"Without Torah students, we have no existence as a Jewish people. Without Torah students, the State of Israel cannot continue," Gafni commented, referring to the haredi draft law.

The wily politician that he is, Netanyahu will survive all attempts to dislodge his minority government and call for ...

In a lengthy interview with the ultra-Orthodox Kikar Hashabbat news site, the veteran Haredi politician — whose United Torah ...

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Abandoning it risks alienating their base, yet standing firm could bring down the government best positioned to achieve their ...

UTJ chairman and minister Yitzhak Goldknopf failed to provide a deadline for the re-negotiation of the haredi draft bill.

Arye Deri to remain in Netanyahu's security cabinet, despite Shas leaving government • Interior Minister Moshe Arbel to stay ...

Top Haredi authority Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein suggests that having cholent during the week isn't healthy and takes away ...

Taragin’s volume is not a conventional academic history of his mentor. Rather, it offers a compendium of warm and wise ...

The government, which enjoyed a comfortable 67-seat majority, is now reduced to a minority of 50 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. By JNS staff The Shas Party announced on Wednesday that it would leave ...

Two key ultra-Orthodox parties of the Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition have quit over the issue of military conscription. The matter has become increasingly contentious during the country’s prolonged wa ...

Rotter's arrest has been consistently extended, and several others who are close to him were apprehended for questioning as ...