One of the most damaging confusions in Israel’s current public debate is the assumption that religious moral seriousness and ...

Jews in Israel have a take-it-or-leave-it choice in religion: be either completely Orthodox or thoroughly secular. Consequently, about one-third observe only the high holidays and another third ...

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, discusses the challenges ...

(The Conversation) — Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a new twist. This time it was Yitzhak Yosef, one of Israel’s two chief ...

Israel seems to be at war with itself. For two weeks the Hebrew media have been dominated by street clashes between Jews arguing viciously over such matters as sleeve length and bus seating, which in ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and ensuing war have changed the way many young Jewish Israelis feel about their religious and spiritual lives, according to a new study by ...

Haredi parties battle for control of capital's religious bureaucracy, leading to boycotts of coalition legislation as form of ...

National and royal flags fly outside religious sites in Thailand, Turkey, the U.S. and Israel. (Clockwise from top left: Vera Tikhonova, Westend61, Samuel Corum and Paul Souders, all via Getty Images) ...

Former President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Monday that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats “hates their religion” and hates “everything about Israel,” again playing into an ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Following are facts about how the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accommodate Orthodox Jews. * Most Israeli Jews are drafted into the IDF at 18, with men serving for three years and ...