the PA pushes it in media, warns of religious war. Housing Minister blesses at the site. Fatah terrorists warn of ‘violent Friday.”

Baltimore native Rabbi Avraham Leventhal, who moved to Beit Shemesh eight years ago after making aliyah, has tossed his hat in the political ring...

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has appointed the first woman as one of the members of the State Committee for the Appointment of Rabbinical Court...

In the Jewish State, religious Jews are kept by secular politicians on the command of Arab executives from setting foot on the holiest place on Earth.

It would probably be easier for the U.S. to make peace between the warring factions in Syria than between MK Porush and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid.

Moshe Leon didn't really know he was going to run for mayor of Jerusalem until the last minute.

Supreme Court: "The only thing being damaged is the rule of law."

The interview is an open announcement of an idea that has been in discussion within Jewish Home for some time now.

The Women of the Wall was so focused on Haredim that the girls forgot to ask Jordan for permission to pray in their own minyan. Now maybe the WoW will wake up to reality and pray on the Temple Mount.

Can it be a four-star hotel if you can smell the sewer system from your room?

It's a fascinating—and rare—case in which the rights of an individual to a speedy trial clash with the identity of the Jewish state.

Israel's media will now be repeating this mantra tirelessly, until the average Israeli will start whispering it in his sleep: "Get rid of Jewish Home, get lasting peace in 9 months."

Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival attracts array of international musicians.

"Today this affects Women of the Wall but tomorrow it will affect every Israeli and Jew around the world…."