A partnership with popular lecturer Rabbi Shneur Ashkenazi brings immediately relevant messages to Torah Studies, the ...

The wording in the proposal emphasizes Torah study as “a fundamental value in the heritage of the Jewish people and in the ...

The haredi-backed Basic Law passed its final Knesset votes after weeks of coalition tensions and warnings that it could encourage draft evasion.

Defying outcry from legal officials, the IDF, reservists and opposition parties, coalition secures final approval of flagship Basic Law, which aims to help enable ongoing broad exemption of ...

For Rav Kook, it was axiomatic that the Jewish soul and the Torah are a match made in heaven. In his book analyzing the essential nature and value of Torah study, Orot HaTorah, he categorically ...

In the Torah, the Hebrew word for the Five Books of Moses, there is not a single reference to a kippah, the circular piece of ...

The challah had been broken and the blessing for Torah study had been chanted when the rabbi posed a question: Which modern-day prophets have been ostracized for sharing a message that no one wanted ...

In Israel today, the Haredi question is no longer a marginal sociological issue. It sits at the center of our politics, our economy, and our social fabric: mass draft exemptions, low male workforce ...

The agreement is expected to allow the bill to advance in the Knesset's House Committee ahead of its final second and third readings after previous coaltion objections to wording.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish sector has been protesting over the attempts to draft young haredi men into the military. (photo ...

As the High Court hears a petition on the law on the arrests of draft dodgers, the Shas Council of Torah Scholars ruled that ...