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Two liberal American Jewish groups have called on the US government to revoke Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s visa and prevent him from visiting...
After fiery debate, MKs tweak legislation to give hospital directors more control over how to keep leavened goods out during Jewish holiday, rather...
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the US Union for Reform Judaism, delivered an onstage address at Saturday night’s mass demonstration against the...
Jewish Agency Chairman Doron Almog called on American Jewish leaders to “make your voice heard” in the ongoing, rancorous debate over the...
Opposition leader Yair Lapid responded to an open letter sent by the Jewish Federations of North America to him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Clashes broke out at the Western Wall on Wednesday morning, including between Knesset members, as hardline Jews blocked and harassed supporters of the...
Reservists and veterans of Israel’s submarine fleet came out strongly against the coalition’s planned judicial overhaul on Tuesday, warning in an...
The Jewish Federations of North America warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday against his government’s plan to legislate an...
The international Conservative-Masorti movement on Sunday called on the government to halt its planned judicial overhaul, warning that parts of it...
Two contentious religion-and-state bills were approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, one forbidding bringing leavened goods...
The government on Thursday told the High Court of Justice that it was still working to fix and improve the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, in...
Fewer and fewer Jewish Israelis are marrying through the rabbinate, according to new data recently obtained by a religious activist group, which...
Dozens of Orthodox religious leaders on Tuesday called on all political parties to meet and consider President Isaac Herzog’s proposed compromise on...
A delegation from the United Hatzalah emergency response organization to Turkey is cutting short its mission and returning to Israel early over...
A woman stripped down to a bathing suit at the Western Wall on Sunday morning in an apparent protest of a contentious bill that would criminalize...
MARASH, Turkey — Lt. Col. (res.) Golan Landsberg is an old hand at search-and-rescue work, having taken part in nearly a dozen Israeli missions...
MARASH, Turkey — When her fourth-floor apartment came crashing down to the ground before dawn on Monday morning, the 15-year-old girl inside became...
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — The devastation inflicted upon the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş by the powerful earthquake on Monday is almost...
A delegation of dozens of Israeli doctors, medics, rescue operators and psychotrauma specialists took off for southern Turkey on Tuesday afternoon to...
The head of the American Jewish community’s umbrella organization on Thursday said he was greatly concerned by the growing division in Israel,...
A Russian shell struck a 113-year-old synagogue in the eastern Ukrainian city of Huliaipole, damaging the building, local media reported Tuesday. A...
Less than a third of Jewish Israelis say they have significant trust in the Chief Rabbinate, according to recent survey data from the Israel Democracy...
At first, Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig was just looking for some answers to a few questions he’d been asked about Jewish law and mental health. That...
The northern city of Harish canceled the screening of a Holocaust documentary that was meant to be held in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on...
Lawmakers, rabbis and activists debated the Law of Return and the government’s plans to restrict it on Wednesday night, with even supporters of the...
Israelis are deeply split, primarily along religious lines, about a proposal to alter the Law of Return, the 1970 legislation that largely sets...
Over 600 people gathered in Jerusalem’s Heichal Shlomo synagogue this week as part of a nascent grassroots movement seeking to give voice to an...
Members of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party submitted a bill Monday to ban leavened goods, or hametz, from hospitals during the Passover...
While cheeseburgers — made with dairy cheese and beef burgers — are unlikely to appear on kosher restaurant menus anytime soon, a relatively...
A Knesset committee on Wednesday debated the causes and possible solutions for a major shortage of instructors for state-run Hebrew schools, or...
David Ben Moshe, a Black American convert to Judaism, obtained Israeli citizenship on Thursday, bringing to a close a five-year struggle against...
The appearance of a Palestinian flag at Saturday night’s demonstration against the government’s plans to dramatically reduce the power and...
Deputy Minister Avi Maoz said he planned to involve the Chief Rabbinate in determining the Jewishness of people from the former Soviet Union applying...
Rabbi Shimon Baadani, one of the founders and spiritual leaders of the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox Shas party, died on Wednesday morning after an...
The Knesset’s immigration committee convened on Monday for the first time in two years, hearing from experts on a wide variety of issues, notably...
Doron Almog, bereaved brother and father, former IDF general, and current head of the Jewish Agency, is looking to bring the Jewish people together at...
Employee taken to hospital after being hit in the face; police bring suspects in for questioning
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s president on Tuesday vowed to avenge the killing of the country’s top general on the third anniversary of...
A fringe religious group on Monday night asked newly installed National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for permission to perform the Passover...
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri is planning a new policy that will see new immigrants required to prove they’ve settled in Israel in order to be...
The heads of top international Zionist groups on Sunday sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning him against his incoming...
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population is currently at 1.28 million or 13.5 percent of the 9.45 million total national population, according to an...
An Israeli tourist was stabbed and seriously wounded at a train station in Rome on Saturday night, local Italian media reported. According to the...
Michael Malkieli also vows to expand powers of rabbinic courts; Shas leader Aryeh Deri says party paid a political price to get the ministry
Jerusalem’s Sephardic chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar, said Sunday that it was “unbearable” that an openly gay man, Likud lawmaker Amir Ohana, was made...
In one of the first acts of the incoming coalition, newly installed Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli on Thursday delayed the...
Likud lawmaker Amichai Chikli was named the next Diaspora affairs minister on Wednesday night, giving him a modest budget but great symbolic...
As Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, causing regular power and water outages, Jewish groups have been working to...
Tens of thousands of people, the overwhelmingly majority of them Orthodox men, traveled to a small community outside Ashkelon on Monday to pay final...
Rabbi Chaim Druckman, a leading, if controversial, figure in the conservative end of the religious Zionist movement, died on Sunday after contracting...