Until now, only Orthodox Jewish men in Israel have been allowed to take exams to become rabbis. After a long campaign, women ...

A nonprofit funded by the charity runs two camps in Schoharie County, plus Torah study groups, Jewish matchmaking services ...

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East ...

Israeli police clashed with protesters in Jerusalem on Monday (June 1), using water cannons and mounted units to disperse ...

Israel’s Haredim have escalated their protests against military service in recent weeks, underscoring growing divisions ahead ...

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis have demonstrated across the country against mandatory military enlistment.

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) blocked the entrance to West Jerusalem on Monday in protest against mandatory ...

What impact have American Jews had on the practice of Judaism in Israel? The answer to that question is the focus of Adam S. Ferziger’s latest book, Agents of Change: American Jews and the ...

CEO Yossi Levi said that efforts to draft haredim should focus on those not enrolled in a yeshiva, rather than on arresting ...

Emergency exits are not built after smoke fills a building. They are built while the hallways are still clear, the doors ...

When I first met Ben Baader more than a decade ago, I was doing interviews for a PhD dissertation on the lives of transgender Jews with an Orthodox background. Orthodox Jewish life is deeply gendered.

AP — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained in power for most of the past 17 years due in part to a tight alliance with ultra-Orthodox parties. But that alliance is tearing apart his governing ...