Religious & Secular in Israel

It may look sick to some, but it's all I've got.

Even after suffering shocks from a Taser gun, he refused to sign on the administrative order.

Those warnings are not trivial. They're also not all that real.

Hacohen demanded a quick response from the Rabbinate, or he would appeal to the Supreme Court.

There's still a court gag order on the nature of the favors the crime fighter received from the mystic.

The Israeli Chief Rabbinate has come to its sense before letting the damage get out of control.

An estimated 50,000 Jewish women are living in Arab villages and towns in Israel.

Israeli politicians make total fools of themselves occasionally.

No one in recent memory has elicited such harsh reactions from their political enemies as General Ariel Sharon.

At last a sane official in this bizarre tale of Haredim vs. Zionists.

No one beats the State Department in smoke and mirror acts (Defense concentrates more on dog and pony).

Originally, New profile was founded to help Arab youths avoid the draft.

Rabbi Avi Weiss is learning the hard way about playing nice with others.

It is wise to answer a wing-nut calmly, lest he recognizes that his assortment of horribly vicious lies gets to you.

The IDF is not waiting for 2017

Chabad emissaries would share the same status as those who do national service.

Some Russian-descent students just don’t understand that Israel is a Jewish state, Mahmoud Abbas notwithstanding.

"The question is not whether or not there's a partner – we need to mark a target and take action."

The holy conference is not yet a done deal.

You would think Minister of Science and Technology Yaakov Perry would understand that releasing terrorists insults bereaved families.

Haredi political leaders across the board called a court ruling for new elections in Beit Shemesh” corrupt,” “racist” and a sign of “dictatorship,” among...

The ultimate goal of the prime minister's current policy melange, as always, is political survival.

Lapid's insistence on legislation rather than a unilateral fix by his office has actually been hurting gays.

Something evil has taken over Haifa University.

The rabbinical leader of the Vishnitz Chas - the new Knesset law that Haredim must serve in the army just like every Jew in...

MK Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) is calling for Israelis to "come out of their indifference."

Israel’s Supreme Court has suspended a Rabbinical Court (Beit Din) order that a woman in divorce proceedings allow her baby son, now one year...

A mother in Israel has appealed to the country’s Supreme Court a rabbinical court ruling requiring her to circumcise her son. In her appeal filed...

My first reaction to this story was: El Al has its own rabbi?

A "Beit Hillel" rabbi reported his decision to turn on the electricity on a frozen Shabbat morning, only to be attacked by a "Tzohar" rabbi from his neck of the (snowy) woods.