Religious & Secular in Israel

The outgoing chairperson, Yacimovich, failed to win enough seats to become a viable alternative.

Netanyahu is vindicated from a truly unexpected direction: Martin Indyk, US Ambassador to Israel from 1995 to '97, who is not a big fan of Netanyahu, which is why his story is credible.

The first group of Palestinian prisoners with Jewish blood on their hands will be released next week.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto allegedly ordered a New York City police officer to arrest his top aide’s business rival.

Many of the participants in an emergency conference last night were adamant on the need to “give up our lives” over the preservation of Torah study, in face of a growing public push for Haredi military service. In the Israeli marketplace of ideas, two views competed this morning: "Don't push them too fast, or you'll get nothing but conflict" – versus "It's time for everybody to carry their fair share of the load." Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman was on the money when he accused retired Supreme Court President Beinisch of committing a hit-and-run…

Half the leftists feel ill at ease about expressing their views in Israel, while absolute majority of right-leaning Jews feel very or quite comfortable.

Hundreds of protesters riot in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood to protest the arrest of a rabbinical student who ignored his IDF draft notice.

Haredim could turn hate into love by serving in the army and showing non-religious soldiers the Light of Torah,

Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick talks peace in Istanbul with a state official and on A9TV with Islamic scholar Adnan Oktar.

All the boys were called up together, and recited – for the very first time – the blessing for being called to the Torah, with their interpreter.

Religious public schools have introduced a Temple education program. The Left are terrified...

According to the union, the Shabbat protocol will permit landings of already scheduled flights from abroad, but no takeoffs.

Approximately 41% of Jerusalem schoolchildren are Haredi, 38% are Arab.

Jewish Home MK Orit struk says Nitzan is known for his hostility to Jewish life in Judea and Samaria.

Israel's High Court approves a Jerusalem Day march through the Old City's Muslim Quarter.

"The problem of assimilation among American Jews is not only an American problem, it's our problem, too."

The U.S. concept of separation of church and state means separating Jews from Judaism in Israel.

Ashkelon launched a new separate gender beach this week, but only on land.

It appears Ha'aretz is willing to see Israeli high court justices' lives be put in jeopardy just to advance the paper's political ends. So much for tolerance and liberalism.

The Shalva Band is regularly invited to perform at cultural venues, at dignitary events, and with celebrity artists.

The first three Israeli babies born in 5777 entered the world at Ma'aynei HaYeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak.

Streisand loves Israel – she even visits the country once in a while. She gives lots of money. And she can’t resist a chance to preach about women’s rights in Israel but admits it is a "foreign land.”

The Canadian Lev Tahor cult of about 200 is headed by convicted felon Shlomo Helbrans, an Israeli returnee who left Israel with his followers in 1990.

Justice Mazuz said the sentence imposed on Pinto is the necessary minimum based on the appellant's actions.

The pig’s forehead was carved with a swastika.

Building a synagogue on Temple Mount is practically being urged by the U.S. State Dept.

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) on Thursday night tweeted that he would ask his faction to join the Haredi ultimatum to Netanyahu.

Weinstein decided there will be soccer league games in Israel this Shabbat, despite a ruling by Labor Court Judge Ariela Glitzr Katz to the contrary.

Refusing service is "a commandment one must obey even at the cost of their own life."

Anti-Semites torch a Holy Ark and scrawl swastikas at a popular Jerusalem synagogue; thieves steal a Torah scroll in Ramat HaSharon.