Religious & Secular in Israel

Tens of thousands of Jews are expected to arrive at the Western Wall at 4:30 p.m.

Women of the Wall plan their monthly Rosh Chodesh prayers at the Kotel the second day of the month, with a Torah scroll. It’s okay to make up rules as they go along, so long as the Orthodox don’t make the rules.

Lapid’s sounds like Bibi on the “peace process.” He has no trouble raising a regressive tax that hurts the middle class. But give the Haredim a break from the draft? Not in this government. We’ll see.

Yesh Atid opposes both the Jewish Home candidate and the tricky legislation his appointment would require.

Rabbi David Lau committed to consulting with "giur breaker" Rabbi Sherman before any consultation on conversions.

They will be joined by MKs Tamara Zandberg and Michal Rozin.

The decision to play this kind of hardball came from Lapid.

A gag order has been imposed on reporting details of the investigation, which means police are making progress.

DuMont Schauberg's father, Kurt Neven DuMont, had been a member of the German Nazi party, and used his publishing house to promote Nazi propaganda.

Likud and Jewish Home circles say they've reached an understanding Haredi recruitment at age 21, Shas will not get Interior and Housing Portfolios.

Netanyahu has until Passover to follow the coalition agreement he signed with the ultra-Orthodox, or else.

Netanyahu demands that that Mahmoud Abbas recognize Israel as a Jewish state, but if it wants foreign journalists to do so, perhaps it should not call Rosh HaShanah-Yom Kippur-Sukkot “autumn holidays.”

“The Zionist Camp is afraid of [Tel Aviv Mayor] Ron Huldai and is abandoning the values of socialism to gain the votes of Tel Aviv’s residents.”

Leader of a group behind the lawsuit says the political pressure forces the government to ignore basic subjects such as math, English and computers.

A bill that would allow more rabbis to conduct conversions in Israel advanced in the Knesset. The coalition government-backed bill passed its first reading by...

Whom will our hapless Mass Communication expert accuse next of rejecting him for his controversial views?

Pres. Reuven Rivlin called on Israeli Arab families to allow their teens to volunteer for National Service.

Israeli female thai boxer Nili Block heads for the 2017 IFMA World Championship in Poland to compete in muaythai boxing after fighting Russia this weekend.

What appears to be a bill driven by the urgent need to block Reform expansion in Israel may really be a land grab on the part of the Haredim.

The President of HUC-JIR, sent The Jewish Press an angry letter suggesting there are Orthodox sources supporting patrilineal descent.

The project shows homemakers how the body requires different energies at different hours for maximum productivity.

The average Israeli eats 10 Krembos each season, according to Feldman Ice Cream.

Says promised referendum is a deception.

Minister Erdan told MK Yehuda Glick, "I think your victory, Yehuda, against those decrepit terrorists, is first of all the fact that more Jews are ascending the Temple Mount."

Moshe Feiglin unwittingly has brought out of the woodwork anti-Israel legislators from “peace partner” Jordan.

Liberman recommended that soldiers who are not sure about the rules of engagement ask their superiors.

'Let each stand as a unique holiday and let Tisha B'Av stand as the national day of mourning.'

Vandals spray painted the Jerusalem home of a long-time board member of the Women of the Wall (WOW) with vicious graffiti, the first time...

Against the background of the expiration on August 1 of the Tal Law, which attempted to manage Haredi recruitment, the Moetzes Gdolei HaTorah (Assembly of Torah Sages), the supreme rabbinical policy-making council of several Haredi organizations in Israel convened Monday night in Bnei Brak at the home of leader of the Lithuanian sector, Rav Steinman, to solidify the policy of military conscription.

A high-level government task force is aiming to bring more new immigrants into the high-tech work force, while training veteran Israelis to enter the field as well.