‘It literally criminalizes non-Orthodox prayer,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the U.S ...

(56 to 47) in favor of a preliminary reading of a bill in the Knesset, introduced by Knesset member Avi Maoz, who is part of the far-right Noam party. The bill, which would imprison anyone for up to ...

Israel’s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would put the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate in ...

The power of prayer is not to be underestimated. And if you think it is about asking God for something, read on ...

The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church urged special prayers amid ongoing West Asia tensions. Catholicos of the East, Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, emphasized the need for world peace during Holy ...

In the debate over Western Wall prayer, the traditional case deserves a hearing.

The task for implementing the liturgical reform decreed by the Second Vatican Council fell to Pope St. Paul VI. The same ...

Tal Ben-Zvi says the Stevens Institute of Technology denied religious accommodations and retaliated after he filed a federal Jew-hatred complaint.The post Orthodox Jewish professor alleges religious d ...

The bill passed by a margin of 56-47 and will now be discussed in Knesset committee meetings. It will still need to undergo ...

Diaspora leaders warn criminalizing non-Orthodox prayer at the Wall will exclude many from Judaism's holiest site, violate World Zionist Organization resolutions The post Progressive Jews sound alarm ...

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A bill that would strengthen the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate’s control over the Western Wall, introducing steep penalties for ...