When the Tel Aviv light rail opened in the summer of 2023, it shaved travel time from the city’s southern neighborhoods to the haredi Orthodox city of Bnei ...

Beit Yaakov in Jerusalem is facing backlash after reports emerged that it will segregate students of Middle East and North ...

A Haredi daily published an editorial comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to historic figure Churchill, who defeated the Nazis but lost the general election at home.The post Israeli co ...

The Israeli army will issue 54,000 draft orders to Ultra-Orthodox men, ending a decades-long exemption and triggering ...

The conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews is a highly contentious issue for Netanyahu’s government. Formed in December 2022, ...

The committee decided to debate the proposal once again in a month’s time. The government’s Ministerial Legislation Committee ...

All 54,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews eligible for military service will be called on to arrive for actual service by July 2026. The ...

Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she ...

The haredi (ultra-Orthodox) party United Torah Judaism announced on Wednesday that it considered itself released from prior agreements and that it would consult with its spiritual leadership ...

The first 1,000 of 7,000 new draft orders to male members of the ultra-Orthodox community were sent out by the military Sunday, prompting Haredi demonstrators to block the Route 4 highway in ...

Ever since the state of Israel’s founding in 1948, ultra-Orthodox Jews – those who take the strictest approach toward following Jewish law, and are now around 14% of the population – have ...