Religious & Secular in Israel

The slashing of government child subsidies is one of the primary reasons for the dramatic rise of working Hareidi women.

Netanyahu may have been clever or lucky, but Lieberman was, without a doubt, brilliant.

He refuses to consider Reform Jews as "Jews" but "welcomes them with love and joy" to be just like him.

"I was thinking of the path of the Torah and the mission of returning to the Chief Rabbinate the path of Rav Abraham Isaac Kook zt'l."

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.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is functioning as an agent of U.S. foreign policy and Palestinian expansion.

Amsalem suggested that the clash over the railroad works over the past two Shabbat days was mostly about politics.

"We have established a special area for women to drink and rest. There are 12 diaper changing and nursing rooms with attendants on hand to help."

During his weekly talk, the Ashlag Rebbe, Rabbi Simcha Avraham Halevy, challenged politicians who promote the notion of an equal burden, describing them as imbeciles. He proposed a solution to the inequality: "Let every secular boy be forced to bear the burden of defending the homeland of Israel and fulfill his national duty to study Torah and keep the mitzvot." He also said, "The nation of Israel did not survive our brutal history by the deterrence of the IDF, nor by the might of the State of Israel, but by the merit of the study of Torah."

The Women in Green harshly condemn the latest demolition -- #36 -- of the Hazzon David synagogue near Kiryat Arba.

Israel's Supreme Court and the Attorney General are showing a kind of zeal one normally attributes to religious fanatics. Rather than pursuing a pragmatic, financial compensation to the claimant, as is normal in similar civil cases, both the high court and the AG appear hell bent on getting Justice. The Likud rank and file are preparing to do war with these two enemies of Israel's democracy.

The Knesset has driven the last nail in the once holy coffin of changing the clocks twice a year according to the timing of Passover and Yom Kippur. Daylight Time will remain until the end of October.

“What better way to reconnect people with nature than by encouraging them to get out and get their hands dirty."

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky will release his full plan for a compromise among religious groups at the Western Wall in two weeks, Haaretz...

Police also arrested 10 men who danced and waved Israeli flags.

The Temple Mount is closed to Jews and others for the next 10 days for Islamic observances.

Ephraim HaLevy, former chief of the Mossad, has committed himself to a program which will help certify the Jewish identities of thousands of immigrants,...

JERUSALEM – As tens of thousands of Jews jammed Jerusalem’s Western Wall Plaza on Tisha B’Av to mourn the destruction of the First and Second Temples, leading rabbinical and political figures from Israel’s national religious and haredi streams found themselves embroiled in a war of words over a number of issues that in some instances spurred violent street clashes.

"Better to give up the Yiddish and let everyone understand the material, rather than maintain the tradition and lose the students' attention."

It should be noted that those Haredi schools that rejected the government-imposed of a Core Curriculum did so not necessarily because they object to teaching their students many of the subjects on the list.

Radical Haredim rioted in Jerusalem and in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, on Monday because of construction at sites that they said contain Jewish...

Police prepared for the monthly event, and from a law-and-order perspective it made perfect sense.

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

Israel's Counter-Terrorism Bureau is warning citizens not to travel to Tunisia, especially during Lag B'Omer.

Qadri was informed the conversion would not be recognized because it was carried out by a rabbi who is independent from the state network of Rabbinate authorities authorized to conduct conversions.

“Any plan to resettle members of the Bedouin community must be developed with leaders of that community rather than be forced upon them.”

"Rav Ovadia is willing to lose both chief rabbis" and not collaborate with those who "stuck a knife in our back."

Glick should beware, though, of his newly acquired power, and avoid delivering to the unschooled messages they cannot truly comprehend.

Israeli lawmaker David Rotem offered a full apology for reportedly saying the Reform movement “is not Jewish.”

The MK also compared the maneuvering of the high court to the way the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917.